💉Vaccines are safe, effective, and save lives. ✅ Science > politics ✅ “Cumulative effect” = myth ✅ Skipping vaccines = risk ✅ Herd immunity matters ✅ Confusion may affect insurance coverage Staying healthy protects us all. 🇺🇸 🎥 Watch: www.fox32chicago.com/video/1668484 #VaccinesWork #TrustScience

Vaccines: Ask the Doctor — The Truth Behind the Confusion and Controversy

There's plenty of confusion surrounding vaccines and the misinformation is spreading. Tonight in a special report, Sylvia Perez breaks down exactly what's changed under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secret...

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📺 Tune in to FOX32 TONIGHT! I’ll be joining the fab Sylvia Perez to talk about the latest updates in vaccines—and what they mean for you and your family. From measles to COVID to RSV, we’re breaking it all down. 💉 Bottom line: Vaccines are safe, effective, and they save lives.

What does advocacy look like? Sometimes it looks like this. An Emmy nomination, a red carpet, and a story that desperately needed to be told. Honored to stand alongside the incredible team behind “What’s My Life Worth.” #Emmys #HealthCareVoices #NYT

The AMA's House of Delegates has adopted an emergency resolution opposing RFK Jr.'s move to gut the federal vaccine advisory council. The nation's top doctors association will seek a U.S. Senate investigation of his action, as well as alternate vaccine advice from elsewhere to invest in.

AMA opposes RFK Jr.'s dismantling of vaccine panel, seeks Senate investigation

Delegates resolved that the nation's largest doctors group will advocate in support of the longstanding ACIP structure.

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Realized something today: maybe autotune got so popular because an entire generation was raised on Alvin and the Chipmunks. 🎶🐿️ #MindBlown #PopCulture

When safe, effective vaccines exist, testing updated versions (e.g., annual flu/COVID shot) by giving some participants a placebo is withholding treatment and thus is unethical. Immunobridging is used instead to evaluate the updated version. 🛟😷 medsky

Why placebos don’t belong in vaccine trials

Volunteers in vaccine trials help drive medical breakthroughs, but they don’t always get the real shot. In early studies, some received a placebo, a harmless injection with no active ingredient,

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Chicago’s NBC 5 News featured University of Illinois Cancer Center member @shikhajainmd.bsky.social, a @uihealth.bsky.social medical oncologist, discussing approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of an at-home #cervicalcancer screening test. #CanSky Watch the video here: bit.ly/42X8NcN

News Features Jain

Chicago's NBC 5 News features University of Illinois Cancer Center Member Shikha Jain, MD, FACP, on at-home cervical cancer screening test.

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NBC: New At Home Test for Cervical Cancer Screening Chicago’s NBC 5 News recently featured Dr. Shikha Jain, a medical oncologist at UI Health and a member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center, in a segment highlighting a major advancement in women’s health. Dr. Jain discussed the U.S. Food…

NBC: New At Home Test for Cervical Cancer Screening

Chicago’s NBC 5 News recently featured Dr. Shikha Jain, a medical oncologist at UI Health and a member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center, in a segment highlighting a major advancement in women’s health. Dr. Jain discussed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first at-home cervical cancer screening test—a development that could significantly increase access to early detection and prevention.

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President Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis is a reminder that 1 in 8 men will face this disease. As an oncologist, I hope his story sparks awareness around early detection, PSA screening, and access to care. Thinking of him and his family. #ProstateCancer #MensHealth #Oncology

A New York Times video focused on the ramifications of prior authorizations and featuring University of Illinois Cancer Center member @shikhajainmd.bsky.social, a @uihealth.bsky.social medical oncologist, was nominated for a 2025 News Emmy Award. Watch the video here: bit.ly/4m4saYT

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Carolyn Barber, MD@cbarbermd.bsky.social · last yr.

Measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases with 3 deaths — mostly unvaccinated children. “How do civilizations backslide?” Experts warn: declining vaccination rates could bring back preventable tragedies. abcnews.go.com/Health/us-su... #BlueSky #MedSky #SciSky #IDSky #NurseSky

Asked who he is: “I am a sinner” www.americamagazine.org/pope-interview “Solidarity is a term that many wish to erase from the dictionary.” "I myself was born in a family of migrants..I could've wound up a discarded person.So i ask: Why them & not me? www.ted.com/talks/his_ho... RIPower Pontifex!

Why the only future worth building includes everyone

A single individual is enough for hope to exist, and that individual can be you, says His Holiness Pope Francis in this searing TED Talk delivered directly from Vatican City. In a hopeful message to p...

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My first post on BlueSky, I could not access the same handle as my X (someone hacked into that one): So it's @peterhotez for X and @peterhotezmdphd for BlueSky I'm a pediatric-vaccine scientist based in Houston TX at our Texas Medical Center

One of the best healthcare leadership conferences in the nation. Join us to transform your career, learn new skills, and engage with an amazing community of #WomenInMedicine and ally’s. The long event of its kind and you don’t want to miss it this year. #WIMStrongerTogether

Women in Medicine@womeninmedicine.bsky.social · last yr.

#WIMSummit2025 is back—bigger & better! 👩‍⚕️✨
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(The only deaths that I know of from the measles *vaccine*, are in places where it was mixed with the wrong diluent - not a fault of the vaccine at all. Feel free to correct me if you have good data to the contrary.) www.science.org/content/arti...

At least 15 children in Syria die in measles immunization campaign

Human error thought to be to blame for deaths in measles vaccination campaign

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& more 🤯🧪🛟🩺 (These statements are absolutely positively NOT TRUE) bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."

March is #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth. Cancer Center member and UI Health oncologist @shikhajainmd.bsky.social, who specializes in colorectal cancer, was on hand at a UIC Flames Men’s Basketball game to share info about colorectal cancer screening and prevention. bit.ly/3ERhpZ0

Flames: Colorectal Cancer Awareness

CECIL, the Cancer Center's giant inflatable colon, on display at UIC Flames women’s basketball for March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

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Colorectal Cancer Prevention: What You Need to Know Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable — and treatable — cancers, but only if it’s caught early. Alarmingly, rates of colorectal cancer are rising, especially in younger adults. As a physician and advocate for cancer prevention, I…

Cancer Center member and UI Health oncologist @shikhajainmd.bsky.social, who specializes in colorectal cancer, will be available to answer questions from game attendees, as well as discuss colorectal cancer prevention during the halftime interview streamed live on ESPN+. #CancerResearch #CanSky

Thankful for the opportunity to speak with @shikhajainmd.bsky.social about my patient advocacy journey. Listen here - www.healio.com/news/hematol...

Pioneering Changes in Patient Advocacy with Kimberly Richardson

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I had the great privilege of serving in the EIS Class of 2015, responding to dozens of disease outbreaks and novel health threats. The program is a crowned jewel of U.S. public health and a model for other countries. Cutting this program does not, in any way, make our country healthier.

Katelyn Jetelina@kkjetelina.bsky.social · last yr.

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Most Americans still have no idea about how F'd this country is about to get. I think if they knew it would be too overwhelming to process so they prefer maintaining the delusion, "It won't be that bad." It'll be very bad, folks. Hold on to your butts.

We need to shut ICE down until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

Here’s the start of our first starter pack! Go forth and follow and share - let’s build this resistance together! #Persist go.bsky.app/8BDn655

Dem leaders need to start holding national security press conferences explaining to Americans how Elon and Trump are dismantling agencies and seeking sensitive information on federal workers and all Americans. What Elon and co are doing will endanger everything from flying to attacks in U.S.

Not having access to accurate scientific data and resources is not a way to protect the people of our nation.

Laurence H. Tribe@tribelaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...