Liz Zuccala
@drzucc.bsky.social
Deputy Editor at @mja.com.au. Posting on #PublicHealth, #SciCom, #GenderEquity, #IDsky. On Wurundjeri land.
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America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Why next year's flu shot might not be as good as it should be
America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.
www.npr.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Will anyone be held accountable for this??
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Will anyone be held accountable for this??
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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“Some former employees speak of the company like refugees of a once-great city, grief-stricken and a little bewildered by how it all came undone. They point to moments — a clinical trial result, an election outcome, the selection of a presidential Cabinet member — that could have changed everything”
How Moderna, the company that helped save the world, unraveled
Exclusive: The inside story of why Moderna now faces a crisis unlike any in its 15-year-history.
www.statnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“Some former employees speak of the company like refugees of a once-great city, grief-stricken and a little bewildered by how it all came undone. They point to moments — a clinical trial result, an election outcome, the selection of a presidential Cabinet member — that could have changed everything”
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How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war
“I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals, the relentlessness of the repeated attacks, the indifference to the consequences of the attacks for patients and staff” - Len Rubenstein
www.bmj.com/content/391/... @bmj.com
“I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals, the relentlessness of the repeated attacks, the indifference to the consequences of the attacks for patients and staff” - Len Rubenstein
www.bmj.com/content/391/... @bmj.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war
“I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals, the relentlessness of the repeated attacks, the indifference to the consequences of the attacks for patients and staff” - Len Rubenstein
www.bmj.com/content/391/... @bmj.com
“I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals, the relentlessness of the repeated attacks, the indifference to the consequences of the attacks for patients and staff” - Len Rubenstein
www.bmj.com/content/391/... @bmj.com
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This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis?
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn
Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...
www.bmj.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis?
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will begin publishing public health alerts in the coming month.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
www.statnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will begin publishing public health alerts in the coming month.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes
@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes
Seye Abimbola's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health takes a kaleidoscopic view
of the effects of outsider visions and imaginaries on the recipients, contexts, and
places that hold attention in g...
www.thelancet.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The gaze reversed: global health through local eyes
@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thirushanaidu.bsky.social reviews @seyeabimbola.bsky.social’s book in @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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NEW in InSight+
University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time, writes Associate Professor Daniel Demant
Read more: buff.ly/iNituWK
University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time, writes Associate Professor Daniel Demant
Read more: buff.ly/iNituWK
October 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
NEW in InSight+
University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time, writes Associate Professor Daniel Demant
Read more: buff.ly/iNituWK
University of Technology Sydney plans to cut public health at the worst possible time, writes Associate Professor Daniel Demant
Read more: buff.ly/iNituWK
Australian women having a heart attack are less likely to be promptly diagnosed and treated compared to men, although the gender gap in cardiac care is (slowly) narrowing:
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
Original research article via @mja.com.au: www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
#genderequity
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
Original research article via @mja.com.au: www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
#genderequity
Heart attack signs look different in women. It affects the care they receive
Australian women having a heart attack are less likely to be promptly diagnosed and treated compared to men, although the gender gap in cardiac care is narrowing.
www.abc.net.au
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Australian women having a heart attack are less likely to be promptly diagnosed and treated compared to men, although the gender gap in cardiac care is (slowly) narrowing:
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
Original research article via @mja.com.au: www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
#genderequity
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
Original research article via @mja.com.au: www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
#genderequity
Very proud to have curated this Special Issue in the @mja.com.au on #gender & health.
Amid growing backlash against #genderequity & diversity, we sought to elevate work informed by evidence & respect for the rights, dignity and perspectives of affected populations.
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
Amid growing backlash against #genderequity & diversity, we sought to elevate work informed by evidence & respect for the rights, dignity and perspectives of affected populations.
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
Special issue on gender and health: listening to the voices of patients
Special issue on gender and health: listening to the voices of patients
www.mja.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Very proud to have curated this Special Issue in the @mja.com.au on #gender & health.
Amid growing backlash against #genderequity & diversity, we sought to elevate work informed by evidence & respect for the rights, dignity and perspectives of affected populations.
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
Amid growing backlash against #genderequity & diversity, we sought to elevate work informed by evidence & respect for the rights, dignity and perspectives of affected populations.
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
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📢 New publication alert!
This came out last week while I was off in conference land. “Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection”, published in MJA www.mja.com.au/doi/10.5694/...
This came out last week while I was off in conference land. “Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection”, published in MJA www.mja.com.au/doi/10.5694/...
Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection
Examination of an Australian government scheme to fund health and medical research targeted at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
www.mja.com.au
September 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
📢 New publication alert!
This came out last week while I was off in conference land. “Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection”, published in MJA www.mja.com.au/doi/10.5694/...
This came out last week while I was off in conference land. “Systemic challenges for meaningful partnerships in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and medical research grant applications: a critical reflection”, published in MJA www.mja.com.au/doi/10.5694/...
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Honoured to be named on this paper just published in MJA, brilliantly led by Dr Kade Booth at UON. We articulate the urgent need to address inequity in cervical cancer prevention for trans Australians 🌈🎓
Advancing equity: the urgent need to include trans and gender diverse people in cervical cancer prevention in Australia
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Honoured to be named on this paper just published in MJA, brilliantly led by Dr Kade Booth at UON. We articulate the urgent need to address inequity in cervical cancer prevention for trans Australians 🌈🎓
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Cells swapping their #mitochondria - this sounded like science fiction 🧪 when the first studies started coming out!
But now this has been observed in #cancer, #yeast, #molluscs, and under normal physiology - as a way to regulate energy demands, metabolism, cell fate & much more - true #powerhouses!
But now this has been observed in #cancer, #yeast, #molluscs, and under normal physiology - as a way to regulate energy demands, metabolism, cell fate & much more - true #powerhouses!
Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?
Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat cancer and other diseases.
www.nature.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Cells swapping their #mitochondria - this sounded like science fiction 🧪 when the first studies started coming out!
But now this has been observed in #cancer, #yeast, #molluscs, and under normal physiology - as a way to regulate energy demands, metabolism, cell fate & much more - true #powerhouses!
But now this has been observed in #cancer, #yeast, #molluscs, and under normal physiology - as a way to regulate energy demands, metabolism, cell fate & much more - true #powerhouses!
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This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT:
RFK Jr is a danger to public health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
RFK Jr is a danger to public health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT:
RFK Jr is a danger to public health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
RFK Jr is a danger to public health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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However bad you think things are at the CDC they are worse.
That's the takeaway from this well-reported story from Daniel Payne w/back-up from an all-star STAT team.
Must-read.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
That's the takeaway from this well-reported story from Daniel Payne w/back-up from an all-star STAT team.
Must-read.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Inside the CDC director's ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused
Susan Monarez’s resistance to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s moves to assert control over vaccine guidance is at the center of her dismissal as CDC director
www.statnews.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
However bad you think things are at the CDC they are worse.
That's the takeaway from this well-reported story from Daniel Payne w/back-up from an all-star STAT team.
Must-read.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
That's the takeaway from this well-reported story from Daniel Payne w/back-up from an all-star STAT team.
Must-read.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
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We need a circling of the wagons (journals) to support #CDC & against the weaponising of public health.
As we did when medical journal editors worldwide condemned the first Executive Orders.
It’s tempting to think this destruction is only a US problem - but the underlying currents are everywhere.
As we did when medical journal editors worldwide condemned the first Executive Orders.
It’s tempting to think this destruction is only a US problem - but the underlying currents are everywhere.
In the past month we've seen astounding attacks in the US on science, medicine, health, academic freedom & human rights.
We've also seen leadership & calls for solidarity from institutions around the world in response.
A thread of commentaries & statements from scholarly journals & their editors 👇
We've also seen leadership & calls for solidarity from institutions around the world in response.
A thread of commentaries & statements from scholarly journals & their editors 👇
August 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We need a circling of the wagons (journals) to support #CDC & against the weaponising of public health.
As we did when medical journal editors worldwide condemned the first Executive Orders.
It’s tempting to think this destruction is only a US problem - but the underlying currents are everywhere.
As we did when medical journal editors worldwide condemned the first Executive Orders.
It’s tempting to think this destruction is only a US problem - but the underlying currents are everywhere.
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Editorial published today by the Editors-in-Chief of the @agu.org journals:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America
This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Editorial published today by the Editors-in-Chief of the @agu.org journals:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer."
This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer."
This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture
theconversation.com/australia-ha...
theconversation.com/australia-ha...
Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture
Australia is awash with policies, but not the kind that would fix the workforce crisis. Here’s what would work instead.
theconversation.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture
theconversation.com/australia-ha...
theconversation.com/australia-ha...
Paramedics are less likely to identify a stroke in women than men. Closing this gap could save lives – and money theconversation.com/paramedics-a...
Also see the original research article in @mja.com.au: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...
Also see the original research article in @mja.com.au: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...
Paramedics are less likely to identify a stroke in women than men. Closing this gap could save lives – and money
In women, ‘atypical’ stroke symptoms can be overlooked, leaving them more vulnerable to misdiagnosis, delayed treatment and long-term harm.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Paramedics are less likely to identify a stroke in women than men. Closing this gap could save lives – and money theconversation.com/paramedics-a...
Also see the original research article in @mja.com.au: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...
Also see the original research article in @mja.com.au: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...
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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"
The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"
A large-scale, government-funded study tracking 1.2M children over two decades found something Kennedy doesn't like, so he wants it retracted.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study
An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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"
The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"
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Today published in the @thelancet.com , our overview of medical consultation related to woud care over 2024 in Gaza, lot of trauma cause by explosive weapons that don't belong in Urban settings. Proud of our teams.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
War wounds caused by explosive weapons in Gaza: data from a 2024 study by Médecins Sans Frontières
As of July 23, 2025, Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed over 59 219 Palestinians,
wounded an additional 143 045, and displaced nearly all of the 2·1 million people
who live there.1 Triangula...
www.thelancet.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Today published in the @thelancet.com , our overview of medical consultation related to woud care over 2024 in Gaza, lot of trauma cause by explosive weapons that don't belong in Urban settings. Proud of our teams.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...