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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strong-scientific-leaders-must-speak-out-against-the-trump-administrations/
"We are proud to be members of the #NAS [National Academy of Sciences], but we are not proud of its present inaction. In these challenging and defining times, the National Academy of Sciences, of all scientific institutions, must speak up…The new #Trump administration is now making an unprecedented effort to prevent science from informing public policy. In his first day in office, President Trump signed executive orders withdrawing the U.S. from participation in the Paris Agreement on #climate change and from the World Health Organization [#WHO]. The new administration has subsequently acted to drastically limit support for climate and medical research performed by scientists in the federal government and in universities. In this emergency, it is not enough for the National Academy of Sciences to speak up from its grass roots, as in 2016 or 2018. It must now speak as an institution if it is to fulfill its responsibilities to the nation and maintain its relevance in the future."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
Strong Scientific Leaders Must Speak Out against the Trump Administration’s Science Denial
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences should denounce the antiscientific policies of the Trump administrationScientific American
“It’s time to come home.”
Carney rolled out a health-care plan that includes $4 billion for building and renovating hospitals and long-term care homes.
[Can I come, too?] #medicine https://nowtoronto.com/news/carney-urges-canadian-doctors-in-the-u-s-to-come-home/
#BREAKDOWN THE #BORDER #WALLS AND #FLOOD #GAZA and #WESTBANK WITH #LOVE, #FOOD, #MEDICINE, ALL THE GOOD THINGS NOW! 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🇵🇸
@Yemen @iran @egypt @Jordan .....ANY #BROTHER OR #SISTER CLOSE ENOUGH TO RALLY ENOUGH #FORCES TO BUST DOWN SUM WALLS MF!!! LETS GET IT DONE ALREADY!
SEND ME!!! 4REALS!! I HAS BAT AND BOOTS AND MANY #SKILLS!!
The war has destroyed vast parts of Gaza and most of its food production capabilities. Around 90 per cent of the population is displaced.
#war #politics #medicine #agriculture #Gaza #World
https://globalnews.ca/news/11140651/israeli-investigation-gaza-medic-killings/
But the insurer did make some exceptions. On several occasions, Blue Cross executives signed deals to pay for their wives’ treatment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #Healthcare #Cancer #Medicine #Louisiana
In addition, in the past week, 75% of UN missions within Gaza have been denied or impeded.
This blockade is leaving families hungry, malnourished, without clean water, shelter, and adequate health care, and increasing the risk of disease and death.'' (...)
Full: https://www.who.int/news-room/speeches/item/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing---10-april-2025
Wir sind #neuhier und freuen uns auf euch & #Mastodon 🥳
Als eine der größten Universitätskliniken Europas entwickelt die #CharitéBerlin die #Medizin von morgen – seit über 300 Jahren. Hier versorgen wir euch mit News aus der Charité & ihrer Spitzenforschung.
#introduction
As one of Europe’s biggest university hospitals, Charité has been developing the #medicine of tomorrow for more than 300 years. Here, we’ll be giving you the latest updates on Charité & its leading research.
I'm Florian 👨🏼💻, #IT/computer science student at #RWTHAachen 🇩🇪🎓 and #tech enthusiast.
I do lots of #selfhosting in my #homelab, develop apps with #Flutter 📲, but also websites 🌐 and other #software 💻.
I'm very passionate about emergency #medicine 🩺 and work as a #paramedic (Rettungssanitäter 🇩🇪) on the #ambulance 🚑 in #ems 🚨.
I love water sports, be it #sailing ⛵, #diving 🤿 or #swimming 🏊🏼♂️.
#Trump #Republicans #chaos #destruction #cruelty #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #trans #cancer #healthcare #research #science #medicine
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#Trump #Republicans #chaos #destruction #cruelty #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #trans #cancer #healthcare #research #science #medicine
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Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."
Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"
#psychiatry #neuroscience #sciComm #edu
Kitchen items—sponges, blenders, kettles—are abundant sources of microplastics that we all consume
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-microplastics-get-into-our-food/
#news #science #health #medicine #environment #plastic #microplastics
Drug shortages in the UK have risen to their worst level for four years, official figures show, with Brexit considered a key reason so many medications are scarce.
Apologies for ruining your morning, but reminders need to be refreshed - medicines this time. The Conservatives dun it, Labour are maintaining it
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/22/brexit-key-factor-worst-uk-drug-shortages-in-four-years
#RejoinEU #Medicine #ItsNotWorking
Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita & has been rendered incapable of taking care of them.
"..the healthcare system in Gaza cannot even begin to recover, much less address the multiple health crises plaguing the civilian population. One of the worst among them is the shocking number of amputees that Israel’s indiscriminate use of explosive weapons for 15 months has left behind."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/15/gazas-silent-epidemic
#medicine #medical #Gaza #IsraelTerroristState
Gaza’s silent epidemic
Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them.Hadeel Awad (Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/13/live-israel-hamas-continue-talks-arab-states-present-gaza-plan-to-us
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Palestinians #PalestinianLivesMatter #Politics #Egypt #Lebanon #Syria #Iraq #Iran #SaudiArabia #Qatar #USA #Zionism #BDS #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow #ArmsEmbargo #ArmsEmbargoNow #Netanyahu #BenjaminNetanyahu #FreeGaza #FreePalestine
LIVE: Israel, Hamas continue talks as Palestinians in Gaza starved of aid
Doha talks continue with 10 living Israeli captives’ release and extension of Gaza truce by 60 days on the table.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
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Alternatively, the digital version is available with an online subscription from our portal page:
https://corom.edu.mt/field-guide/
Our Field Guide was designed specifically for the Remote and Austere practitioner working in difficult and resource-poor environments.
#medicine
Field Guide | College of Remote & Offshore Medicine Foundation
CoROM's Field Guide focuses on the healthcare practitioner working in remote, austere and resource-limited environments. It is designed to help the remotesandra@blueempressmarketing.com (College of Remote Offshore Medicine Foundation)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now
" #DOGE and #DonaldTrump are trying to shut down advanced medical #research, especially #cancer research, in the #UnitedStates...
Reporting is inevitably focused on canceled grants, dismissed researchers, bans on certain forms of #communication...
What’s important is this bigger picture...
They’re shutting down medicine/disease research... throughout the United States."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #Health #Medicine #USPol #News
Act Now
I may do a longer, maybe several longer versions of this post. But I think it’s important to state categorically and clearly: DOGE and Donald Trump are trying…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00703-1
"In an unprecedented move, the US #NIH has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities.” NIH staff members have been instructed to identify and potentially cancel grants for projects studying transgender populations, #gender identity, diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI) in the scientific workforce, [or] #environmentaljustice…Grants that allot funding to universities in #China and those related to #climate change are also under scrutiny. 'It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,' says Lisa Fazio, a cognitive psychologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who studies misinformation. 'For all this talk about free speech, this is direct censorship of scientific research.'"
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.Mallapaty, Smriti
https://www.404media.co/french-university-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/
"A leading French university is inviting American scientists who fear their research on subjects like #climate might be censored by Donald Trump’s administration to do their work in France. The program is called ‘safe place for science,’ and will provide 15 million Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period…It targets, but is not limited to, climate and environment, health, and human and social sciences."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #USPol #USPolitics
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00985
"The editors have given a great deal of thought to actions Annals can take to counter some of this damage. Following an executive order that limited the ability of health agency staff to communicate externally, we quickly published all manuscripts with government-affiliated authors that were accepted but awaiting publication before we could receive a request to withdraw them. As a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [#ICMJE], Annals helped develop and strongly endorses the guidance it posted in early February 2025 relevant to journals' responses to requests to withdraw, revise, or alter authorship of manuscripts in process at scientific journals. To date, we are unaware of any request to retract published articles that include banned terms or address issues the U.S. administration deems unsavory. If we receive such requests, Annals will not honor them. Retraction is warranted only when there is clear evidence of major errors or scientific misconduct that seriously compromise research findings."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00674-3
"The NIH told Nature in an e-mail that, on 1 March 'some of NIH public-web services experienced service disruptions' but all services were restored on 2 March. 'NIH is committed to resilient and open access to PubMed and other NIH web services,' the team wrote. But [Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious-diseases physician] says any disruption — even if temporary — raises concerns about how researchers access essential scientific information. 'It also serves as a reminder of the need for contingency plans, such as alternative #repositories or offline access to critical research, to ensure that health-care providers and researchers are not left without crucial information when they need it most,' she says."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #OpenInfrastructure #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s future
A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.Mallapaty, Smriti
https://www.nih.gov/
The reports of it being down have plummeted to near zero.
https://downdetector.com/status/nih/
But I'm still looking for a good explanation of what happened.
#Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S.National Institutes of Health (NIH)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5170090-rfk-jr-hhs-public-comment-rulemaking-ends/
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday released a policy prohibiting public comments during his department’s rulemaking process, ending more than 50 years of the public’s involvement in crafting his department’s rules…After assuming office, Kennedy had vowed to usher in “radical transparency” at the HHS…Lawrence O. Gostin, faculty director of O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center…speculated that Kennedy was rescinding public comments in order to quickly “ram through” radical changes to health care, public health and scientific research in the U.S."
#DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.nih.gov/
It's been up and down, but mostly down, since before noon yesterday.
https://downdetector.com/status/nih/
I don't know what's going on but will post updates as I find them.
#DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S.National Institutes of Health (NIH)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-who-publication-memo_n_67c1eb34e4b0bf54864084cf
"Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [#CDC] have been prohibited from co-authoring publications with World Health Organization [#WHO] staff, dealing a blow to global research efforts and continuing the #Trump administration’s aggressive attack on government-funded science."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.Matt Shuham (HuffPost)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/114383
"PubMed is the backbone of biomedical research in the U.S. That's not an exaggeration…However, there are reasons to be extremely concerned about its continued existence…There are [at least five] ways the administration could interfere with PubMed."
PS: Although the author mixes up #PubMed and #PubMedCentral, her concerns apply to both.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Will They Come for PubMed Next?
Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resourceKatie Suleta, DHSc, MPH, MS (MedpageToday)
https://www.thelancet.com/editorial-policies#anchor10
"The Lancet Group will be making no changes to our editorial policies regarding withdrawal, authorship change, inclusive language, or retraction. Ahead of publication, the withdrawal of submitted papers and authorship changes will only generally be considered if the written agreement of all authors is received. The Lancet Group will continue to recommend the use of inclusive language, accepting authors’ ultimate choice of terminology when it is scientifically accurate and respectful, and will continue to encourage authors to follow the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) reporting guidelines. Published papers will only be corrected or retracted when they contain factual errors or if scientific misconduct has taken place. These policies are in line with recently issued guidance from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [#ICMJE]."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #DEI #Medicine #ScholComm #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/will-medical-publishers-fight-trumps-war-on-woke
"Although many medical journal #editors have made their position known, medical #publishers are, for now, conspicuously silent…The collective resolve of the medical publishing industry is being put to the test. This is an opportunity for the industry to affirm its commitment to safeguard the scholarly record from ideological distortion. #Censorship in health research affects us all. We share a responsibility to stand firm and decry Trump’s war on "gender ideology" as a full-scale assault on the scientific method."
#DefendResearch #Journals #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
UH bought dozens of surgery centers in '24 & specialty pharmacies. Many of those outpt centers are focused on highly profitable services, like heart cath labs, orthopedic surgery, etc. UH's recent deals helped boost revenue by 8% to >$400 billion. https://shorturl.at/wX8Vy #press #medicine
UnitedHealth continued aggressive, and stealthy, growth in 2024 | STAT
Financial documents show the sprawling conglomerate acquired or created 250 subsidiaries in 2024 as it continues an ambitious vertical integration strategy.Bob Herman (STAT)
As #Measles Spreads, #RFKJr Embraces *Remedies* Like Cod Liver Oil
In an interview, the #HHS secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but did not mention vaccination.
#Trump #idiocracy #AntiVax #PublicHealth #health #medicine #science #vaccines #GetVaccinated #USpol
They are trying to kill us
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/health/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=54E4B1A7-F808-4C42-91E3-F37197A0AB6C
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/abortion-bans-have-increased-both.html
https://www.icmje.org/news-and-editorials/icmje_guidance_notice.html
"If authors request removal or addition of an author after manuscript submission or publication, journal editors should seek an explanation and signed statement of agreement for the requested change from all listed authors including the author to be removed or added…Corrections are warranted for errors of fact that should have been recognized at the time of publication. Matters of debate and evolving science and methods are not errors. Retraction of published work is generally reserved for errors serious enough to invalidate results and conclusions and/or when there is scientific misconduct.."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #ScholComm #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2830748?guestAccessKey=47e4b56b-8f69-4ff3-a26e-3a66a88b2c67&linkId=753250407
"Some authors of scientific works in process have had to remove their names from publications for these publications to proceed; others have chosen to pause or withdraw their publications. While some of these actions are directly related to the executive order to #HHS employees to cease communications, many have been undertaken preemptively by authors who are not subject to the order but are presumably fearful of the challenges of communicating complex findings in this current environment. Some authors are engaging in anticipatory compliance by scrubbing from their manuscripts words they fear may be deemed, in the moment, politically unacceptable…We remain steadfast in our guidance to authors and readers across the JAMA Network journals and endorse and adhere to the standards set by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [#ICMJE]…We will act flexibly, where appropriate, to ensure that censoring efforts will not silence the integrity of the scientific process or clear communication of scientific information important for health."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #ScholComm #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r289
#DefendResearch #Ethics #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal
In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.The BMJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trump-public-health-funding-nih.html
"I’ve spent over five decades as a scientist in academia and the federal government, including as director of the NIH. Never before have I seen my profession so politicized as it is now under the #Trump administration…For baffling reasons, the executive branch is now waging war on America’s scientific enterprise. This assault includes nominating leaders hostile to science and unqualified for their roles; issuing a barrage of executive orders that disrupt research by restricting meetings, publications, travel and grant making; censoring ideas and even certain words from scientific discourse; and trying to withhold billions of dollars from universities and other research institutions that help pay the costs of research."
PS: In addition to being a former NIH director, Varmus is a Nobel laureate (1989 Medicine) and co-founder of @PLOS.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/what-if-we-cant-rely-on-pubmed/
"#PubMed is incredibly reliable…That said, between the risks of an exodus of key personnel, understaffing, or goodness-knows-what vandalism when a goon squad arrives at NIH, it’s not paranoid any more to think ahead to the once-unthinkable. What would PubMed enshittification look like? Could PubMed go down more often, and for longer? Might services no longer be free? How else could the #quality and #reliability of its services be degraded?"
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…Hilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/114177
"A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with an executive order by President #Trump…The scrubbed material includes reports on HIV prevention, a CDC webpage for providing clinicians with guidance on reproductive healthcare, and an FDA study on 'sex differences in the clinical evaluation of medical products.'"
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Litigation #Medicine #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
Court Orders CDC, FDA to Restore Scrubbed Webpages, Data
Judge agreed to temporary restraining order requested by the Doctors for America advocacy groupAssociated Press (MedpageToday)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/399319/trump-cdc-health-data-removed-obesity-suicide
#Censorship #Medicine #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
Trump’s shocking purge of public health data, explained
Trump and Elon Musk have said they want to get rid of DEI. But their purge has swept up data on obesity and suicide rates plus teen smoking and sexual behavior.Dylan Scott (Vox)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-officials-influence-cdc-mmwr/
"Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News. The interference included dictating what to cover and withholding studies on the growing bird flu outbreak."
PS: Just curious. How do Trump officials decide that covering bird flu is bad for their agenda?
#Medicine #ScholComm #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy," one health official told CBS News.Alexander Tin (CBS News)