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Upcoming Conference: Public health and technology -- NextMed Health, March 30-Aug 2 Sticky

Mar
06

Conference alert: NextMed Health is a unique cross-disciplinary international conference exploring the use of accelerating technologies, and their potential to improve the future of health and medicine, including community public health, worldwide.  It is being held  March 30-April 2nd at the historic Hotel del Coronado located on the beach in San Diego, California.

Sessions include  the use of technology to improve “Public, Global and Planetary Health,” and “Accelerating Health Access and Equality.” Among the distinguished faculty speakers are famed epidemiologist Larry Brilliant of the Skoll Foundation, Prof. Chris Mason of Cornell Weill, and Eric Topol of Scripps. Learn more at NextMed Health 2025 and use registration code 'Resilient' to save $500. 

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Texas measles outbreak: doctors try to counter RFK Jr misinformation about vitamin A

Mar
10

Doctors push back as parents embrace Kennedy and vitamin A in Texas measles outbreak

March 8 (Reuters) - As a measles outbreak spreads across West Texas, Dr. Ana Montanez is fighting an uphill battle to convince some parents that vitamin A - touted by vaccine critics as effective against the highly contagious virus - will not protect their children.
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Trump administration's firings of CDC employees hurts local health departments

Mar
10

The U.S. public health system has long been under strain, stymied by declines in funding as well as employees. And so state and local public health departments around the nation — tasked with monitoring and responding to disease outbreaks that threaten to sicken the masses — have relied on workers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help.

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U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Raise Danger for Disease Outbreaks Spreading Internationally

Mar
10

Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened animals shipped across borders.

The Trump administration’s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to threatening viruses and bacteria.

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Trump administration imposes new restrictions on retaining senior scientists

Feb
27

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

The Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.

It’s the Trump administration’s latest blow to NIH’s $5.2 billion intramural program. Less well known than the agency’s $39 billion extramural program, which gives grants to researchers at outside institutions, it includes basic research labs and a research hospital that treats patients with rare diseases—and helps showcase NIH’s work and build support from Congress, those familiar with it say.

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