Trump Executive Orders, Texas Mazles Outbreak

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Are you all about reading potato chips? Well, after a lot of warm debate about flavors, yesterday at Stat we learned that chips were Originally sold without any taste. Until the mid -50s they just came with a small pack of salt that you could pour over them. Can you imagine a world where chips not Salt in advance? Sad.

A little more pleasant to chew: Stat Reporters won three Sabew Best in the business community Prices and four honorable mentions.

The newest lawsuit against Trump’s EOS quotes freedom of expression

Two Harvard doctors continue the Trump administration about the removal of two articles from the Patient Safety Network (PSNET), which is run by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of HHS. The researchers, who have written individual articles, claim that the removals are a violation of the first amendment. One paper about endometriosis noticed that trans and non -binary people could also suffer from the condition. The other, about suicide risk assessment, identified LGBTQ+ people as a risk group.

“The government has absolutely no company that dictates which facts are permitted or dictate which views on researchers and academics and doctors can express,” said Rachel Davidson, a staff lawyer at the ACLU Massachusetts. Read more about the lawsuit of Stat’s Anil Oza.

Mathematics is not mathematics in the Texas Mazles outbreak

The growing outbreak of measles – which started in West -Texas and so far has been distributed to New Mexico and Oklahoma – is the largest in the country in six years with more than 250 cases reported. One death is confirmed and officials investigate another in a non -vaccinated person who has tested posthumously positively.

Usually the fatal figure for measles is about one (but perhaps up to three) deaths for every 1000 cases. But with one, perhaps two dead, those simple statistics researchers have led to wonder whether the disease is more widespread than it seems at the moment. “These two individuals can just be incredibly bad luck,” said epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina. “It’s just surprising, especially considering how few we have had in the last 10 years.” Read more of Stat’s Andrew Joseph about other instructions that experts look at.

Falling overdose rates, the Trump Admin and RFK Jr.’s 12-step journey

The best addiction researcher of the federal government laughed when Lev Facher van Stat asked her how the recent policy changes of the Trump at the NIH have influenced her work. “They have raised my blood pressure and heart rate,” said Nora Volkow, while a spokesperson on the other side of the room referred him to HHS. Fortunately, Volkow was able to answer his other questions, in a Q&A that was published today.

A topic of conversation: health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is quite open about the fact that he recovers for a long time of alcohol and opioid addictions. Volkow spoke about whether or not there are benefits for having someone with that experience as the best health officer, and also about the views of the secretary about the use of 12 step programs to recover from opioid use disorder, in contrast to medicines such as methadone and buprenorphin. Read the conversation.

An investigation into brain and an explanation about driving

I want to highlight two interesting articles that published in Neurology yesterday, The Medical Journal of the American Academy of Neurology:

• Brain (brains): In one study Of the 187 lectures athletes, researchers discovered that those who received a concussion (25 of them) still showed signs of brain injury on MRI scans when they were acquitted to play their sport again, a few months later, and even a year after they were tidy. Persistent changes in pre-concussions scans were seen in the cerebral blood flow of the athletes and in the microstructure of the white fabric. But these effects were only in the brain – the athletes saw no clinical symptoms exist for so long, the authors noted. More long -term research is needed to understand if and how the brain is re -normalizing. The study also strengthens existing concerns about the damage that repeated concussion could cause, the authors adds.
• Driving (postal sheets): The American Academy of Neurology, American Epilepsy Society and Epilepsy Foundation of America have updated their joints statement (From 1994!) About models for driving licenses for people with epilepsy. The update contains some of the newer positions of 2007Perhaps the most striking that doctors call to be able – but not required – to report drivers who pose an increased risk, without legal liability for determining both ways. See the explanation for more details, but most basic position remains unchanged compared to the previous explanation: people with epilepsy must experience at least 3 months without attacks before they find out again.

Do we enter a postdoc crisis?

Successful science and research efforts require a certain level of stability and predictability. But recently a dizzying number of policy movements of the Trump administration have hit scientific and research communities, including the financing of freezing, disruptions of peer review, language bans and more. (ICYMI -Read the story of Jason Mast from Late Tuesday evening about how despair, confusion and panic were swept by the Columbia University campus while the Trump administration has its promise to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in the subsidies of the institution.)

In a new essay of the first opinion, the National Postdoctoral Association writes Executive Director and CEO Thomas P. Kimbis that the actions of the administration have had an “amazing” impact on Postdocs. These people – who graduated, but continue to guide temporarily, do essential work within the American academic world. NPA recently published the results of a survey that went to nearly 300 postdocs. Among the respondents, 43% reported that their jobs or positions were threatened, while more than a third said their investigation is delayed or in danger. Read more from Kimbis about how these academics have done with early career.

What we read

• The health of trans- and intersex Americans suffers. The Trump government can make it worse, The 19th

• Some CT scans provide too much radiation, researchers say. Regulators want to know more, KFF Health News

• CDC’s reported study on vaccines and autism would be the commitments of RFK Jr. can test for an important senator, Stat
• Who will be a therapist? The shooter
• TeleHealth platforms in the vessel of the senators about relationship with Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Stat