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Emma Heffernan
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Anthropologist & nurse. Equality, health, social justice, public health, poverty, SDoH, clinical research, clinical trials, research ethics #SciComm #Bioethics #FBPE
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🚨The #HIV response is unraveling.

@unaids.org modelling warns that the sudden US funding cuts could lead to 6.6 million new infections & 4.2 million AIDS-related deaths by 2029.

✍️ @stefananderson.bsky.social
@gavi.org @un.org @who.int @iasociety.bsky.social
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With Future Of UNAIDS In Question, Top Official Says 'Very Difficult' To Envision 2026 Shutdown - Health Policy Watch
BERLIN — A top UNAIDS official told delegates at the World Health Summit this week that it would be "very difficult" to envision shutting down the agency by
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October 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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WMA has adopted a new resolution calling on the Government of Israel to immediately cease attacks on healthcare personnel, patients, and medical facilities in Gaza.

Full Press Release: lnkd.in/dQMs4TNU

#WMAGA2025 #MedicalEthics #MedSky
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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WMA has adopted a landmark Statement on Artificial and Augmented Intelligence in Medical Care, outlining global ethical principles to guide the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Press Release: www.wma.net/news-post/wo...

#MedicalEthics
October 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Great article by Colin Sheridan in yesterday's Irish Examiner. There must be an end to all of apartheid Israel's crimes against Palestinians, including the Occupied West Bank and in Gaza. There must be self determination, freedom, justice and equality for all Palestinians. #FreePalestine
October 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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"Moving beyond the uncomfortable apathy of medical neutrality is the duty of professionals and their organisations."

Where genocide, healthocide, and atrocities start, medical neutrality ends, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
October 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Two years into the war, and as Israel and Hamas reached a deal raising hopes for the conflict's end, AP photographer Fatima Shbair tells the stories behind some of the most poignant images she made in her homeland, Gaza.
An AP photographer from Gaza shares the stories behind her images of the war
AP photographer Fatima Shbair tells the stories behind some of her most poignant images from covering the war in her homeland of Gaza.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”.

Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448
October 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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"No dataset can truly capture the suffering of colleagues killed while doing their job, of hospitals reduced to rubble, or of patients left without care."

These research authors describe how their study on war injuries in Gaza was born out of necessity
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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"Undermining confidence in one of the few safe and effective pain and fever relief drugs in pregnancy risks causing unintended harm."

Pregnant women are often excluded from clinical trials and evidence gaps enable unsubstantiated claims, @louiseckenny.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
October 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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"The MAGA methodologists are unchecked: their hubris extends to believing that they know best about science and medicine."

The cult of MAGA methodology is out of control, and it’s causing harm, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
October 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Thousands take part in pro-Palestine march in Dublin, calling for sanctions
Thousands take part in pro-Palestine march in Dublin, calling for sanctions
‘I feel optimistic because all we have is to hope,’ Palestinian mother tells crowd
www.irishtimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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66 000 people have been killed & almost 170 000 have been injured in #Gaza.

@who.int estimates that at least 1/4 of those have life-changing injuries that require immediate & ongoing rehabilitation.

I call on all parties to this conflict to choose peace, now.
October 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Surveys show a mismatch between what tier most physician assistants think they can work at and what tier most doctors think they can work at.

There is a mismatch between physician assistants and doctors in confidence and competence
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
September 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A reminder: Not only are there Medicaid cuts, but RFK Jr. is getting personal authority over who to kick off of Medicaid.

Read @juliametraux.bsky.social's report.
September 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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“My concern is that there is going to be a large outbreak of not just measles, but other vaccine-preventable diseases as well, that’s going to end up causing a lot of harm, and possibly deaths in children,” said Dr. Anna Durbin of @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social.

(Published April 2025)
“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline
While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s ...
www.propublica.org
September 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." 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 11:23 AM
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Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
July 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Beginning in the 1960s, a German sexologist was allowed to place foster children under the care of pedophiles. Why did the government support his experiment?
The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles
With the approval of the government, a renowned sexologist ran a dangerous program. How could this happen?
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August 30, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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The Big Idea: why we should embrace AI doctors
The Big Idea: why we should embrace AI doctors
People are understandably wary of new technology, but human error is often more lethal
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM