Dora Steel
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USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
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August 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
@mgtmccartney.bsky.social you are the most sensible voice talking about screening I know. May I contact you with some questions about newborn screening? (Paediatric registrar)
July 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@mgtmccartney.bsky.social you are the most sensible voice talking about screening I know. May I contact you with some questions about newborn screening? (Paediatric registrar)
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KJ Muldoon was born in August with a rare, life-threatening metabolic disease. Six months later, he received a Crispr treatment made just for him to address the disease-causing misspelling in his DNA. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-baby...
A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time
Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon’s rare genetic disorder within six months. It could be a blueprint for potentially life-saving, gene-editing Crispr therapies.
www.wired.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
KJ Muldoon was born in August with a rare, life-threatening metabolic disease. Six months later, he received a Crispr treatment made just for him to address the disease-causing misspelling in his DNA. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-baby...
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Funding cuts mean essential and lifesaving healthcare services and vaccinations, among other critical health issues, have shut down, leaving thousands without treatment worldwide.
This isn’t just a policy change - it’s a death sentence.
www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...
This isn’t just a policy change - it’s a death sentence.
www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...
March 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Funding cuts mean essential and lifesaving healthcare services and vaccinations, among other critical health issues, have shut down, leaving thousands without treatment worldwide.
This isn’t just a policy change - it’s a death sentence.
www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...
This isn’t just a policy change - it’s a death sentence.
www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...
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If even Germany is embracing higher spending, why on earth can’t Labour? | William Keegan
If even Germany is embracing higher spending, why on earth can’t Labour? | William Keegan
Russia has pushed Europe into a quasi-Keynesian approach to the defence budget. Only Britain insists on cutting help to the sick to pay for security
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
If even Germany is embracing higher spending, why on earth can’t Labour? | William Keegan
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Where does TrumpElon think innovation for all their favorite biotech corporations comes from? PCR only exists because somebody was looking for bacteria in hot springs at Yellowstone. I’m just a private practice ophthalmologist who barely understands p values but even I know this shit is important.
This is my institution. These are the people I work with making these decisions. The situation is heartbreaking. Public medical schools have no other choice; there is no other source of funding, and everyone in academia is at extreme risk right now.
March 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Where does TrumpElon think innovation for all their favorite biotech corporations comes from? PCR only exists because somebody was looking for bacteria in hot springs at Yellowstone. I’m just a private practice ophthalmologist who barely understands p values but even I know this shit is important.
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Wannabe cheered up? Solar is currently the biggest single generation source for the UK grid. Wind plus solar plus nuclear plus storage and we can do this.
March 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Wannabe cheered up? Solar is currently the biggest single generation source for the UK grid. Wind plus solar plus nuclear plus storage and we can do this.
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This was 3 weeks ago www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This was 3 weeks ago www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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A scientist I spoke w/for a story on why the deadliest crises go unseen, is now scared for his life in Congo. He once told me:
“In the DRC, in Somalia, in CAR, in South Sudan, we wonder, are we so different?” he said. “Do we have blue blood and do others have red blood?”
undark.org/2024/01/24/c...
“In the DRC, in Somalia, in CAR, in South Sudan, we wonder, are we so different?” he said. “Do we have blue blood and do others have red blood?”
undark.org/2024/01/24/c...
How the World’s Deadliest Crises Go Unseen
In the Central African Republic, researchers found an astronomical death rate. Could a major emergency be invisible?
undark.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A scientist I spoke w/for a story on why the deadliest crises go unseen, is now scared for his life in Congo. He once told me:
“In the DRC, in Somalia, in CAR, in South Sudan, we wonder, are we so different?” he said. “Do we have blue blood and do others have red blood?”
undark.org/2024/01/24/c...
“In the DRC, in Somalia, in CAR, in South Sudan, we wonder, are we so different?” he said. “Do we have blue blood and do others have red blood?”
undark.org/2024/01/24/c...
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New post: A government of small change mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-go...
After Labour's October Budget planned current public spending for 2029/30, at 39.7% of GDP is below its level in 2222/3 (40.7%). Stasis is rightly not going to appeal to voters.
After Labour's October Budget planned current public spending for 2029/30, at 39.7% of GDP is below its level in 2222/3 (40.7%). Stasis is rightly not going to appeal to voters.
A government of small change
Since the end of the 1970s, when a new party has taken power in the UK they have started with a reasonably loud bang. Thatcher brought mon...
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February 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
New post: A government of small change mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-go...
After Labour's October Budget planned current public spending for 2029/30, at 39.7% of GDP is below its level in 2222/3 (40.7%). Stasis is rightly not going to appeal to voters.
After Labour's October Budget planned current public spending for 2029/30, at 39.7% of GDP is below its level in 2222/3 (40.7%). Stasis is rightly not going to appeal to voters.
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I’m tired of hearing about bats. Do you want to hear a story about jumping spiders and the town that disappeared?
I think I might be breaking this story – do come be the first to read it.
I think I might be breaking this story – do come be the first to read it.
February 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I’m tired of hearing about bats. Do you want to hear a story about jumping spiders and the town that disappeared?
I think I might be breaking this story – do come be the first to read it.
I think I might be breaking this story – do come be the first to read it.
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For the love of god just raise taxes.
Rachel Reeves may need to consider ‘very severe’ cuts, says former BoE economist
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
Rachel Reeves may need to consider ‘very severe’ cuts, says former BoE economist - Politics.co.uk
The chancellor may need to consider “very severe” spending cuts if the recent rise in UK borrowing costs erodes her fiscal headroom, a former Bank of England economist has said. Sir John Gieve, a form...
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January 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
For the love of god just raise taxes.
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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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So this is the new great idea🤔
I’m pretty sure if Sarah had seen a GP she wouldn’t have needed to have a CT scan, no need to speak to the ENT registrar & yes it could be managed in the community
Why does NHS England always underestimate the skills of GPs?
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
I’m pretty sure if Sarah had seen a GP she wouldn’t have needed to have a CT scan, no need to speak to the ENT registrar & yes it could be managed in the community
Why does NHS England always underestimate the skills of GPs?
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
January 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
So this is the new great idea🤔
I’m pretty sure if Sarah had seen a GP she wouldn’t have needed to have a CT scan, no need to speak to the ENT registrar & yes it could be managed in the community
Why does NHS England always underestimate the skills of GPs?
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
I’m pretty sure if Sarah had seen a GP she wouldn’t have needed to have a CT scan, no need to speak to the ENT registrar & yes it could be managed in the community
Why does NHS England always underestimate the skills of GPs?
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
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A senior ambulance source has just now told me there are 400 ambulances waiting over an hour outside A&Es across England right now.
I'm hearing there is lots of struggling ambulance services today. Most at highest level of pressures and reports of 1hr 20 waits for cat 2 999 calls (thats suspected stroke and heart attacks). Flu levels may peak in next week too.
December 30, 2024 at 3:56 PM
A senior ambulance source has just now told me there are 400 ambulances waiting over an hour outside A&Es across England right now.
Does anyone know why my feed is two-thirds cats? I don't mind cats, but I'd quite like room for other things.
December 3, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Does anyone know why my feed is two-thirds cats? I don't mind cats, but I'd quite like room for other things.