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Jared Boyce

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MD-PhD @UWMSTP #BlackInNeuro Mental health, children’s rights advocate. 🇹🇹🎻 Metalcore. Horror. Anime. He/Him @Dartmouth @BrownUniversity

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"The Japanese players think they're taller than they actually are, because they persist on crossing it straight onto the heads of the Dutch defenders. "ASTONISHING! 2-2!" "Can I just apologize to every Japanese player down there, because that's why they were crossing it into the Dutch box..."
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Everyone should comment on the proposed changes to NIH #academicsky #science #neuroskyence www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Thank you @gfriedman.bsky.social and @medpagetoday.bsky.social for allowing me and Naa to share why animal research is critical to human and animal health #medsky www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | Ending Animal Research Won't Make America Healthy
It would halt lifesaving discoveries and place patients at risk
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Very important research to establish African ancestry cell lines! #Neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/cellular-neu...
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Bringing African ancestry into cellular neuroscience
Two independent teams in Africa are developing stem cell lines and organoids from local populations to explore neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
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Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says 

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Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.
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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · 08/01/2026
Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
"Quit demonstrating" is not something that a pro-democracy politician says. It's something that an authoritarian tool says.
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Anna DNP, FNP, BC@ AccessToCareAdvocate @anna1900.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Representative Ted Lieu just drew a crystal clear red line: “If any military member, from the generals on down, participates in using force against Greenland without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.”
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A retrospective cohort study on the bidirectional association between depression and chronic kidney disease | www.frontiersin.org/journals/nep...
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Frontiers | A retrospective cohort study on the bidirectional association between depression and chronic kidney disease
Rationale and objectivesDepression has been associated with worse clinical outcomes in individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet its influence on ki...
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Brian Trainor @briantrainor.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I called my Congressional rep's office this morning to tell him to support the discharge petition to impeach RFK Jr being organized by @standupforscience.bsky.social , the staffer told me I was not the only person to have called about this, find your rep's number here www.house.gov/representati...
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Find Your Representative | house.gov
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 07/01/2026
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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Researchers have a moral obligation to push back when their studies are twisted to promote false health claims
NewsGuard has collected 1,000 provably false statements in its False Claim Fingerprints database. Many involve misrepresented research.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A must-read for all biomedical researchers | 5 lessons for U.S. research funding from the AIDS crisis www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/a... via @statnews.com
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5 lessons for U.S. research funding from the AIDS crisis
Here are five things that actually work when there’s no federal funding for critical research.
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Kerry Kennedy @kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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AACAP Urges Science-Driven, Compassionate Care Following HHS Proposed Rules
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Doctors for America @drsforamerica.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Help us welcome Jared Boyce, B.A., Sc.M. for today's #CopelloFellowFriday! @jared-boyce.bsky.social is an MD-PhD Candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Welcome, Jared 📚
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“This is how we fight” surreal seeing my banner at the #AMAmtg Committed to treating children, advocating for children, and studying early life trauma and pediatric diseases
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
As #futurephysicians, we will impact the lives of thousands of patients. As #medicalstudents, we can impact lives today by standing up and speaking out for the policies we believe in. Join the AMA at ama-assn.org/msop-join and advocate alongside me at the next AMA meeting!
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Does anyone know of any known global health and/or pediatrics journals that do not have a publishing free and accept review manuscripts? I’ve been running into challenges with author limits, citation limits to 10, etc. Thank you in advance! #publichealth #medicine
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2025
A statue depicting President Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein briefly appeared Tuesday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with the title, “Best Friends Forever,” and included lines from Trump’s birthday message to Epstein. nyti.ms/4nPZW4d
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
How many children must die for people to understand that vaccines save lives? Or are the lives of children that trivial? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...
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Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you are available, please consider attending the Prevent Child Abuse America Associate Board's cocktail party! When: Wednesday, October 8, 2025 Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Where: Twenty Six Chicago give.preventchildabuse.org/event/blue-s...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Florida is a center of international tourism and has one of the top 3 populations of retirees. Ending childhood vaccine requirements for school entry there is so dangerous I don’t even know where to start. Ground zero for massive unchecked outbreaks of vaccine preventable disease.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Harvard Secures a Court Victory in Its Fight With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Harvard Secures a Court Victory in Its Fight With Trump
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Doctors Find Early Success With Partial Heart Transplants www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...
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Doctors Find Early Success With Partial Heart Transplants
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
My resignation letter from CDC.  

Dear Dr. Houry,

I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.   I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested.

This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough.

While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people.  This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles.

The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people.   The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership.  This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors.  Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.

It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC.  The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense.  Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function.  Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC.
Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults.  Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc.

I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again.  I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season.  Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.”  We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary.  I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.  Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources.  At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him.  To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information.

The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer.  I believe in nutrition and exercise.  I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability.  Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning.  My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so.  I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud.   I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur.  I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed.

For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics.  I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision.

Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically.

Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution.  If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It’s amazing how little this country cares about preventing its own children from being gunned down.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/08/2025
"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Amidst all the daily bad news, here is some good news to lift up your week! Botswana eliminates paediatric HIV www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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How Botswana eliminated paediatric HIV
Political will, free maternity care and digital health tools helped Botswana achieve high standards for ending mother-to-child transmission.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/08/2025
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Study saying monthly cash won’t help children’s health is highly misleading — even irresponsible www.statnews.com/2025/08/19/b... via @statnews.com #medsky
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Study saying monthly cash won’t help children’s health is highly misleading — even irresponsible
“The lack of findings thus far in the Baby’s First Years study should not be used to justify actions that will further hurt children’s developmental health,” two experts write.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A grim but important read. In those who die ages 25-44, 62% of those deaths are BECAUSE we're Americans, in ways that both are and aren't related to #COVID. Rather, our shoddy HC infrastructure means a young person's first adverse health event can be their last. slate.com/technology/2...
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There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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The trauma of illness can last long after the body has healed
“The body can heal while the self remains disconnected”: a psychologist on the overlooked trauma of illness.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Update on NIH funding through July (August 1 budget start dates) Non-competitive renewal awards by month for fiscal year 2025 1/7
A bar graph of the fraction of NIH non-competitive renewal awards received by month showing that fewer awards that expected to being given.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/08/2025
Antivaxxers love accusing scientists of censorship but in reality they are the ones trying censor science. RFK just tried bullying a scientific journal into retracting a major study of 1.2 M kids that found that aluminum in vaccines do not increase the risk of autism or asthma. The journal refused.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Excited to share this American Academy of Pediatrics blog post I co-wrote with Nick Wilson and @loganicole.bsky.social about childhood food insecurity! www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Feeding Health: How Pediatricians Can Address Childhood Hunger
Childhood food insecurity can take on many forms but all result from a lack of accessible, nutritious food. Whether this is due to a lack of adequate grocery stores where they live, lack of reliable a...
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Inside the American Medical Association's sudden strategy shift in Washington
The AMA has shifted from a behind-the-scenes lobbying strategy to more forceful public advocacy against President Trump's health care policies.
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine; the journal is NOT retracting it just because of political pressure from the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"
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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Precision Functional Mapping (PFM). 8 yrs ago some told us it wasn't interesting. Now it's helping cure depression as part of PACE (Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation), ... commercialized by @turingmedical.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps... www.cell.com/neuron/comme...
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