Wearing my Elizapalooza shirt today to celebrate the FDA approval of the first gene therapy to treat Sanfilippo Syndrome Type A! 12 years in the making! Next step- Advocating for newborn screening to identify these children as neonates and offer treatment when it can make the most difference!

My Podcast Interview Debut on Runaway Country with Alex Wagner. So grateful to have the opportunity to spread the word about public health, misinformation, disinformation and the importance of real science to an audience far beyond my exam rooms and far beyond South Carolina. Thanks,Runaway Country!

Measles Cases SURGING As Kids Go Back To School

YouTube video by Runaway Country with Alex Wagner

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Three 2 month well visits today: Vaccine conversations with all 3 families. All 3 asked if my practice is following the AAP vaccine schedule or the Executive Order schedule. All 3 wanted their child to follow the AAP schedule. All 3 wanted to follow science and not politics. There is hope here.

Today was Dr. Annie Andrews' Birthday. And she spent it working to win her seat in the US Senate. I know Dr. Andrews. She would spend every working hour in the Senate working for people in SC. Let's all help to put her there.

@bsky.app Proud to collaborate with Dr. Martha Edwards and so grateful for the expertise and assistance of @emilymayersc.bsky.social on this opinion piece. Families deserve valid, evidence-based information to make the best decisions for their children. www.ms.now/opinion/cdc-...

Opinion | We are South Carolina pediatricians fighting for parents to get accurate info about vaccines

Martha Edwards and Deborah Greenhouse: Vaccines do not cause autism. We need a CDC that states that as truth.

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Proud to be quoted by the APNews with my hero, Dr @drmmcedwards.bsky.social. We are pediatricians. If the health and safety of children are threatened, we will step up and we will speak out.

Ralph Abraham, the No. 2 official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently told reporters that losing the measles elimination status would be the “cost of doing business.” True. If your business is encouraging the resurgence of preventable diseases.

Fenit Nirappil@fenitn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

South Carolina is now experiencing the nation’s worst measles outbreak since the virus was declared eliminated a quarter century ago. @lenasun.bsky.social and photographer Juan Diego Reyes show what’s happening on the ground wapo.st/4rttZRg

The AAP’s vaccine schedule considers when children are most likely to be exposed to contagious diseases and when children’s immune systems will respond best. This timing has kept millions of kids healthy, so they can focus on growing, playing, and learning.   www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

The House of Medicine stands with science. And with the AAP. Proud to be a member and a leader of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Standing up for children. Standing up for science. Standing up for truth.

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Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations. bit.ly/4r5KbaQ

I went to med school at @EmoryMedicine. Up the street from the CDC. I was in awe of the CDC and those who worked there to promote science and to protect health. Today, the CDC has fallen. In the name of conspiracy theory and disinformation. And I am crushed.

Pediatrician here. Misinformation and disinformation don't become facts just because the CDC posted them. Numerous studies have refuted any link between vaccines and autism. Zero studies have shown any link between vaccines and autism. Real science matters.

"Together", the sculpture welcoming AAP members and visitors to the American Academy of Pediatrics mothership. I know I am home when I see these figures. I am safe. I am with people who have the best interests of children at heart. I can count on these people. Thank you, @ameracadpeds.bsky.social.

VAERS database reports will likely be used by RFK Jr to try to show a link between COVID vaccines and child deaths. But VAERS reports are neither data nor research. They are reports that anyone can submit on anything at any time in any place. They do not and cannot show causation.

A conservative activist was shot in Utah today. Children were shot at school in Colorado today. Both events were horrific and should never have happened. But we can't react to one as a great national tragedy and remain virtually silent about the other. That is what I see happening right now.

Please read this essay to the end. These are the previous directors of the CDC who served under both Republican and Democratic presidents. If you don't believe me, please believe them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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Pretty cool that RFK Jr, with no medical education or experience, can diagnose "mitochondrial challenges" or "inflammation" just by looking at children. I can't do that after med school and many years in pediatric practice. Then again, maybe he's just lying....again.

RFK Jr, who doesn’t have a medical degree, says he can diagnose children just by just looking at them

Kennedy has often raised concerns about the increasing juvenile diabetes and autism rates

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Today's PSA from your friendly neighborhood, science based, evidence driven pediatrician: If someone says they are going to find and announce the "certain" cause of a medical or developmental condition by a specific date, that's not science. That's propaganda, regardless of what their "finding" is.

And RFK Jr is now threatening pediatricians with liability if they follow evidence based vaccine recommendations. He is threatening the people who spend their lives protecting the health and safety of children. We are living in a dystopian alternate reality. www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/v...

RFK Jr. Warns Docs of Liability if They Stray From CDC on Vaccines

'Misleading,' expert says

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My opinion piece in The State on the defunding of mRNA vaccine research. Actions have consequences and the consequences of this one will extend far beyond access to current mRNA vaccines.

How South Carolina will suffer from mRNA vaccine research funding cuts | Opinion

Pediatrician Deborah Greenhouse writes that South Carolina is at risk because of the U.S. government’s decision to defund almost $500 million in mRNA vaccine research funding.

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As the US hits a catastrophic milestone with the highest number of measles cases since the disease was declared eradicated, it is a step in the right direction to see the AAP and others stand up to say that this is not OK and we won't pretend that it is. publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

AAP suing HHS over vaccine policy ‘because we believe children deserve better’

The AAP and other leading medical groups are suing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for making unilateral, unscientific changes to federal vaccine policy they say are an “assault on science, public...

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Today's Call to Action: I can't make it any simpler than this. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY! Call this morning and ask them to vote no on the Big, Horrifically Bad Bill which will strip health care and healthy food from millions of children and families. Ask them to protect children.

AAP calls on U.S. House to reject cuts to Medicaid, SNAP

The budget reconciliation legislation cuts about $1 trillion from Medicaid, and AAP leaders said it will harm children, families and communities.

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My Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott just voted to take health care access away from many of my patients and their families. They voted to strip health care from thousands of their own constituents. I'm having a really hard time coming to grips with that.

RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication? RFK JR: I did not fact check RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?

The Zombie "ACIP" meeting this week will include a presentation on Thimerosol which cites a study on the dangers of vaccines containing Thimerosol. Except oops, the study didn't exist. Welcome to "ACIP" 2025.

Exclusive-US CDC vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says

(Reuters) -A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a ...

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We had hoped that the Senate version of the "Big Beautiful Bill" would reign in the devastating cuts to Medicaid that put children and children's hospitals at great risk. Instead, the Senate bill makes these cuts more catastrophic. This is an all hands on deck moment. Reach out to your Senators now!

Senate Bill Would Make Deep Cuts to Medicaid, Setting Up Fight With House

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As a South Carolina pediatrician who has fought against some of the awful legislation this guy has supported I just want to remind you: Not trans. Not a drag queen.

Republican SC Rep. RJ May charged with distributing child sex abuse material

South Carolina Rep. RJ May, a Lexington County Republican who cofounded the House Freedom Caucus, was indicted on federal charges of distributing child sex abuse material. Following indictment, House ...

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This one is a gut punch. Four ACIP members receive termination notices. Maybe there is nothing nefarious here. Maybe this is just a clerical issue. Maybe science can somehow still prevail. But if not, this is our all hands on deck moment. Our nation's health stands in the crossfire.

Today I #WearOrange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day. And today I will talk to families about firearm safety and I will give out free gun locks- just like I do every other day. So please store all firearms locked and unloaded with the ammunition locked elsewhere.Thank you!

As we all share in the political comedy playing out today, I'd like to take a serious moment to remind everyone in South Carolina that @drannieandrews.com is running for US Senate. And she actually truly wants to help people in South Carolina.

When in doubt, lie. And if you don't have the data to support your lies, simply make up the studies and the data as well. It's the MAHA way. #MedSky #PedSky

'Make America Healthy Again' report updated to remove nonexistent studies

The White House downplayed questions about its flagship report on children's health, but edited the document Thursday after authors listed in the paper confirmed it cited studies that do not exist.But...

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