The Ontario Provincial Government’s ads during the World Cup are so offensive I might have to give up watching football.
A four point thread on the #Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak that is unfolding in the Congo, which @who.int declared a #PHEIC less than a week ago. www.who.int/news/item/17...
Epidemic of Ebola Disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda determined a public health emergency of international concern
Pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 12 - Determination of a public health emergency of international concern, including a pandemic emergency of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), the Di...
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"Defending against emerging diseases is literally a matter of life & death. Our government’s negligence endangers us" I do think RFK Jr & Bhattacharya killing mRNA vaccine R&D, & Bhattacharya killing federal funding for pandemic research & pushing for no preparedness at all, were unforgivable acts
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3mo agoI want to share the new OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about the dangerous lack of pandemic preparedness in the United States. It doesn’t matter how the outbreak begins. We are not ready, and the only things we can be sure of are death, taxes, and another pandemic.
My partner talks often of the horrific era when as a child, AIDS struck family and friends, claiming uncles, aunts, cousins, classmates. All should read this by @stephanienolen.bsky.social. We’re regressing decades into the past - needlessly, unconscionably. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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'We are managing HIV with a selective lenacapavir roll-out, not ending it...' Our latest in health-e on SA's drip feed LEN-LA roll out - with @africanalliance.bsky.social - @hji-sa.bsky.social LINK: 📲 health-e.org.za/2026/04/20/m...
We Are Managing HIV With Selective Lenacapavir Roll-out, Not Ending It
Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progres...
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In latest Medicine & Science @bmj.com Podcast-I join my co-author @mattherder.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social to discuss our recent Analysis (w. Andy Hill & @roojinhabibi.org) calling for WHO to declare USG a PHEIC also due to its 'unhinged nationalism'. 📲 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
The Trump administration is an international health emergency
Podcast Episode · Medicine and Science from The BMJ · April 17 · 51m
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Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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WHO first recommended use of a 3HP (3 months of weekly rifapentine and isoniazid) short course of treatment for TB infection in 2018 Health Canada approved rifapentine this year! No drug company cared to apply for registration until now... TB not "profitable" www.stoptbcanada.com/news/respons...
Health Canada Grants Access to Rifapentine: A Milestone for Tuberculosis Prevention in Canada — Stop TB Canada
OTTAWA, MARCH 23, 2026 – Stop TB Canada welcomes Health Canada’s decision to grant regulatory approval for rifapentine, a key medication used to prevent tuberculosis (TB). This decision marks an ...
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ICYMI - Our analysis published in @bmj.com makes the case for @who.int to declare that the actions of the US under President Trump amount to a 'PHEIC' under the International Health Regulations. CC @roojinhabibi.org @fatimahassan.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social
Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 4mo agoTitle: "The United States is Driving a Public Heath Emergency of International Concern" www.bmj.com/content/392/...
MUST READ: 'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern' @mattherder.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social A Hill and @roojinhabibi.org Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...
The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern
Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...
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Title: "The United States is Driving a Public Heath Emergency of International Concern" www.bmj.com/content/392/...
New analysis published in @bmj.com where @roojinhabibi.org Fatima Hassan, Andy Hill & I argue the US -- through its actions -- creating a 'public health emergency of international concern'. Multiple epidemics are expected, so we call upon @who.int to act decisively. www.bmj.com/content/392/...
So up in Canada's North, the government will spend: $35,000,000,000 to defend against theoretical military threat $ 27,000,000 to defend against real ongoing threat of TB Thinking of this comment on the #tuberculosis funding announcement:
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 5mo agoThis is a neat paper. "“Who the hell is upstream pushing them all in?” Reclaiming public health’s defining metaphor to counter the commercial determinants of health" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Interesting study underway @ #HESA. Sure hope the committee hears from a broad range of stakeholders, not only industry perspectives which appear to comprise almost the entire first meeting today.
Adam R Houston@healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 5mo agoCanada's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health #HESA will have its first meeting on the topic of "Canada's Pharmaceutical Sovereignty" on March 10. 🛃💊 www.ourcommons.ca/committees/e...
My Opinion in @thestar.com today: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... A thread to explain. CC @picardonhealth.bsky.social @kellygrant1.bsky.social
The Carney government is about to give up a vital bit of sovereignty. Worse, it could harm Canadians’ health
The lessons of the tainted blood scandal appear to be forgotten.
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"If high-level officials at the FDA are interested in the new use of a drug, they should lead with evidence, not with approval, and outline a process to ensure decisional integrity."
Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD@medlawdan.bsky.social · 8mo agoNEW: Paper in @jama.com (me, Glenn Cohen, & @drsinhaesq.bsky.social) discusses FDA plan to approve leucovorin for new indication based on "case reports" and "mechanistic data" 1. Departure from FDA's evidentiary standards 2. May harm patients and set bad precedent jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@sfu.ca is hiring Canada Impact+ Research Chairs. Research areas include health, including biotechnology; clean technology and resource value chains; environment, climate resilience and the Arctic; democratic and community resilience. Candidates must full Profs or Associate 2 years from promotion.
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Classic yet alarming: the federal govt just posted in the Canada Gazette a proposal to fundamentally change drug regulation as we know it. Here's the link to the Gazette: gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202...
Canada Gazette, Part 1, Volume 159, Number 51: Order Providing for Reliance on Decisions of, or Documents Produced by, Foreign Regulatory Authorities in Respect of Certain Drugs
December 20, 2025, Part 1, Volume 159, Number 51, Canada Gazette
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Important article by @timbousquet.bsky.social today in @halifaxexaminer.ca (as well as linked oped by Kate Ashley of Acadia + @aawayne.bsky.social) about very troubling move by NS govt decision to hire a private consulting firm to evaluate university performance.
Halifax Examiner@halifaxexaminer.ca · 8mo agoA firm with a reputation for recommending deep cuts and layoffs has been hired as a consultant to review Nova Scotia’s universities Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social
Thrilled to see this paper led by Ipek Erin Vural out in Social Science & Medicine In it, we reflect on how regulators both collaborate + compete with one another, mediating the tension between capital accumulation + public trust that sits behind regulation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Competitive Interdependence: A Critical Political Economy of Regulation during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
This article investigates Canada's health product regulatory authority, Health Canada (HC), and other major national regulators' responses to COVID-19…
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Still incredibly disappointing that Canada can look at the consequences of aid cuts by other countries earlier this year, and then not only put out a budget that slashes $2.7 billion from international assistance, but put that $2.7 billion in a column labelled "savings".
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 9mo agoOne 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
TODAY! "Making the State Do the Right Thing: a Decade of Jordan's Principle Litigation" w/ David Taylor 🕛 Time: 12:10 - 1:20 PM 📷 In-Person: Weldon Law Building, Room 104 dal.ca/faculty/law/ @schulichlaw.bsky.social
CUSMA vs the USMCA / A short thread. As many pundits have pointed out amidst trade tensions + tariffs between Canada and the US, it's important to keep an eye on the prize, i.e. the upcoming negotiations over the trade deal between Canada, the US, and Mexico. In Canada, we call it 'CUSMA'.
👀 Vive la France (if this passes)!! What an incredible precedent this would set.
Jaime Manzano@jaimemanzano.bsky.social · 9mo agoImportant development in France for those following #pharma #transparency. Socialist MPs have proposed an amendment to the 2026 Social Security Financing Bill that could redefine transparency in how medicines are financed and priced. /1🧵 www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amend...
Buried in an Annex to yesterday's federal budget was a very curious statement about the #PMPRB, Canada's drug pricing regulator. In order to cut costs by 15% (as almost all federal agencies have been mandated to do), the Board would 'modernise its hearings': budget.canada.ca/2025/report-... 1/4
Bad to much worse: www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/g... When NYT broke news of Tidmarsh's leave, it seemed maybe he was being retaliated against for criticizing commissioner's vouchers. Now it seems he may have used his FDA role for personal vendettas+possible extortion. The civil complaint is shocking.
Lawsuit against top FDA drug regulator is packed with incendiary texts, emails
A lawsuit filed against George Tidmarsh, who resigned from a top FDA post on Sunday, includes a series of incendiary texts and emails
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Adam R Houston@healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 9mo agoPer the book review @thelancet.com "The story he tells begins in the Hard Rock Hotel bar in Davos, Switzerland, in January, 2020, where discussions laid the foundation for COVAX".🌐💉 However one views COVAX, this origin story is a bit too typical of how & where key global health decisions are made...