Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children

“Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we can no longer trust the leadership of our federal government for credible information about vaccines, and that’s a tragedy that will cause needless suffering,”

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Healthcare is shifting from a place you go to a system that surrounds you.

We have the potential to move past simply digitizing yesterday’s workflows & into an era of real reinvention- where data, AI, and new care models converge and start to change the operating system of health itself.

Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health For much of human history, infectious diseases were the main causes of morbidity and mortality. The sciences of public health, epidemiology, microbiology, and vaccine and drug development have dramati...

Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health

By @drsethberkley.bsky.social in Science
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New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

Life Is Geometry In 2025, we’ve got DNA all figured out, right? It’s been over fifty years since Crick and Watson (and Franklin) discovered the double helix…

According to new research, it turns out that, when it comes to the genome, we knew the words, but not the language. And that language is geometry.

Mind. Blown. 😮
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Measles Experts Fired in Error

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Trump Administration Will Rehire Measles Experts Fired in Error
Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Yellow background with red coronaviruses and a green money bag with a dollar sign. In front is the AHIP statement on vaccine coverage for COVID and Influenza which will stay the same. There are Long COVID incidence data boxes per state in background.

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🤝States band together for public health
📈Long COVID incidence remains high
🦠EBV-autoantibodies linked to Long COVID & ME/CFS
🧠Long COVID, ME/CFS decreased energy in brain
👼2 babies die of Whooping Cough in La.

& much more buff.ly/rCUYiRv

#medsky #pedsky 🛟😷

That’s More Like It I’m always on the lookout for advances in healthcare that seem more like 22st century medicine than what we still experience in 2025. Way…

I'm probably not going to be around to see 22nd century healthcare, so I'm always of the lookout for hints of it. I profile two such examples.

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Longevity: Was magical to meet 100 year old, former P-51 fighter pilot Joe Peterburs (Retired Colonel, WWII, Korea, Vietnam veteran) last week at #AirVenture #OSH25. On his last mission in 1945 he shot down a German ME262 jet fighter.

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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (Gift Article) The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

“While RFKJr. makes a spectacle of his plans to make America healthier (a laudable goal), in actuality, the administration is kneecapping the very infrastructure that would make that feasible and is instead enacting policies that will compromise health.”

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Analysis | The MAHA Report’s AI fingerprints, annotated The Post reviewed the more than 500 citations in the MAHA Report. Here are the patterns of AI use we found.

The White House’s “Make America Healthy Again” report, which issued a dire warning about the forces responsible for Americans’ declining life expectancy, bears hallmarks of the use of AI in its citations— and appears to have garbled citations and invented studies.

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How to Do Good When Times Are Bad: Dr. Larry Brilliant at NextMed Health 2025 Dr. Larry Brilliant – “Meeting the Moment: How to Do Good When Times are Bad” at NextMed Health 2025.In this deeply moving and timely keynote, Dr. Larry Bril...

Dr. Larry Brilliant – “Meeting the Moment: How to Do Good When Times are Bad” at #NextMedHealth 2025.

@LarryBrilliant —epidemiologist, & key figure in the eradication of smallpox—shares a powerful message on how to lead with purpose during turbulent times.

I’m Sensing Some Future One of my frequent laments is that here we are, a quarter of the way into the 21st century, yet too much of our health care system still…

Floss that is also a health sensor. Nano biosensors. Engineering cancer treatments in vivo. Yeah, those are the kind of #healthcare futures I'm looking for.
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How to Do Good When Times Are Bad: Dr. Larry Brilliant at NextMed Health 2025 Dr. Larry Brilliant – “Meeting the Moment: How to Do Good When Times are Bad” at NextMed Health 2025.In this deeply moving and timely keynote, Dr. Larry Bril...

Dr. Larry Brilliant – “Meeting the Moment: How to Do Good When Times are Bad” at #NextMedHealth 2025.

@LarryBrilliant —epidemiologist, & key figure in the eradication of smallpox—shares a powerful message on how to lead with purpose during turbulent times.

What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.

What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation. via @npr.org

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And Now for Some Fun Future I feel like I’ve been writing a lot about futures I was pretty worried about, so I’m pleased to have a couple developments to talk about…

These seem like dark days for U.S. science, but let's remember that there is exciting work still being done that bodes well for the future, including in healthcare. I profile a couple examples.
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The Dark Ages Are Back Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.

In medieval Europe… when scholars demanded autonomy from Church and state, they were often rebuked—or worse.

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.

New White House proposal would reduce the $47 billion budget of the NIH to $27 billion — a roughly 40% cut.

The proposal would cut the CDC’s budget by about 44%, from $9.2B to about $5.2B & would eliminate all of the agency’s chronic disease programs

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Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’ The Office on Smoking and Health at the CDC is no more, putting state quitlines and national data on youth tobacco use at risk.

“If you’re really worried about the ingredients in cereal,” said one former worker, “wait until you find out about the thousands of chemicals that are contained in cigarettes.”

‘We are flying blind’: RFK Jr.’s cuts halt data collection on abortion, cancer, HIV and more — POLITICO Fired workers and outside experts say the cuts leave the nation more vulnerable to health threats.

The federal teams that count #publichealth problems are disappearing — putting efforts to solve those problems in jeopardy.

Thanks to everyone who made #NextMedHealth 2025 an incredible experience exploring the future of health and medicine, with a terrific community of innovators.

How AI Could Reshape Health Care This Viewpoint examines how artificial intelligence could reshape health care, as new technologies enable the move from traditional health care organizations to direct-to-consumer models.

How AI Could Reshape Health Care—Rise in Direct-to-Consumer Models

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NextMed Health; March 30-April 2, 2025 — NextMed Health: Re-imagining the Future of Health and Medicine

Join me and an amazing array of cross-disciplinary innovators for NextMed Health, exploring re-imagining the future of health & biomedicine.

March 30-April 2, 2025 at the historic Hotel del Coronado in San Diego.

#medsky #futureofmedicine
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Hospital at Home: A Glimpse at Acute Care in 2050 Fast-evolving tech makes hospital-at-home an approaching reality. Although not everyone is a fan, the future potential is undeniable. Here’s what it could look like.

The emergence of "Homespitalists,” clinicians who specialize in providing acute care at home with a range of digital diagnostics.

Some predictions from me in this article in @Medscape

#HospitalToHome

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Opinion | I’m a doctor. Don't fall for this myth about vitamin A and measles. As a pediatrician, I’ve seen firsthand how children can suffer from diseases like this one.

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Flattening the curve: How smartwatches could help stop a pandemic before it even begins Early detection of sickness is critical for preventing its spread—whether it's COVID-19, influenza or the common cold. Yet, many illnesses are at their most contagious before people even know they're ...

Flattening the curve: How smartwatches could help stop a pandemic before it even begins

New study models how smartwatches could provide a simple and effective way to dramatically minimize the unwitting spread of disease in pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic people...

Inside the Collapse at the NIH Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

Inside the Collapse at the NIH

-by Katherine J. Wu in @theatlantic.com

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Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice At Sesame, our goal is to achieve “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.

Try out this impressive conversational #AI platform from
@Sesame. with “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.

Demo in the link below: www.sesame.com/research/cro...

Having fun talking to 'Miles' a conversational #AI from
Sesame

Miles kindly made a little promotional audio for nextmed.health

Meet Miles and other examples of the cutting edge at nextmed.health/2025
this March 30-April 2 in San Diego

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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come.

"Dismantling the behind-the-scenes scientific research programs that backstop American life could lead to long-lasting, perhaps irreparable damage to everything from the quality of health care to the public’s access to next-gen consumer technologies."

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