Emily Laber-Warren
@elaberwarren.bsky.social
Health/sci journalism @newmarkjschool, she/her. Social issues, climate, natural wonders 🌳 Proud to personally host trillions of friendly microbes 🦠
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... Entire departments studying chronic diseases and environmental problems were cut.—isn’t chronic disease what RFK said he wanted to address?
Trump Administration Live Updates: Mass Layoffs of Federal Health Workers Begin
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Nearly all of the more than 350 drugs approved between 2010 and 2019 can trace their development to federal funding. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
The entire future of public health is now at stake
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the country’s new health leadership team is committing that cardinal American error: seeing individuals as autonomous & inviolable units & defining everything outside individual control as either irrelevant or a violation of bodily autonomy. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
The entire future of public health is now at stake
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www.cleveland.com/medical/2025... proud of my Newmark J school alum Zack Smith
Trump’s proposed NIH cuts threaten Northeast Ohio’s biomedical research industry
The state's life sciences industry, which generated $3.3 billion in economic activity in 2023, could be severely impacted by NIH funding cuts.
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WHO issues starkest warning yet on fallout from U.S. withdrawal of aid for global health
Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, saying it is threatening to reverse years of progress worldwide.
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Supporting small produce farmers who provide food to low income people is "nonessential"? So, tell us, what is essential? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/b...
Farms, Food Banks Cut Off Guard By Spending Cuts
Promising a return to “fiscally responsible initiatives,” the Agriculture Department ended two Biden-era programs that paid farmers to provide food to schools and low-income families.
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Famed novelist Roald Dahl's daughter, Olivia, died from measles encephalitis at the age of seven, in 1962, before the measles vaccine was widely available. HHS Secretary RFK Jr. claims that healthy well nourished people don't die of measles. That is not true. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
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So disturbing — Over the past five years, more than 1,200 people died after they got close to the top & were skipped, The Times found. It is possible that their doctors would have decided the organ wasn’t a good fit for them, but they were denied a chance to find out. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored
The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.
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Government agencies are of the people by the people for the people. It’s a beautiful thing to use our pooled tax dollars to solve communal problems. Destroying that vision and those programs is a violent amputation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
Horticulturalists, Biologists, Engineers: Federal ‘Bloat’ or Valued Experts?
President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.
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The harms are incalculable—apparently that’s the point: Destruction: “We have bald eagles around today because there were endangered species biologists all those decades ago who figured out, ‘This is how we save bald eagles,’” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
Horticulturalists, Biologists, Engineers: Federal ‘Bloat’ or Valued Experts?
President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.
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“It seems to me that the motivating factor here is punishment,” he said. “It’s a form of assertive action designed to bring a set of institutions ideologically to heel.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
Horticulturalists, Biologists, Engineers: Federal ‘Bloat’ or Valued Experts?
President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.
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“No data, no problem. No problem, no solution — and no funding,” Willoughby said. “When the data doesn’t exist, you don’t have to acknowledge the problem.” @rebeccaklar.bsky.social @bloomberg.com @jeffgreen.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
A 60-Year-Old Workplace Diversity Measure Threatened Under Trump
Jeff Green is a reporter for Bloomberg News’ Equality team. He covers topics from DEI to the pay gap and CEO misconduct. Rebecca Klar is a reporter for Bloomberg Law's labor team, focused on workplace...
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And so it begins....MAHA here we come @sherylnyt.bsky.social @by-cjewett.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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