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Dr. Heidi Collins Fantasia PhD
@hcfantasia.bsky.social
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Professor & Department Chair, Solomont School of Nursing
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
Editor, Nursing for Women's Health

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Feb 11
JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · Feb 3
If I told you there’s a medicine that can prevent:

90% of cervical cancers
90% of anal cancers
90% of HPV-caused oropharyngeal cancers
85% of vaginal cancers
90% of vulvar cancers
90% of penile cancers

Would you be on board with it?

Read more ⬇️
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-say...
RFK Jr says he wants to tackle chronic disease. His war on the HPV vaccine shows otherwise.
RFK Jr. profits by scaring people from a proven cancer prevention: that’s the opposite of combating chronic disease.
news.immunologic.org

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Dr. Heidi Collins Fantasia PhD @hcfantasia.bsky.social · Feb 3
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · Feb 2
The CDC has been archived. Thank you to whoever did this!

open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...
The CDC archived before the bad times began
I don’t have my computer on me, so I am sending this through the Substack phone app.
open.substack.com

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Justin Gill @justin-gill.bsky.social · Feb 2
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #nursesky #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky
CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇
web.archive.org/web/20250131...
Site Index
STIs are common. Many are curable - all are preventable.
web.archive.org

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · Feb 1
The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health was created in 1990.

Women’s health issues didn’t exist before then.

(actually most people just didn’t care)

I’m sure the website is down because we’ve solved all those problems. /s
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Dr. Heidi Collins Fantasia PhD @hcfantasia.bsky.social · Feb 1
So DO SOMETHING. Legislators need to stop clutching their pearls and posting their outrage, they need to ACT.

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Dr. Heidi Collins Fantasia PhD @hcfantasia.bsky.social · Jan 31
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Jan 31
Where is the fierce, vocal, widespread OPPOSITION from our medical orgs?
Where are the AMA, ABIM, AAP, ACS etc?
CDC websites, datasets taken down as agency complies with Trump executive order | CNN
Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with...
www.cnn.com

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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · Jan 28
PEPFAR has saved more than 25 million lives. The program’s success has been transformational not only for the world, but also for American interests. Retreating from U.S. leadership in global health would make us weaker.
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries
PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.
www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · Jan 24
Pushback made a difference here.

In the face of loud "concerns from lawmakers and veterans advocates over the impact of the hiring freeze" the new admin scaled back its initial assault on the V.A....

cc @rieckhoff.bsky.social

www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...
More than 300k VA health jobs exempted from White House hiring freeze
About two-thirds of Veterans Affairs jobs will be excluded from a White House order blocking new hiring.
www.militarytimes.com

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who.int
WHO @who.int · Jan 24
#HealthForAll

For everyone. Everywhere.
Black text on white background. It reads: With you, for you. WHO remains committed to health for all.

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Dr. Heidi Collins Fantasia PhD @hcfantasia.bsky.social · Jan 24
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
www.science.org

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Dr. Heidi Collins Fantasia PhD @hcfantasia.bsky.social · Jan 24
It won't pass but interesting approach

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Mississippi lawmaker introduces 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act'
The bill, which is unlikely to pass, would make it unlawful for “a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”
www.nbcnews.com

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Jan 23
@drtomfrieden.bsky.social

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JAMA @jama.com · Jan 20
Cervical cancer mortality in US women <25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination.

ja.ma/3CfjTPI

#MedSky #OncSky
Figure. Trends in Cervical Cancer Mortality Rates and Number of Cervical Cancer Deaths Among US Women Aged Younger than 25 Years, 1992-2021