Jay Bhattacharya

🚨 MAJOR WIN in the fight against chronic disease 🚨 A simple, team-based care model significantly reduced high blood pressure in high-risk patients. ✔️ Health coaching ➡️ Simple solutions that work ✔️ Home BP monitoring ➡️ Lower costs for patients ✔️ Care coordination ➡️Real results in the communities that need it most 💡 Result: Big drops in blood pressure → fewer heart attacks, fewer strokes, and healthier American lives ➡️ Learn more: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/low-cost-care-model-reduces-blood-pressure-high-risk-populations

#DYK: Death rates among women stemming from heart disease are higher than those of men. A huge part of MAHA involves helping American women live healthier lives. Meeting that challenge in the days ahead will require a renewed focus on establishing a true gold standard for women’s health research. NIH is up to that challenge. 👩🔬

🍴Everyone knows the sensation of “eating” with our eyes and noses before food meets mouth. However, much less is known about the information superhighway, known as the vagus nerve, that sends signals in the opposite direction — from your gut straight to your brain. An NIH-funded study from Stanford University has identified a critical link between the bacteria that live in your gut and the cognitive decline that often occurs with aging. Read the full story: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html

At NIH, we’re accelerating the future of medical research, advancing innovation and repurposing existing drugs to deliver new treatments faster for the American people

Scientific journals like Lancet and Nature, which endorsed Joe Biden for president, are not trustworthy sources to comment on reforms in public health. They traded science for politics, and have not altered course since. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10202798/

The Lancet published the fake Surgisphere paper and embraced the Covid origins cover up. Sec. Kennedy is fixing the mess they helped make. Physician, heal thyself.

Is it just me, or are all the @WHO high officials and scientists who pushed the world into lockdown in 2020 now swearing up and down that they never recommended lockdown? I, for one, have no confidence that they would not recommend the world lock down again, given the chance.

Drink your whole milk 🥛 as we celebrate President Trump signing a landmark piece of legislation! Paired with the 2025 to 2030 Dietary Guidelines, this marks a major step forward for real food and the families we serve. Whole milk delivers essential vitamins and nutrients for strong health and growing kids. A huge win for all Americans

As we ring in 2026, I’m resolving to keep NIH’s focus on gold-standard research that will improve the health of the American public.

Starting in 1973, my mom ran an at home day care. Six kids, zero to 5 yrs old, 8 to 10 hrs a day, mostly by herself, for decades. Her kids still visit her. She never got a million dollar gov't grant for it. States that fund fraud in the name of compassion will get fraud alone.

It’s important that we pay attention to the evidence when it comes to medicalized treatment of gender dysphoria in young people. Based on a new report, @HHSgov experts agree that the harms outweigh any potential benefits. Watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/nC9UP5yi7HY?si=8rG0PwQ08bxXeDAR

Canadian professional organizations abused their power to vilify and suppress the speech of dissident scientists and doctors during the pandemic. Glad to see Alberta is moving to rectify the problem. https://globalnews.ca/news/11536277/alberta-regulated-professions-neutrality-act/

Obamacare was called the Affordable Care Act … but it did nothing for actually making care affordable. Care has gotten much less affordable since Obamacare was passed.

Did you know if you already had HPV its vaccine made you more likely to get cervical cancer? Before COVID, Gardasil was the worst vaccine unleashed upon America—so CDC covered up its issues to sell more shots. Here I reveal all the data they hid from us

“We were paying hospitals tens of thousands of dollars per Covid patient.” “So hospitals had very strong incentives to diagnose and find Covid even if the Covid was just incidental.”

At least two of the authors of this piece were in charge of the @CDCgov during the era when it embraced politicized school closures and covid vaccine mandates. For them to criticize Sec. Robert Kennedy Jr for his efforts to restore gold standard science to the CDC harms public health.

BHATTACHARYA: “It's very important for people to understand that … as far as public health goes for vaccines, the mRNA platform is no longer viable … And what you're seeing with Colbert … is frustration because they're no longer getting their way.”

This 4th of July, I’m reflecting on the freedoms that fuel scientific rigor and public health. From all of us at @NIH, wishing you a safe and healthy Independence Day!

I love @NIH and it's an honor to lead this agency. In case you missed it, watch my testimony on the 2026 FY budget where I share my vision to restore NIH to its status as the crown jewel of biomedical research. https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-review-of-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2026-budget-request-for-the-national-institutes-of-health

CDC drops COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy children, pregnant women.