New on Medicines Law & Policy: Chile’s Technology and Knowledge Transfer Bill passes Congress with important commitments on socially responsible licensing, transparency

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EXCLUSIVE: World Health Assembly To Suspend USA's Voting Rights, Retains Iran's - Health Policy Watch

GENEVA – The World Health Assembly Committee B resolved to penalise the United States for outstanding dues, while restoring Iranian voting rights on Thursday. Officials announced the sudden payment of...

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Out now: Our Medicine, Our Rights: Indigenous Healing Belongs in Global Health. www.tcih.org/article/our-... #WHA79 #WHA @tcih-coalition.bsky.social #IndigenousHealth

Our Medicine, Our Rights: Indigenous Healing Belongs in Global Health

The TCIH Coalition publishes a formal Position Paper on Indigenous Traditional Medicine and Healing Practices. The paper calls for a rights-based approach that centres Indigenous leadership...

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www.emergence.ai/blog/emergen... This is the wildest AI experiment I've ever seen: stuck in a virtual world, AI agents from diff models were tasked with building a functional society and given 2 weeks to see what they would do. (1/3)

EMERGENCE WORLD: A Laboratory for Evaluating Long-horizon Agent Autonomy  — Emergence AI

Most evaluations of AI agents look like exams: a discrete task, a clean environment, a score in minutes or hours. Emergence World is built for the opposite question—what happens when you let agents ru...

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Fun read: A WHO Worth Fighting For? andrewharmer.org/2026/05/05/a.... Hat tip to @thirugeneva.bsky.social for the find.

It’s no exaggeration to say this was among the worst weeks for voting rights in our history. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This week at Democracy Docket: A catastrophic court ruling sets off a scramble to destroy Black political power

It’s no exaggeration to say this was among the worst weeks for voting rights in our history.

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youraislopbores.me this is delightful :) chat to a real human (instead of an AI) or LARP as the AI and answer people's questions.

your ai slop bores me

A real-time multiplayer game where humans role-play as AI. Submit prompts, give responses, and earn credits.

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Happening in 2 hours! 2:30PM CET. A briefing on the WHO negotiations on access and benefit sharing to prevent future pandemics. Register to join here (also online): tinyurl.com/brktwymv

🆕 With the Ministry of Health|Kenya, we have issued a joint statement on the outcomes of the East African Forum on #TCIM. ➡️ East African Network on TCIM is one key outcome, connecting policymakers, regulators, researchers & practitioners across East Africa. ℹ️:🔗 shorturl.at/Yeu96 #TraditionalMedicine

East African countries join forces to advance Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM)

A joint statement issued by the TCIH Coalition and Kenya’s Ministry of Health highlights the key outcomes of the first East African Forum on TCIM (24-25 February 2026, Nairobi | Kenya)...

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Excellent work from @lastweektonight.com on the disastrous impact of shuttering USAID. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8S.... Important shoutout to the excellent work by epidemiologist Brooke Nichols who has been tracking the death-toll quoted in the show: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard

USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Putting on Technology Connections, hoping to brush up on the latest in renewable energy, and after an hour of precisely that: a clarion call to wake up and realise precisely the state of emergency we're in right now. Bravo, Alec. Well worth an hour of your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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Legal tools that lower medicines prices have expanded access to medicines for over two decades, new ML&P research in @bmj.com reveals. Read about study, the most comprehensive review to-date of use of @wto.org IP rules, here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2026/01/lega...

"Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu." Beautiful work @adamserwer.bsky.social @theathletic.com

An empty flagpole stands at WHO today where the US flat once flew, reports @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social. In a disappointingly typical more for the current administration, they are going out with a temper tantrum and a refusal to pay the org the $260.6 million they owe in dues for 2024/2025.

We're one year in. The speed, scope and severity of what's happening to American science is beyond anything we've seen before. The reliability of the Federal science and technology enterprise and the people within it, has been shattered. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers

Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

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"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Everyone is scared." (Anne Frank)

Really interesting article by @propublica.org . Important to note the story here isn't about generics being less reliable -- they are life-saving -- but rather about the importance of efficient and robust medicines regulatory authorities.

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NEW: After a lung transplant, Hannah Goetz’s life depended on the generic version of tacrolimus, a critical drug to prevent organ rejection. It was supposed to be equivalent to the brand-name medication — but the FDA doesn’t always ensure that’s the case.

@medslawpolicy.bsky.social 's annual (highly biased) 2025 year in review is here! Read what we thought were the most important goings on in global health law & policy here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/12/wrap...

➡️Millions rely on traditional care, yet it gets just 1% of research funding. 🆕The #TCIHCoalition’s new press release urges stronger #TCIM policy and investment. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2m3w6zkn #TraditionalMedicine #HealthForAll #UniversalHealthCoverage

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A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language

In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity.

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Tomorrow @ellenthoen.bsky.social and several others will speak at the launch of a new Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance @knowledgegov.bsky.social. Event will be both online and in person. RSVP here: knowledgegov.org/event/centre...

“Transitioning to self-reliance sounds good but what is happening today is not a transition. It is a shock to the system of which the most vulnerable will carry the brunt”, says @ellenthoen.bsky.social in a new @thelancet.com here:

Global health aid cuts: WHO urges urgent action to protect vulnerable populations

With drastic reductions in health aid threatening essential services and millions of lives, WHO issues new guidance for countries to safeguard health budgets, limit out-of-pocket payments, and mobilis...

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Inspiring young women. The new wave of young leadership in the US is one silver lining in all of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial

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That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace! #Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 10mo ago

Epstein survivors just demanded the release of the files in this new PSA. Watch it here.

Shameful move by Schumer (who should really leave) and 7 other Democrats that is going to drive millions off their healthcare. What is the point of having a Democrat party that just capitulates to every awful impulse of the Republicans? This is not what voters want.

Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.gov · 10mo ago

Tonight was a very bad night.

It’s been a decade since the world met in Paris and embraced a historic agreement to stop the planet’s runaway warming.    Ten years on, nations are falling short of those goals.    Can things be turned around? Follow our coverage of the UN's climate summit:

COP30: UN climate summit — latest updates

News, highlights and analysis from the 2025 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil

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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

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"At the heart of the problem is a broken model": skyrocketing medicines prices used to reward shareholders, not drive new innovation, says a recent @thelancet.com editorial: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Drug pricing and pharmaceutical innovation: a false promise

The UK is facing a pharma exodus. Major pharmaceutical companies have withdrawn about £2 billion in proposed investment from the country, blaming insufficient government investment. Central to the dis...

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📢🔎💊 Regering, vergroot de transparantie in de farmaceutische sector. Dat is de boodschap van onze open brief die we vandaag hebben overhandigd aan het ministerie van VWS. Ondertekend door tal van organisaties en experts. Lees de brief en lijst van ondertekenaars 👉 www.wemos.org/open-brief-a...