Interesting read: COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Important to share these stories as TB is a serious but preventable and treatable disease.

Dr. Vivek Murthy does a good job here with public education and risk communication regarding the U.S. Surgeon General's advisory on alcohol and cancer. #alcohol #cancer #publichealth

Everyone deserves a path to recovery from substance use disorders, and treatment can be the first step. You can make a difference in the lives of your patients. Learn more >> ow.ly/7FuR50UzQ9f #TreatmentMonth #FindTreatment #SUDTreatmentMonth #RecoveryIsPossible

Flu season is in full swing, but it's not too late to get vaccinated! You can get both your flu and COVID-19 shots at the same appointment. Vaccination helps keep you and your loved ones out of the doctor’s office and out of the hospital. Get the facts: ivaccinate.org/map-flu-season…

I share information with News Channel 3 WWMT-TV about #birdflu here. Although individual risk for #H5N1 is currently low, greater preparedness, monitoring and testing in humans and animals is needed. #biosecurity

The potential for a pandemic is low until it is not. Individual risk of exposure to #H5N1 can be low even as more animal and human infections occur - the latter of which increases probability of the emergence of a novel virus with increased clinical severity or transmissibility.

Here is a better way to assess #H5N1 human health risk across different populations and scenarios from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at cori.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/avia…. Click or zoom in below. #preparedness #PublicHealth

An investigation is being launched after an individual at a local school was diagnosed with tuberculosis. bit.ly/3Euvxa7

1 diagnosed with active TB at Kalamazoo Central HS woodtv.com/news/kalamazoo…

Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise go.nature.com/3EqQLWo

Dismantling USAID is antithetical to West Michigan values and a virtuous America. It's in our interest to build businesses, expand markets and alleviate suffering and death abroad. Rep. Bill Huizenga please hear Andrew Natsios, USAID chief under George W. Bush: youtu.be/3jMq5XzVBng?si…

Dismantling USAID is a moral blunder and strategic mistake. Misinformation and disinformation fomenting its desmise are hurting America, its soft power and real human beings. It's in America's self interest to alleviate suffering and death abroad. Partners In Health nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opi…

As both a citizen and physician, I am appalled by the harm described in this affidavit towards a civil servant and his pregnant wife at the hands of his own government and employer. It is abandonment. It is wrong.

Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵

Medicaid covered 41% of all births nationally in 2023, including 47% of births in rural communities. kff.org/medicaid/issue…

Patients with moderate or severe opioid use disorder should be offered buprenorphine treatment. Read more about common questions and answers about buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder: bit.ly/3GrFO7Z #FamilyMedicine #AFPJournal

You don’t notice public health—until it fails. The reason you don’t worry about smallpox? Or cholera in your tap water? It’s because decades of public health work made those dangers disappear. But here’s the thing: diseases don’t just go away forever. They come back if we stop

There is so much to say, but with US vaccine policy in the news so much, I'll start here. msms.org/About-MSMS/New…

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