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This is ESSENTIAL viewing if you want to understand how rFKJr going wild is impacting health, food security, science and care. 🧪

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.

It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

"What Does EDI Mean for Pre-Clinical Research?". Join us at the TC3's "EDI in #Cannabis & #Cannabinoid #Research" Workshop to learn from distinguished faculty, trainees and professionals. 🗓️ April 22 - 23, 2025 📍Chestnut Conference Centre at @uoft.bsky.social. Register here: tinyurl.com/44rasves.

I am not undergoing chemo, but I am in a targeted therapy in a clinical trial. I can tell you that so many of my fellow warriors from my cancer support group were horrified when NIH was getting hit by all of this. They are literally taking away any chances of survival for a lot of people.

Choroid plexus is often lost during tissue sectioning and overall anatomy can be difficult if not impossible to reconstruct. Here we observe the vascular anatomy of human choroid plexus as if through a jeweler’s loupe. Sample courtesy of Matthew Schrag and Neil Dani. #FluorescenceFriday

🚨 I have been working with several addiction scientists and clinicians through the Addiction Science Defense Network (www.npscoalition.org/projects/add...) to craft a statement of concern about recent executive orders and actions that can be shared with members of congress.

Is there a difference in the impact of tobacco cigarette users and e-cigarette users on brain morphometry?

Learn all about it in this recent NPP paper:

www.nature.com/artic...

On Mar 12, Burkina Faso strengthened its fight against tobacco use by implementing a new decree.🛑The new measure requires cigarette packs to display graphic health warnings covering <80% of the package, alongside less attractive colors.
#TobaccoControl #PublicHealth #WestAfrica

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Recruitment of postbacs & postdocs in the NIH IRP has resumed. I have no additional info beyond what is publicly stated on the website. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Economists point out that cuts to federally-funded scientific research will leave Americans poorer, less healthy, and less productive, while threatening U.S. competitiveness in fields like AI. Read more in this article from the NYTimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

📰Canada introduces 2 new policies to reduce tobacco use to <5% by 2035:
1️⃣New tobacco charges regulations will require tobacco companies - not taxpayers - to fund tobacco cessation efforts.
2️⃣$12M investment to support 8 substance use & addiction programs.
#TobaccoPolicy #HealthCanada

HHS laid off experts at FDA on sterile manufacturing for drugs. This includes eye drops sold at US drugstores. Some of you remember the tainted eye drops scandal in 2023 that incl some deaths & blindness due to unsafe manufacturing practices overseas. Sterile manufacturing is critical: ⬇️ #medsky

'The results show that mitochondria, which generate the energy that powers cells, differ in type and density in different parts of the brain. For example, the evolutionarily oldest brain regions have a lower density of mitochondria than newer regions.'
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Roald Dahl wrote this letter about losing his daughter *39 years ago*. RFK, and the politics he promotes, will inflict this unimaginable pain on many parents, if they get their way.