Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
@mdattalo.bsky.social
House call doctor, public health aging advocate, dog-lover, gardener, stargazer
Please attend and help promote this rally for Veterans Health Care in Madison, WI - organized by a retired VA physician. Please share!
April 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Please attend and help promote this rally for Veterans Health Care in Madison, WI - organized by a retired VA physician. Please share!
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Powerful voices from VA clinicians under attack. Veterans are going to see dramatic changes. The suicide rate is going to climb. Homelessness will go up. SecVA Collins knows and doesn't care. Great piece from my friend @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social. Free read. open.substack.com/pub/onoffens...
“They’re Forcing Us Out”: VA Doctors Warn of Sabotage and Mass Exodus
Frontline VA physicians say they're being pushed out by chaos, retaliation, and political interference. Here’s what whistleblowers want you to know.
open.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Powerful voices from VA clinicians under attack. Veterans are going to see dramatic changes. The suicide rate is going to climb. Homelessness will go up. SecVA Collins knows and doesn't care. Great piece from my friend @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social. Free read. open.substack.com/pub/onoffens...
April 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
1- Around 43% of people living with #dementia (PLWD) experience loneliness.
Not surprisingly, living alone and having depression put PLWD at even higher risk of loneliness.
Loneliness also predicted conversion from MCI to dementia.
#geronsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Not surprisingly, living alone and having depression put PLWD at even higher risk of loneliness.
Loneliness also predicted conversion from MCI to dementia.
#geronsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
1- Around 43% of people living with #dementia (PLWD) experience loneliness.
Not surprisingly, living alone and having depression put PLWD at even higher risk of loneliness.
Loneliness also predicted conversion from MCI to dementia.
#geronsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Not surprisingly, living alone and having depression put PLWD at even higher risk of loneliness.
Loneliness also predicted conversion from MCI to dementia.
#geronsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.
An urgent argument for the HPV vaccine
Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.
www.npr.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Data shows it can prevent six types of cancer. But anti-vaccine activists, including U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have helped dampen its usage.
March 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Duckworth: "Donald Trump has fired more veterans than any other president in our recent history. This has to stop, because these are hard-working people."
February 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Duckworth: "Donald Trump has fired more veterans than any other president in our recent history. This has to stop, because these are hard-working people."
February 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
ProPublica found that some of the largest health insurers have created a playbook that prevents people from getting the mental health care they need.
Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm
Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm
February 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
ProPublica found that some of the largest health insurers have created a playbook that prevents people from getting the mental health care they need.
Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm
Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm
February 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
February 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Have the @DOGE folks made it to the part of the system yet that shows private Medicare Advantage plans get paid by the government 22% more than costs would be in traditional Medicare?
February 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Have the @DOGE folks made it to the part of the system yet that shows private Medicare Advantage plans get paid by the government 22% more than costs would be in traditional Medicare?
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Over 1300 CDC employees, including the entire Epidemic Intelligence Service were fired without cause on Friday.
At the same time, we are in the midst of an uncontrolled nationwide outbreak of H5N1.
There is currently a measles outbreak in Texas & NM (1/3)
#medsky #publichealthsky
#obgynsky
At the same time, we are in the midst of an uncontrolled nationwide outbreak of H5N1.
There is currently a measles outbreak in Texas & NM (1/3)
#medsky #publichealthsky
#obgynsky
February 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Over 1300 CDC employees, including the entire Epidemic Intelligence Service were fired without cause on Friday.
At the same time, we are in the midst of an uncontrolled nationwide outbreak of H5N1.
There is currently a measles outbreak in Texas & NM (1/3)
#medsky #publichealthsky
#obgynsky
At the same time, we are in the midst of an uncontrolled nationwide outbreak of H5N1.
There is currently a measles outbreak in Texas & NM (1/3)
#medsky #publichealthsky
#obgynsky
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
February 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Medicaid pays for the majority of long-term care.
Republicans want to throw seniors and people with disabilities out onto the street — to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Republicans want to throw seniors and people with disabilities out onto the street — to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
House Republicans just released their budget resolution - which keys up their reconciliation bills, which can avoid a filibuster and be passed with a simple majority. This is VERY real.
They are calling to cut Medicaid by AT LEAST $880 billion, and to cut SNAP by AT LEAST 20%.
They are calling to cut Medicaid by AT LEAST $880 billion, and to cut SNAP by AT LEAST 20%.
February 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Medicaid pays for the majority of long-term care.
Republicans want to throw seniors and people with disabilities out onto the street — to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Republicans want to throw seniors and people with disabilities out onto the street — to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Scientists should think ahead to this too. The court challenges to the Trump NIH are fine. But what’s the endgame if the court rulings are ignored in whole or in part?
From me: We're rapidly moving to a point where whether Trump will comply with an adverse court order is the only question that matters. The early signs are not encouraging, and it will take more than a court saying "I demand you" to pull out of that crisis.
prospect.org/justice/2025...
prospect.org/justice/2025...
Will Trump Continue to Defy Court Orders?
As long as nobody will stop him, why wouldn’t he?
prospect.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Scientists should think ahead to this too. The court challenges to the Trump NIH are fine. But what’s the endgame if the court rulings are ignored in whole or in part?
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Russell Vought, the far-right extremist appointed to run CFPB, has closed the building this week and told employees not to come to work or do any work.
They are illegally ending government agencies. NSF and NIH will be next.
They are illegally ending government agencies. NSF and NIH will be next.
What scientists may not realize:
What happened at USAID is both illegal and unconstitutional. Flatly so. It is the first action of a coup by pretend-legal means. They are moving on to Dept of Education, and CFPB. This is an extraconstitutional coup. NIH is in their sights.
What happened at USAID is both illegal and unconstitutional. Flatly so. It is the first action of a coup by pretend-legal means. They are moving on to Dept of Education, and CFPB. This is an extraconstitutional coup. NIH is in their sights.
February 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Russell Vought, the far-right extremist appointed to run CFPB, has closed the building this week and told employees not to come to work or do any work.
They are illegally ending government agencies. NSF and NIH will be next.
They are illegally ending government agencies. NSF and NIH will be next.
February 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Reposted by Melissa Dattalo, MD MPH
Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
February 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
February 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM
February 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Elon Musk is grifting the American taxpayers. I'm fighting back with the ELON MUSK Act to ban "Special Government Employees" like Musk from holding government contracts.
youtube.com/shorts/4lIr_...
youtube.com/shorts/4lIr_...
Introducing the ELON MUSK Act
YouTube video by repmarkpocan
youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Elon Musk is grifting the American taxpayers. I'm fighting back with the ELON MUSK Act to ban "Special Government Employees" like Musk from holding government contracts.
youtube.com/shorts/4lIr_...
youtube.com/shorts/4lIr_...
February 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM