New BMJ Editorial out today from @rocher.lc and me: www.bmj.com/content/393/... - Biobank's response to the news that researchers have accidentally uploaded data to GitHub multiple times is insufficient & risks trust in the UK's health data ecosystem. Everyone needs to feel responsible for privacy.

New study in @jamanetworkopen.com this week: frequency of post-market safety issues for cancer drugs with accelerated approval. Happy to collaborate on this study with Dr. Mooghali, @reshmagar.bsky.social @jsross119.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Postmarket Safety Actions for Novel Oncology Drugs Granted Accelerated Approval

This cross-sectional study examines postmarket safety actions for novel oncology drugs that received accelerated Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

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Well worth the read ... subsidy cuts will be felt hardest in states that did not expand Medicaid as part of the ACA

Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · 8mo ago

GOP cuts to Medicaid and the ACA will hit millions of low-income workers, including many in key swing districts. This could be the midterms’ defining economic fight

New paper from @yalecrrit.bsky.social out today in @jamainternalmed.com - The 2007 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act (FDAAA) expanded the agency's safety-related regulatory authorities, including enhanced postmarketing safety surveillance and new clinical study requirements (1/5)

Here's our new article reporting findings from stakeholder interviews in which we hoped to learn what it takes to successfully complete rigorous confirmatory studies after accelerated approval. Instead, we mostly heard willingness to trade rigor for feasibility. 1/ academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Flexibility Over Rigor: Stakeholder Acceptance of the Limitations of Confirmatory Studies Following Accelerated Approval

Despite the importance of postmarketing requirements (PMRs) following accelerated approval and well-recognized shortcomings in their rigor and timeliness,

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Most early attention on the H-1B EO imposing a $100k fee is focused on the tech industry (i.e., good story by @joshwingrovebbg.bsky.social and Spencer Soper) www.bloomberg.com/news/article.... However, this policy will have a huge impact on healthcare delivery systems and research enterprise (1/2)

Trump Shapes Gilded Age of US Immigration With $100,000 H-1B Fee

President Donald Trump took his most extensive step yet toward overhauling the US legal migration system, with a pair of proclamations that explicitly favor the wealthiest of the world’s prospective e...

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"Climate change is no longer a problem for our grandchildren but is inflicting profound economic and health damage right now.” @markgongloff.bsky.social

Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Climate change is an economic emergency, part 1000: More than $1 trillion in US wages has been lost to wildfire smoke alone in the past 5 years. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Kudos to @fda.gov leadership for following through on their efforts to promote transparency by posting CRLs for 2024 pending or withdrawn product applications. There is a lot that scientists, industry and clinicians can learn when FDA does not approve a product www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fda-...

FDA moves to publish drug rejection letters in real time, releases new batch including Replimune's high-profile snub

The FDA today announced a plan to p | The Food and Drug Administration today announced a plan to publicly release complete response letters at the same time they are issued to sponsoring companies, pa...

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Great reporting on RFK "going wild" by sabotaging the @altcdc.altgov.info @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

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Florida Made a Vaccine Mistake. Now, It’s Everyone’s Problem. Agree with @lisamjarvis.bsky.social, viruses don’t give a damn for state lines www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Florida Made a Vaccine Mistake. Now, It’s Everyone’s Problem.

State efforts to protect access to shots are welcome, but they can’t compensate for others’ anti-science policies and a dysfunctional CDC.

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Great story by @annaedney.bsky.social ... reminds me of what happened with Essure, as patients complaints went unheeded for years

Anna Edney@annaedney.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In my @bloomberg.com Big Take out today I explored how Hologic pushed a medical device on breast cancer patients despite hundreds of complaints, most of which stayed buried until now

"The American scientific enterprise is being unravelled before our eyes—research grants are being cut off, satellites disconnected, reports cooked up [by] particular industries and ideologies ... but in the end, the truth will [win] out." @billmckibben.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced

International climate experts have extensively debunked the D.O.E.’s recent report, but will science win out?

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“Physicians receiving payments were more likely to prescribe the company's drugs, with a stronger association for payments that were larger, sustained and recent.” New work on bribes to Rx multiple sclerosis drugs by Sayed, @reshmagar.bsky.social @jsross119.bsky.social

Industry payments to US neurologists related to multiple sclerosis drugs and prescribing (2015-2019): a retrospective cohort study - PubMed

Nearly 80% of neurologists prescribing MS drugs received at least one industry payment, with higher volume prescribers being more likely to receive payments. Physicians receiving payments were more li...

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"In a world accustomed to receiving real-time information, the process of publishing medical research remains trapped in a system designed for a slower era,” per @jsross119.bsky.social & colleagues from @utoronto.ca Med in @annalsofim.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... #peerreview

On a Slow Boat to Publication: Rethinking How We Disseminate Medical Research | Annals of Internal Medicine

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Amazing data visualization illustrating how Grier family manipulated science to ‘prove’ vaccines cause autism. Key take-home: "those who claim to champion people with autism are denying them real research while undermining one of public health’s greatest achievements" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism

Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.

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The EPA's disastrous plan to end the regulation of greenhouse gases & just let climate change run rampant. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... via @elizkolbert.bsky.social

The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.

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1. On February 24, Extremity Care LLC, a company that sells very expensive bandages made from placentas, donated $5 MILLION TO TRUMP'S SUPER PAC Days later, Trump froze a pending rule that would BAR MEDICARE FROM COVERING EXTREMITY CARE'S PRODUCTS, which are overpriced & not backed by science.

Days after $5 million donation to MAGA Inc., Trump freezes Medicare waste crackdown

Trump pledged to root out "waste, fraud and abuse." Then a big contribution to his Super PAC came in.

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"The esteemed climate scientist Michael Mann said the report was akin to the result he would expect “if you took a chatbot and you trained it on the top 10 fossil fuel industry-funded climate denier websites”." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

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I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research

Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

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"If the US is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. America’s technology sector might lose its creativity. But science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state."

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last yr.

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

A singular achievement in reporting and storytelling: The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison, by @propublica.org and partners.

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison

On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

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High brand-name drug prices fall once a generic enters the market. In a new @journalgim.bsky.social article, Ravi Gupta, CRRIT Co-Director @jsross119.bsky.social, and colleagues from @portalresearch.org assess associations between patents, revenue, and generic competition.

You cannot make this stuff up! @muskwatch.bsky.social reports that Musk's $9b neurotechnology company self-certified as a "small disadvantaged business", despite his >$400b net worth, and federal regs precluding designation to individuals with a net worth >$850k www.muskwatch.com/p/musks-neur...

Musk’s Neuralink falsified federal forms, claims to qualify for racial diversity program

The company, owned by the world's wealthiest man, says it is a "small disadvantaged business"

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988 contacts continue to grow; however, significant legislative changes to Medicaid are expected to result in less coverage and funding with implications for access to broader mental health services. www.kff.org/policy-watch...

Demand for 988 Continues to Grow at Third Anniversary | KFF

This policy watch examines 988 on its third anniversary, drawing from the latest Lifeline data available through May 2025 and suicide death data from CDC WONDER for the period 2013 to 2023. 988 receiv...

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Here is the full letter Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, sent to colleagues: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

An incredibly sobering must-read piece by @peopledoctor.bsky.social in @newyorker.com on how the OBBA will impact children, especially those who get seriously ill, through Medicaid cuts, diminishing one of America's most important anti-poverty programs www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Sick Children Will Be Among the Victims of Trump’s Big Bill

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.

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“Trump’s law doesn’t protect Medicaid. It requires Americans to spend hundreds of millions of hours a year filling out tedious, unnecessary paperwork. It will cause millions to lose their health coverage, limiting access to care and forcing them into debt.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Annoying People to Death

Why the Medicaid work requirement is a terrible idea

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Even @wsj.com is reporting (accurately) that millions of Americans will lose Medicaid coverage not because of lack of eligibility, but because of cumbersome paperwork, bureaucratic hurdles and noncompliance www.wsj.com/health/healt...

What Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for Enrollees

Policy analysts expect millions of Americans to lose coverage because of cumbersome paper work, bureaucratic hurdles and noncompliance

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Making Measles Great Again, or why should not be surprised that promoting vaccine misinformation, undermining vaccine science, and defunding our public health infrastructure has resulted in the largest number of measles cases in more than 30 years @juddlegum.bsky.social popular.info/p/making-mea...

Making Measles Great Again

Before the measles vaccine became widely available in the 1960s, nearly everyone in the United States contracted measles by the timethey were 15.

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