Paul Bleicher
@pbleic.bsky.social
MD/PhD, Academia => Biotech => Pharma/HealthIT => PE/VC. Immunology, medicine,dermatology, clinical trials, EDC, RWE, AI
The pull of Silicon Valley for startups has been a major issue for Massachusetts in tech for decades. Now, it is becoming a problem in biotech, which had been seemingly more secure for the region. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/05/b...
He grew up outside Boston, went to Harvard, and worked at MIT. Why did he found his company in California? - The Boston Globe
The tech and innovation rivalry between Boston and San Francisco has a decades-long history.
bostonglobe.com
An explanatory infographic on amino acids, proteins, and peptides and the 7 compounds before the committee yesterday and today. Consideration is whether these should be on the "allowed" list for manufacture by compounding pharmacies for individual prescriptions.
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
nytimes.com
A frequent target of GOP leaders as a bastion of progressivism, Martha’s Vineyard is awash in flags and flag bunting in preparation for the old school 4th of July parade. Like every year before it. Patriotism is not owned by one party or political stance.
I have been arguing this point very publicly in the past on the “bird” site, and in public forums, for > 10 yrs. Whole body CT/MRI may save lives anecdotally, but for populations there is no evidence that their substantial risks and cost outweigh their benefits. medcitynews.com/2026/06/whol...
Researchers Say Whole-Body MRI Companies Are Inflating the Scans' Medical Benefits - MedCity News
A recent JAMA editorial from two radiologists argues that elective whole-body MRI scan companies are misleading consumers about the benefits of said scans. The radiologists argue the MRIs are more lik...
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And… “In 2025, the Trump administration eliminated funding for a pilot project aimed at studying the Andes hantavirus variant confirmed to be on the MV Hondius. The project was designed to better understand how hantavirus passes from rodents to human and was shuttered last year by the NIH”- Sci.Am
And the boat sailed from Argentina, which left WHO along with the US for political reasons.
SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨 JUST IN: Possible human-to-human spread of hantavirus detected on a cruise ship, warns World Health Organization Maria Van Kerkhove, head of epidemic and pandemic preparedness at World Health Organization, said there may be some human-to-human transmission occurring among very close contacts.
Really? “Personalized” Population Health? Isn’t this the definition of an oxymoron?
OMG, this Silicon Valley clio is so prescient of today’s world. How did they know???
Ryan Parrish@ryanparrish.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt’s about safety. It’s about increasing everyone’s costs without proof of efficacy. It’s about drug interactions. It’s about false hope. It’s wrong.
One step closer to a silicon-based life form. @prasad.bsky.social this is up your alley. scitechdaily.com/after-decade...
After Decades of Global Searching, Scientists Finally Create the Silicon Aromatic Once Thought Impossible
A long-standing chemistry challenge has been solved with the synthesis of a five-atom silicon aromatic ring.
scitechdaily.com
You can start worrying about other things now. The asteroid probability of collision with Earth is now essentially zero. It does have about a 1% chance of colliding with the moon though.
DEVELOPING: An American Airlines regional jet has crashed into the Potomac River after colliding with a helicopter, a source familiar with the situation tells NBC News, causing the closure of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Live updates: Plane crashes into Potomac River after collision with helicopter near Reagan National Airport
The latest news and live updates on the plane crash into the Potomac River.
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For more than 450 days, we have been waiting for the 98 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza to be released.🎗️
It’s been good while it lasted. Waving goodbye to the Y chromosome. In 4.5M yrs, humans may be extinct or broken up into distinct non-interbreeding populations. theconversation.com/sex-genes-th...
Sex, genes, the Y chromosome and the future of men
The Y chromosome, that little chain of genes that determines the sex of humans, is not as tough as you might think. In fact, if we look at the Y chromosome over the course of our evolution we’ve seen ...
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Years ago, I was hit by this. Sent my daughter to urgent care at CVS for a strep test. CVS was closed when she got there, so she went to an urgent care in a local hospital that charged $800(!). Facility charges for outpatient visits are a big problem. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/07/b...
He thought his physical therapy would cost $25 per session. Then came the bill for $4,515. - The Boston Globe
It turns out the facility where a Newton college student was treated for an ankle injury is an outpatient department of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, which charges "hospital visit" rates.
bostonglobe.com
You know Handel’s Messiah. Now listen to Handel’s version of the Chanukah story circa 1746 youtu.be/3blzcHAVkz4?...
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) - Judas Maccabaeus
YouTube video by German Baroque Music & More
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Not only Jewish nationalist and Zionist, but a clear history in the Catholic Bible and other historical sources (not the Hebrew Bible) of an independent sovereign Jewish state more than 100 yrs before the Common Era. Not an early Bible story; one documented in Roman and Greek sources and with coins.
Steven Goldstein@stevengoldstein.bsky.social · 2y agoAnd I could not be prouder to celebrate! #PassionateZionist
Wot??? “Christmas and Hanukkah seldom overlap. Though the holidays technically begin on the same date every year…” wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com?publink=4a93...
When Christmas Meets Hanukkah, It’s a Blessing and a Fire Hazard
Overlapping holidays, or ‘Chrismukkah,’ poses challenges for mix
wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com
Biden commutes the death penalty sentence for 37 of 40 inmates. Here are the other 3.
Wow. Published Oct. 2019, the publisher of Psychology of Pandemics wondered whether anyone would be interested. The book said that “pandemics bring out...extremes in behavior, anxiety, fear, denial, racism, conspiracy theories, the popularity of quack cure(s)..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
‘No one wanted to read’ his book on pandemic psychology – then Covid hit
Australian psychologist Steven Taylor published what would turn out to be a prophetic book, and it has become like a Lonely Planet guide to the pandemic
theguardian.com
Flat earthers were the canary in the coal mine. We should have seen it coming.
Liz Highleyman@lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2y agoFrom Kohelet (aka Ecclesiastes): What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. A sampling of anti-vax cartoons. (1) bsky.app/profile/matt...
Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Misinformation Cliff. From "Health in Pictures," the American Public Health Association, 1930
A massive understatement to say that there are "lessons not learned" about pandemic. We are in FULL revisionist history mode. 👇 Truths about COVID, the benefits of vaccines, and the success of public health measures are being erased and replaced with lies that are accepted as truism. Horrifying.
Justice Ginsburg, dissenting: “[Doing the dumb thing] is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”
I cannot understand how anyone, knowing the history of medicine in the 20th century, could possibly consider revoking the approval of the polio vaccine. If we do, we are likely to experience outbreaks of a heartbreaking childhood illness with lifetime implications. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
nytimes.com
