Bryant Furlow
@bryantfurlow.bsky.social
I cover health care and public health policy for The Lancet news desks and others. Investigative reporter and ProPublica LRN alum. #ElderCare #NursingHomes #AssistedLiving Image: Michele Banks @Artologica
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández on Thursday introduced legislation that would reverse rate cuts for veterans’ home healthcare services and require congressional notification of any future reductions. sfnm.co/44B4nZ6
Heinrich, Leger Fernández introduce bill to reverse rate reductions for veterans' home healthcare
Between 2025 and 2026, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs slashed reimbursement rates for home health care in New Mexico by nearly 20%.
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Climate Change and Air Pollution Combo Is a ‘Double Whammy’ for Health www.nytimes.com/article/heat...
Canada Wildfire Air Pollution and Heat Wave Combo Pose Heightened Health Risks
Days that are both extremely hot and polluted come with higher risks of respiratory ailments and other health hazards.
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In Aug. 2025, we wrote “medical providers should prepare for new food-born outbreaks in a weakened food safety system…Americans as a whole can expect to live in a less healthy country, with less regulated food and medicine, reduced healthcare access and equity, and less resilient emergency response”
Trump's second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the US health system
The first hundred days of the second Trump administration was unprecedented, with the administration taking remarkably aggressive, often questionably legal actions across health policy. This article u...
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I’m reading There Is No Place for Us, by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social and one thing keeps hitting me over and over: Homelessness is rarely a single event. It’s a cascade. A cancer diagnosis. A lost job. Depression. A missed paycheck. A broken car. A wait for mental healthcare. An eviction. 🧵
🗞️ News - Trump Administration sparks furore and resignations over fruit-flavoured #vape authorisations 🔹 White House overrules objections from FDA commissioner, ordering the agency to authorise two fruit-flavoured #eCigarette products @bryantfurlow.bsky.social 🖇️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Trump Administration sparks furore and resignations over fruit-flavoured vape authorisations
On May 5, the White House overruled objections from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Marty Makary and ordered the agency to authorise sales of two fruit-flavoured e-cigarette product...
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Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...
Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration
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Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.
Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very...
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The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, ...
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Data gaps in the US govt’s SEER cancer registry disproportionately involve patients at rural and safety-net hospitals—potentially distorting prognosis, AI predictive modeling, and even clinical decision-making. Funding cuts could deepen those disparities. My latest: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Findings suggest under-reporting of patient data in US SEER
Gaps in patient data reported to the US National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database by some rural, safety-net, and community hospitals could skew cancer rat...
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The 2025 PIT count results are five months late. The results impact how states shape their homelessness policies, and how funding is allocated. “This is the latest any point-in-time count has ever come out, including when it was delayed during COVID,” said Jesse Rabinowitz. buff.ly/UV5rsDI
Where does California rank in homelessness? The federal report that could tell us has been delayed for months
The annual federal "point-in-time" homelessness count is used in California to determine funding and gauge progress in getting people off the streets.
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The Trump administration arrested this journalist. She says the censorship is ongoing. Federal charges tied to a church protest have left independent journalist Georgia Fort unable to interview key sources, a situation she says is stifling her reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The Trump administration arrested this journalist. She says the censorship is ongoing.
Federal charges tied to a church protest have left journalist Georgia Fort unable to interview key Minnesota sources, raising new alarms over press freedom.
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This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
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Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios has been released! She should never have been locked away by ICE. As an emergency and trauma doctor, she served patients in South Texas with dedication. I am grateful that she will be reunited with her 5 year-old daughter Milena and husband.
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US Senate Bill aims to boost cancer trial enrolment and equity
One in five cancer clinical trials in the USA fail due to insufficient patient enrolment, according to a report from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Recruitment challenges are pushi...
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Why we left the FDA: Six former officials share their stories www.statnews.com/2026/05/08/f...
Why we left the FDA: Six former officials share their stories
In this week's STATus Report, hear from six former FDA officials on why they left the agency.
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Heath Haussamen: Public excluded from New Mexico Public Records Task Force haussamen.com/2026/03/09/p...
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Native Students Receive Excessive Discipline in This New Mexico School District, Report Finds
The Navajo Nation report echoes a 2022 investigation by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica that found Indigenous students were punished more harshly than other students in the state’s Gallup-McKinley ...
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US EPA turning a blind eye to formaldehyde's cancer risks, critics contend
A coalition of 13 Democratic state attorney generals is urging the Trump administration to drop a “dangerous and scientifically unsupported” revision to a federal formaldehyde-inhalation risk assessme...
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US EPA to roll back restrictions on upwind pollution
Despite worsening ozone air pollution in much of the country, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends to weaken a key safeguard against cross-state emissions that fuel it. The announcemen...
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Climate change policy rollbacks ignore what the science is telling us loud and clear: climate change is driving a present and escalating public health emergency. Weakening climate protections increases health risks for current and future generations. 👉 buff.ly/RRH2v0d
🆕 Greater transparency for oncology clinical trials reporting Chief Editors of The Lancet’s specialty journals discuss enhanced scrutiny in the reporting of oncology clinical trials Read here: thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🔴Online now: Ultra-hypofractionated versus conventionally fractionated radiotherapy for localised #prostatecancer (HYPO-RT-PC): 10-year outcomes of an open-label, randomised, phase 3, non-inferiority trial thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year... A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...
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This week, the Trump administration repealed safe minimum staffing rules for nursing homes—and the CMS requirement that nursing homes have, well, a nurse (an RN on-site 24/7). My 2023 report on the nursing home staffing crisis in New Mexico: nmindepth.com/2023/everywh...
‘Everywhere you go is short staffed’: New Mexico nursing homes in crisis - New Mexico In Depth
New federal staffing standards meant to improve the care of millions of Americans in nursing homes could go into effect in as soon as two years. New Mexico’s nursing homes aren’t ready. Not even close...
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