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Catherine Arnst

@cathyarnst

Writer/Communications strategist specializing in medicine/health care. Formerly @UnitedHospFund, @RWJF, @BW, @Reuters. Opinions expressed my own.

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Seems #Antisemitism isn't the biggest problem: The responses to Zohran Kwame Mamdani electoral triumph were the latest examples of how far-right Republicans in Congress have become overt in their use of bigoted language and ethnically offensive tropes nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/…

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Changes to US #vaccines policy under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may make it harder for both Americans and millions of people overseas to access the shots, and puts the $30 billion US vaccine market at risk. qz.com/vaccines-rober… via Quartz

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On July 1 America will abandon the fight against global famine. Most Americans won’t notice because after 6 decades, #USAID was so efficient at stopping millions of deaths worldwide that most Americans didn’t know humanitarian disasters were occurring nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opi…

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"The ban on transgender troops is blatantly discriminatory. It has nothing to do with the policy’s stated justification of military readiness." by Anthony Guerrero, an instructor at U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a conservative evangelical Republican. nytimes.com/2025/06/30/opi…

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"One guy from Japan and one guy from Venezuela, standing on a field in LA, playing a 180-year-old game that was invented in NY after evolving from another game imported from England. Isn’t that quintessentially American?" Jonathan V. Last honors #ShoheiOhtani thebulwark.com/p/bigger-than-…

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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost *14M* lives thru 2030. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it saved *92M* lives. 

Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost *14M* lives thru 2030. 
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Because the cruelty is the point: federal dollars for after-school and summer-school programs—about $1.3 billion annually—support 1.4 million students, mostly lower income, about 20% of all students in after-school programs nationally. #education nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/…

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They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation

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"Congress is no longer in the business of thoughtful legislating. Its role has been reduced to putting political points on the board for the president." Insights from insider Brendan Buck nytimes.com/2025/07/04/opi…

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The BBB bill allows more medications to be exempt from Medicare’s price negotiation program. Manufacturers will be able to keep those prices higher and cut savings from the program by nearly $5 billion over a decade. #BigPharma nytimes.com/2025/07/03/hea…

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“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2nd. In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant.

“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” wrote five former NWS directors from both Democratic and Republican administrations in an open letter on May 2nd.

In Houston, 44% of NWS positions are vacant.
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*taps the sign* 30% of American jobs do not offer health benefits, and 49% of employed workers can't afford healthcare without going into debt. Every American is a vulnerable American when healthcare is restricted, tied to employment, and for-profit.

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"In just a few months, the Trump administration has undermined US dominance in science, built up over many decades. The federal funding that made America the world’s science leader is threatened with crippling reductions"-Bruce Partridge Haverford College wapo.st/44CVsWM

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A proposed $18-billion cut to the NIH 2026 federal budget has frozen or terminated thousands of grants, sparking widespread alarm among researchers. Scientists warn the cuts could lead to a major “brain drain,” via Niamh Ordner latimes.com/science/story/…

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Joyce Linehan knows first hand that weight loss drugs can be life-saving. "Denying patients access to these medications is cruel and, in the long-term, counterproductive." #Healthinsurance #obesity bostonglobe.com/2025/07/07/opi… via The Boston Globe

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Database created by GrantWatch details $9.5 billion in grant funding cut by HHS.gov: How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers, by Steven H. Woolf MD VCU nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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As NIH begins to reinstate grants under court order, institutions in blue states are back to a semblance of normalcy. Others, mostly in red states, are left out. #ScienceMatters statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih… via STAT