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Deborah Greenhouse

@greenhousemd.bsky.social
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Pediatrician and advocate for children everywhere. Not willing to give up on the hope of a better and safer world for children to grow up in. #MedSky #PedSky

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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wearing my Elizapalooza shirt today to celebrate the FDA approval of the first gene therapy to treat Sanfilippo Syndrome Type A! 12 years in the making! Next step- Advocating for newborn screening to identify these children as neonates and offer treatment when it can make the most difference!
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My Podcast Interview Debut on Runaway Country with Alex Wagner. So grateful to have the opportunity to spread the word about public health, misinformation, disinformation and the importance of real science to an audience far beyond my exam rooms and far beyond South Carolina. Thanks,Runaway Country!
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Measles Cases SURGING As Kids Go Back To School
YouTube video by Runaway Country with Alex Wagner
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Three 2 month well visits today: Vaccine conversations with all 3 families. All 3 asked if my practice is following the AAP vaccine schedule or the Executive Order schedule. All 3 wanted their child to follow the AAP schedule. All 3 wanted to follow science and not politics. There is hope here.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today was Dr. Annie Andrews' Birthday. And she spent it working to win her seat in the US Senate. I know Dr. Andrews. She would spend every working hour in the Senate working for people in SC. Let's all help to put her there.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@bsky.app Proud to collaborate with Dr. Martha Edwards and so grateful for the expertise and assistance of @emilymayersc.bsky.social on this opinion piece. Families deserve valid, evidence-based information to make the best decisions for their children. www.ms.now/opinion/cdc-...
ms.now
Opinion | We are South Carolina pediatricians fighting for parents to get accurate info about vaccines
Martha Edwards and Deborah Greenhouse: Vaccines do not cause autism. We need a CDC that states that as truth.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Proud to be quoted by the APNews with my hero, Dr @drmmcedwards.bsky.social. We are pediatricians. If the health and safety of children are threatened, we will step up and we will speak out.
apnews.com
Too young for the MMR shot, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaks
Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in measles outbreaks like the one in South Carolina, which is the largest the U.S. has seen in decades.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Ralph Abraham, the No. 2 official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently told reporters that losing the measles elimination status would be the “cost of doing business.” True. If your business is encouraging the resurgence of preventable diseases.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The AAP’s vaccine schedule considers when children are most likely to be exposed to contagious diseases and when children’s immune systems will respond best. This timing has kept millions of kids healthy, so they can focus on growing, playing, and learning.   www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The House of Medicine stands with science. And with the AAP. Proud to be a member and a leader of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Standing up for children. Standing up for science. Standing up for truth.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I went to med school at @EmoryMedicine. Up the street from the CDC. I was in awe of the CDC and those who worked there to promote science and to protect health. Today, the CDC has fallen. In the name of conspiracy theory and disinformation. And I am crushed.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Pediatrician here. Misinformation and disinformation don't become facts just because the CDC posted them. Numerous studies have refuted any link between vaccines and autism. Zero studies have shown any link between vaccines and autism. Real science matters.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"Together", the sculpture welcoming AAP members and visitors to the American Academy of Pediatrics mothership. I know I am home when I see these figures. I am safe. I am with people who have the best interests of children at heart. I can count on these people. Thank you, @ameracadpeds.bsky.social.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
VAERS database reports will likely be used by RFK Jr to try to show a link between COVID vaccines and child deaths. But VAERS reports are neither data nor research. They are reports that anyone can submit on anything at any time in any place. They do not and cannot show causation.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A conservative activist was shot in Utah today. Children were shot at school in Colorado today. Both events were horrific and should never have happened. But we can't react to one as a great national tragedy and remain virtually silent about the other. That is what I see happening right now.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Please read this essay to the end. These are the previous directors of the CDC who served under both Republican and Democratic presidents. If you don't believe me, please believe them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Pretty cool that RFK Jr, with no medical education or experience, can diagnose "mitochondrial challenges" or "inflammation" just by looking at children. I can't do that after med school and many years in pediatric practice. Then again, maybe he's just lying....again.
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RFK Jr, who doesn’t have a medical degree, says he can diagnose children just by just looking at them
Kennedy has often raised concerns about the increasing juvenile diabetes and autism rates
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Today's PSA from your friendly neighborhood, science based, evidence driven pediatrician: If someone says they are going to find and announce the "certain" cause of a medical or developmental condition by a specific date, that's not science. That's propaganda, regardless of what their "finding" is.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
And RFK Jr is now threatening pediatricians with liability if they follow evidence based vaccine recommendations. He is threatening the people who spend their lives protecting the health and safety of children. We are living in a dystopian alternate reality. www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...
medpagetoday.com
RFK Jr. Warns Docs of Liability if They Stray From CDC on Vaccines
'Misleading,' expert says
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My opinion piece in The State on the defunding of mRNA vaccine research. Actions have consequences and the consequences of this one will extend far beyond access to current mRNA vaccines.
thestate.com
How South Carolina will suffer from mRNA vaccine research funding cuts | Opinion
Pediatrician Deborah Greenhouse writes that South Carolina is at risk because of the U.S. government’s decision to defund almost $500 million in mRNA vaccine research funding.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
As the US hits a catastrophic milestone with the highest number of measles cases since the disease was declared eradicated, it is a step in the right direction to see the AAP and others stand up to say that this is not OK and we won't pretend that it is. publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...
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AAP suing HHS over vaccine policy ‘because we believe children deserve better’
The AAP and other leading medical groups are suing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for making unilateral, unscientific changes to federal vaccine policy they say are an “assault on science, public...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Today's Call to Action: I can't make it any simpler than this. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY! Call this morning and ask them to vote no on the Big, Horrifically Bad Bill which will strip health care and healthy food from millions of children and families. Ask them to protect children.
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AAP calls on U.S. House to reject cuts to Medicaid, SNAP
The budget reconciliation legislation cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid, and AAP leaders said it will harm children, families and communities.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott just voted to take health care access away from many of my patients and their families. They voted to strip health care from thousands of their own constituents. I'm having a really hard time coming to grips with that.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025
RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication? RFK JR: I did not fact check RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The Zombie "ACIP" meeting this week will include a presentation on Thimerosol which cites a study on the dangers of vaccines containing Thimerosol. Except oops, the study didn't exist. Welcome to "ACIP" 2025.
yahoo.com
Exclusive-US CDC vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says
(Reuters) -A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a ...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We had hoped that the Senate version of the "Big Beautiful Bill" would reign in the devastating cuts to Medicaid that put children and children's hospitals at great risk. Instead, the Senate bill makes these cuts more catastrophic. This is an all hands on deck moment. Reach out to your Senators now!
nytimes.com
Senate Bill Would Make Deep Cuts to Medicaid, Setting Up Fight With House
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
As a South Carolina pediatrician who has fought against some of the awful legislation this guy has supported I just want to remind you: Not trans. Not a drag queen.
southcarolinapublicradio.org
Republican SC Rep. RJ May charged with distributing child sex abuse material
South Carolina Rep. RJ May, a Lexington County Republican who cofounded the House Freedom Caucus, was indicted on federal charges of distributing child sex abuse material. Following indictment, House ...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This one is a gut punch. Four ACIP members receive termination notices. Maybe there is nothing nefarious here. Maybe this is just a clerical issue. Maybe science can somehow still prevail. But if not, this is our all hands on deck moment. Our nation's health stands in the crossfire.
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Four ACIP Members Informed of Role Termination Amid Federal Vaccine Policy Changes - GeneOnline News
Four members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization […]
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Today I #WearOrange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day. And today I will talk to families about firearm safety and I will give out free gun locks- just like I do every other day. So please store all firearms locked and unloaded with the ammunition locked elsewhere.Thank you!
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
As we all share in the political comedy playing out today, I'd like to take a serious moment to remind everyone in South Carolina that @drannieandrews.com is running for US Senate. And she actually truly wants to help people in South Carolina.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
When in doubt, lie. And if you don't have the data to support your lies, simply make up the studies and the data as well. It's the MAHA way. #MedSky #PedSky
yahoo.com
'Make America Healthy Again' report updated to remove nonexistent studies
The White House downplayed questions about its flagship report on children's health, but edited the document Thursday after authors listed in the paper confirmed it cited studies that do not exist.But...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
First you ban the funding for the scientific research. Then you ban the products resulting from the scientific research. Finally, you ban the scientists. I used to wonder how we would all survive 4 years of this. Now I understand that many of us won't. wapo.st/43sc0Bz
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The "Big, Beautiful Bill" is anything but. This bill includes devastating cuts to Medicaid and SNAP causing children to lose access to both health care and healthy food. Please reach out to your Senators and ask them to demand changes to this legislation. #PedSky #MedSky
aap.org
AAP Statement on House Passage of H.R. 1
The legislation passed in the U.S. House of Representatives early this morning, H.R. 1, includes sweeping policies that would harm the health of children and families. To invest in our country’s futur...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I am a pediatrician. Completed a residency. Board certified. I have practiced for over 30 years. Treated thousands of kids. Many years of local, state and federal advocacy work. I do not feel qualified to be Surgeon General. But somehow Casey Means is?
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Dr. Offit says it better than I ever could. Read the letter. Contact your representatives and senators. Speak up for children. We may not get another chance. carhttps://open.substack.com/pub/pauloffit/p/an-open-letter-to-senator-william?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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An Open Letter to Senator William Cassidy (R, La)
RFK Jr. is scheduled to testify in front of Senator Cassidy’s HELP Committee on May 14. Here is the letter I sent to him on May 1, 2025.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
In my now daily quest to combat vaccine misinformation and disinformation, I give you this great article from @HealthyChildren. Data matters. Science matters. Disinformation harms children. #PedSky #MedSky
healthychildren.org
Vaccine Ingredients: Frequently Asked Questions
All vaccines contain antigens. Antigens make vaccines work. They prompt the body to create the immune response needed to protect against infection. Antigens come in several forms. The form used in a v...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We have a safe and effective vaccine that gives 97-98% protection with 2 doses. But sure, let's spend millions studying treatments for a potentially fatal disease rather than promoting the established, effective prevention for that disease. #PedSky #MedSky
cbsnews.com
RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims
Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
20 minute conversation today trying to combat newly minted vaccine hesitancy. 20 minutes spent discussing the difference between research/data/science and rhetoric/propaganda/disinformation. This is pediatrics. This is not sustainable. And that scares me.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
And in a bit of good news for those who favor science over misinformation and disinformation... #PedSky #MedSky
science.org
Vaccine experts band together to counter U.S. government misinformation
Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is the definition of a complete and catastrophic public health failure. This is public health in the United Stares, circa 2025.
wired.com
Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years
A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Irony: Scrolling through X, seeing post after post of anti-vaccine rhetoric. On the same day that my pediatric practice forms its first-ever Measles Task Force. Our children and grandchildren will never understand how we allowed this to happen. 2025. Making Measles Great Again
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
And here you have it. Using RFK Jr logic, we now have the cause of autism. As organic food purchases have skyrocketed, so have autism diagnoses. Thus, buying organic food causes autism. And we didn't even have to wait for September. #PedSky #MedSky
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The draft budget plan drastically slashes health care, early childhood education and mental health services for poor children. By the way, it also slashes teen pregnancy prevention programs. Am I the only one who sees the obvious problem with that? #PedSky #MedSky
apnews.com
Draft budget plan proposes deep cuts across federal health programs
A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nation’s top health agency, eliminating some public health programs entirely and serving as a roadmap ...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Well, this tracks right on point. Because measles wasn't contagious enough, now we have doctors actually helping to spread it... #PedSky #MedSky #Measles
apnews.com
Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer
A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Rob...
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In 2019-2020 kindergarten vaccine rates were 95% nationwide. In 2023-2024 vaccine rates had decreased to below 93% nationwide. Using RFKjr logic, with his assumption that vaccines cause autism, our autism rates should have decreased nationwide. They haven't. Why could that be? #PedSky #MedSky
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Today I treated kids who needed Medicaid for: Asthma meds. Eczema meds. ADHD meds. Physical Therapy. Immunizations. Eyeglasses. Speech Therapy. Seizure meds. And so much more. Medicaid is a lifeline for children. Let's not cut that lifeline.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
RFK Jr plans to push the CDC to stop recommending that communities add Fluoride to drinking water, despite solid evidence that it prevents dental disease, the #1 chronic disease of children in the US. But he fired the whole CDC oral health team last week. So who exactly is he planning to push?
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Sick visit for a 2 year old with a cough. Dad: Shows me a photo of a bottle of cough medicine they have been giving. Points to the word "homeopathic" and asks what it means. Me: It means "Waste of Money." #PedSky #MedSky
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
NO. JUST NO. We should not be promoting or glorifying the treatment of a preventable disease. We should be preventing that disease. There should be no measles deaths in the US in 2025. Measles vaccine prevents measles. That should be the unambiguous, science-driven message.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
So here's a thought: How about doing an actual analysis to see where the "waste" really is before randomly gutting programs like lead surveillance that actually save children's lives? Could we maybe do that? Asking for millions of children. #MedSky #PedSky
abcnews.go.com
RFK Jr. announces HHS reinstating some programs, employees cut by mistake
On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News some programs would soon be reinstated because they were mistakenly cut.
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Deborah Greenhouse @greenhousemd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
13 year well visit. (with permission) Discussing vaccines- 13- Why don't people just listen to the smart people who have studied vaccines and science for their whole careers? The kids will save us. If we can make it long enough for that to happen.
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