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Reporter here for CIDRAP, covering infectious diseases. If you work at HHS, CDC, or NIH in infectious disease research/prevention, have recently been terminated, and want to share your experience, you can reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at cvd.76

It's becoming increasingly clear that what fires Trump up more than anything is the ability to move the market on his whims alone.

My latest for CIDRAP News. Come for Brad Spellberg's views on why "shorter is better," stay for Steven the 3-toed sloth.

RFK Jr.'s comments on vitamin A, steroids, and cod liver oil as treatments for measles are "extremely damaging because the impression it leaves to consumers is that there is a treatment available for measles, when in fact there is not," former FDA head Scott Gottlieb, MD 🇺🇸 says at

Why shorter is better "It's the same efficacy, but safer and with less selection for resistance." "If you're going to give antibiotics to people who don't need them, at least do us the courtesy of doing it for a brief period of time." Brad Spellberg cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-…

Giving this a boost for all the #AntibioticStewardship and #AMR folks out there.

Fitzgerald spent part of her day Wednesday on a call with pediatric researchers whose RECOVER grants were terminated. “For a lot of the researchers on the call, they kind of felt like this was a death knell for RECOVER entirely,” Fitzgerald says.

Digging in the dirt: Scientists discover a new antibiotic compound from an old source An antibiotic peptide named lariocidin—named for its knotted, lasso-like chemical structure—has a unique mechanism of action cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-… Photo courtesy of McMaster University

Large study ties early-life antibiotic exposure to higher risk of asthma, allergies, other conditions The authors of the observational study say the findings highlight the need for more judicious antibiotic prescribing in children under age 2. cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-…

"All these physiologic systems are not fully formed at birth, but they develop in the early years of life..But what we now know is that the microbiome is the partner of the host in this development…and the microbiome is affecting the host in ways..” cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-…

RFK's new proposed system for vaccine approval & safety monitoring begs crucial questions. Never fear ⁦CIDRAP⁩ created Vaccine Integrity Project to help Americans better follow the discussion and watch for key developments cidrap.umn.edu/viewpoint-prop… cidrap.umn.edu/viewpoint-prop…

Study highlights threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in cancer patients The proportion of drug-resistant bacteria, and incidence rates of multidrug-resistant pathogens, were up to three times higher in cancer outpatients than those without cancer. cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-…

"We were really surprised when we started digging into the outpatient data, because one of the reasons that we move #cancer patients to outpatient settings is because you have less exposure to things that you may get in the hospital" via CIDRAP #AMR cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-…

In the pre-antibiotic era, it didn’t matter if you were a pauper or the president’s son: When it came to bacterial infections, treatment options were limited, crude, and largely ineffective. Learn more about past challenges and new opportunities: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #AMR

“There have been 258 placebo-controlled clinical trials of vaccines” cnn.com/2025/06/05/hea…

Vaccine RCT spreadsheet aims to show the data, dispel myths about vaccines In an effort to combat misinformation, a group of volunteers have compiled a growing list of randomized controlled trials conducted for licensed vaccines. cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-…

Really grateful CIDRAP covered our volunteer project reviewing vaccine RCTs. We're up to 335 trials with >5.8 M participants and counting. "Essentially every childhood vaccine has been tested in placebo-controlled trials of some sort." Brad Spellberg cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-…

“Essentially every childhood vaccine has been tested in placebo-controlled trials of some sort.” cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-…

In my latest for CIDRAP News, I spoke with Jake Scott, MD about the Vaccine RCT project. Please give it a read!