Adam Gaffney
@awgaffney
Pulmonary & ICU doctor @challiance, assistant professor @HarvardMed, healthcare researcher @LabCambridge, past president @PNHP, author of "To Heal Humankind"
Fear will indeed deter people from going to the ER. The consequence is that some will die at home from heart attacks, blood clots, and other treatable conditions. People like this welcome such outcomes.
ICE Is Helping Alleviate Pressure On America’s Emergency Rooms thefederalist.com/2025/07/22/ice…
This list excludes In Our Time and, hence, is not to be taken seriously
Introducing TIME's list of the best podcasts of all time: 100 podcasts that shaped the genre and pushed it forward ti.me/451XhfW
In truth, the science hasn't changed at all on this — what's changed is the popular narrative (fed by "Lyme" memoirs of Ross Douthat & others), plus perhaps a weakening of doctors' nerve to take certain stances in public. With RFK Jr. in charge, such trends will only accelerate.
Of course children are dying of starvation. That’s what happens when you starve people. They die.
“Until then, starve away.” This brazen embrace of genocide must be fiercely fought — and never forgotten or forgiven.
Release the hostages. Until then, starve away. (This is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.)
Deaths will soar without action by the global community. Stop this deliberate policy of starvation! History will never forget !
Gaza hospital says 21 children dead from malnutrition in 72 hours as UN warns 'last lifelines collapsing' bbc.in/4f2fKOd
Both become the same identical monosaccharides in our gut — glucose and fructose. Is the general knowledge? In fact, basically everything we eat is broken down to a small selection of identical molecules in our abdomens.
Wow, a new yet equivalent way to deliver glucose and fructose to the small intestine
Coca-Cola said it will add a cane-sugar version of its trademark cola to its US lineup this fall, confirming a recent announcement by President Trump. trib.al/O7xPOSS
Even before the Trump administration’s “shock troops of pseudoscience” stripped the HHS of funding, “public health [had] long been the neglected stepchild of the US health system.” —@awgaffney, David U. Himmelstein, @swoolhandler go.nybooks.com/4ePn7bJ
WFP Statement | #Gaza On the morning of 20 July, a 25 truck WFP convoy carrying vital food assistance crossed the Zikim border point destined for starving communities in northern Gaza. Shortly after passing the final checkpoint beyond the Zikim crossing point into Gaza, the…
.@awgaffney: "For decades, the EPA's Office of Research and Development has produced the science that underlies the regulations and technologies that protect us from innumerable hazards." commondreams.org/news/epa-scien… #UnitedStates