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Media Contact: Leila Gray, 206-475-9809, [email protected] Infectious disease specialist Dr. King Kennard Holmes, who is credited with bringing the previously ignored field of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to the forefront of medical research, died Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Seattle after a long illness. He was 87. Nearly single-handedly, he instigated and led the STI field into the modern scientific era. “King K. Holmes was a visionary who saw the need and, during his nearly six decades at the
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Mashup Score: 20HHS makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its workers as Trump administration continues cuts - 17 day(s) ago
Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were emailed an offer to leave their job for as much as a $25,000 payment as part of President Donald Trump’s government cuts.
Source: www.pbs.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
HHS makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its workers as Trump administration continues cuts https://t.co/TgPqlA1eFk The disruption this will cause to CDC and other HHS agencies like NIH and FDA, will create irreconcilable damage to public health and science.
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Mashup Score: 11Military to remove 'Enola Gay' photos for violating DEI rules - 17 day(s) ago
A photo of Army biologists was on a list of images to be purged, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish that included their gender.
Source: www.newsweek.comCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules - @Newsweek The aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima was named “Enola Gay” after pilot Paul Tibbets Jr's mother, Enola Gay Tibbets. This has nothing to do with DEI! https://t.co/IqmZOLF3xD
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Mashup Score: 0CDC Plans Large Study on Autism and Vaccines, Report Says - 19 day(s) ago
HHS Secretary Kennedy’s role in this research is unclear
Source: www.medpagetoday.comCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
CDC Plans Large Study on Autism and Vaccines, Report Says https://t.co/ls3l5X5D8L This is nuts, Elon, please have DOGE stop this waste of government funds!
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Mashup Score: 4When Executive Directives And Public Health Ethics Collide | Health Affairs Forefront - 19 day(s) ago
Recent policy directives from the White House seek to compel actions that are contrary to widely accepted standards of ethical public health practice.
Source: www.healthaffairs.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
When Executive Directives And Public Health Ethics Collide | Health Affairs https://t.co/ttFA1Ygudv
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Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely
Source: www.theguardian.comCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding @guardian Great article quoting Seema Lakdawala, an influenza virologist and co-director of the Center for Transmission of Airborne Pathogens at @EmoryMedicine https://t.co/HsUobh9C4O
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As of 17 February 2024, UNAIDS had received at least one status report from 52 countries (39 PEPFAR-funded and 13 countries that receive some US support). The 39 countries represent 71% of all PEPFAR-funded countries. Collectively, these status reports reveal a range of significant impacts resulting from the US Government’s decision to freeze and review all US foreign
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.@UNAIDS Weekly Update – Impact of US Shifts on the Global HIV Response https://t.co/XSd58U2GVZ Reports reveal a range of significant impacts resulting from the USG decision to freeze and review all US foreign assistance.
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Mashup Score: 4US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality - 1 month(s) ago
This population-based, cross-sectional study investigates the infant mortality rate following the adoption of complete or 6-week abortion bans in a number of US states.
Source: jamanetwork.comCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality https://t.co/uxyUJvL77q "Abortion bans were associated with increases in infant mortality."
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A study of a health equity curriculum is stopped in its tracks by the ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in federal agencies. The study’s leaders see the sudden halt as a call to action.
Source: www.nejm.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
Answering the Call — Sustaining Equity Efforts in the Face of Regression @NEJM https://t.co/T4RW64wsNc “Equity in medicine is not an ideal to be debated or a goal to be deferred — it is a necessity.”
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Mashup Score: 14The Consequences of Silencing the “Voice of CDC” | NEJM - 1 month(s) ago
For more than 60 years, the MMWR has published life-saving information on U.S. public health crises. The Trump administration’s pause on health communications has disrupted that essential mission.
Source: www.nejm.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Infectious DiseaseTweet-
The Consequences of Silencing the “Voice of CDC” @NEJM https://t.co/i3BduYfOlm
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We have lost a giant in HIV & STI research. https://t.co/PHRmASRMI7 In memory: world STD research pioneer Dr. King Holmes by @uwmnewsroom