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Mia
@minicia.bsky.social
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Wife, mother, Family Doctor and Addiction medicine specialist. Lawrence FMR residency grad, UMass Chan Med School grad. I also run, hike, knit, spin, crochet and sew. 🧶 my opinions are mine.
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My friends Loren and Rochelle. 💔
The stakes for the NIH and US science could not be high-er. It is impossible to overestimate the transformative impact of federal funding on science and medicine. The NIH proudly counts 174 Nobel Prize laureates among its research staff or grantees.& NIH-funded Nobel laureates have achieved groundbreaking discoveries, from the invention of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and the development of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) gene editing to the identification of hepatitis B and C viruses, telomeres, restriction enzymes, and prions. Their research elucidated fundamental mechanisms that led to lifesaving antiretrovirals, vaccines, statins, and cancer therapies, advancing medical breakthroughs that have benefited every US family, regardless of income or political affiliation. What is at stake is not conceptual or theoretical or ivory tower but instead intimate and personal. This is about the health of your grandmother and grandfather, your mother and father, your sister and brother, your children and grand-children, and your spouse. This is realism, not alarmism.
February 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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We are still rejoicing that the beloved MMWR is back to regular weekly cadence. This week's report has two publications - one on the first case of mpox Clade 1b in the Americas, and another on influenza seroprevalence among bovine veterinarians. You can find both here: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...
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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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February 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I’m heartbroken and furious in equal measure. He doesn’t know the difference eternally Medicare and Medicaid but is now in charge of both.
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The Coordinating Committee of Defend Public Health has released the following statement about the confirmation of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The coordinating committee of Defend Public Health, an all-volunteer network of physicians and other healthcare workers, scientists and public health advocates, issued the following statement in response to today's U.S. Senate vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services: "The Senate today confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the most unqualified person ever chosen to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, but the fight to preserve and expand compassionate, science-based health policy does not end with his confirmation: This fight has only begun. We hope Mr. Kennedy will reconsider his embrace of disinformation and conspiracy theories, but if he follows through on the ideas he's embraced in recent years, many will suffer and die, and the senators who voted to confirm him will have blood on their hands. "The HHS secretary represents just one piece of a very large federal health and research apparatus. The Trump administration has been attacking science, hiding data and destroying compassionate, life-enhancing public health policies on many fronts, and we will continue to oppose these potentially deadly actions every way we can.
February 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
minicia.bsky.social
I can’t keep track of the bad stuff but we adopted a rescue puppy and he’s awfully cute.
February 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
minicia.bsky.social
CDC website is being scrubbed of anything related to STI treatment, HIV prevention, gender care, probably vaccine stuff. Dark dark days. We at work trying to download pdfs and save invaluable clinical resources.
January 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
minicia.bsky.social
Honestly I’m at a complete loss right now like what the actual fuck they stopped the Medicaid payments to states this AM?!?
But now it’s been put on hold I guess. 🤮
January 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Had a meeting at work yesterday where we talked about what to do if ICE shows up at our clinic (FQHC in MA) and only my hat in progress kept me from crying. Good news: HIPAA >> ICE (for now). #familymed #darktimes #knitting
#musselburghhat in Jack O Lantern colorway from @gaugedyeworks
January 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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if you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now, professionally?

1. i was interested in genetics but unsure
2. History
3. Never changed
4. Writer/creative writing prof
January 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM