Jennifer Bard
@profbardlaw.bsky.social
Law & Medical School Professor, AI, Public Health Law & Bioethics, YLS, #RedRaider, Clean Air Saves lives------------------------------ View my research page: https://ssrn.com/author=415770
So apparently there is an approved booster but scarce information about when it will be sent to pharmacies , www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...
COVID-19 Vaccines (2026-2027 Formula) for Use in the United States Beg
COVID-19 Vaccines (2026-2027 Formula) for Use in the United States Beginning in Fall 2026
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 A side benefit of going to PetSmart every week for school is we get to check out the ever increasing Halloween displays, I don’t think I am going to dress him as a lobster but you never know (he also is continuing to learn a lot, as am I)
Here’s follow up piece in Health Affairs on the Chiles v Salazar decision regarding conversion therapy laws, warning it’s not good news &  although I have some strategies in a law review article I am about to submit, the real issue is supreme court reform www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
Health Affairs Journal
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"Some air quality scientists say the study had numerous flaws." LOL, some. Only the ones that read it.
Picked up Ollie from daycare and they very kindly gave me this picture of Rosie & baby Ollie that they had been using for identification and that they were replacing with just grown-up Ollie, I forgot they used to be the same color he has gotten so light #uglydogs
This may be only novel for me, I’ve never had a cat and dog get along like this
Didn’t realize he had taken his new ball on the walk until after we left-it’s very engaging & makes noises like Charlie Brown’s teacher
The Trump administration wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have over their retirement. “What they have done is lower the standard for everything,” said one former senior official at the Department of Labor.
Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...
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This is not ok, we could change our system of providing access to health care
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w agoOne doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. (Published Dec. 2024)
This article takes a surprising turn, but I’ll never forget a student telling me that exactly this happened with her mother hours before her death, a warm, lucid conversation after years of dementia Why Do Some Dementia Patients ‘Return’ Just Before They Die? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/m...
Why Do Some Dementia Patients ‘Return’ Just Before They Die? (Gift Article)
As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.
nytimes.com
I don’t know if the story of these five adults who all drowned in a reservoir near Columbus, Ohio leaving two small children orphaned has made national news, but unfortunately it’s a pretty common phenomenon that the rescuers also drown- youtu.be/TY2f8I-YWl0?...
Sheriff: Attempt to save struggling swimmer in Scioto River leaves 5 dead
YouTube video by WBNS 10TV
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Speaking as a former Medicaid fraud civil prosecutor, Medicaid fraud is reprehensible behavior by people who provide services-but using fraud as an excuse to cut services is not the path forward
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago“The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was withholding an additional $1 billion in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota, the second time it has targeted the two states with Democratic governors for suspected fraud in their public health insurance programs.”
Last year I had a cherry tomato plant in a container by my front door but it got so large and unruly that I decided not to put one there this year, nature, however, had other plans
Agree-but see some value in being able to promise someone a lifetime appointment in return for leaving a legal career. I like the idea of rotating circuit court judges in and out of the Supreme Court for time limited terms
Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 2w agoCongress has the authority to enact Supreme Court term limits. Constitutional scholars and retired judges agree the leading proposals are consistent with the Constitution and judicial independence. bit.ly/44wR1wY
One advantage of five inches of rain in an hour is an explosion of garden growth
Remember that red, purple, and orange were all removed from the Covid maps in favor of shades of blue and green to make the picture look less alarming
NPR@npr.org · 3w agoEveryone knows that red means danger, but how did purple become a cautionary color? At an EPA conference in the late 1990s, attendees nearly came to blows over color coding on the Air Quality Index.
Agree! The career and market pressure on investigators & institutions is already so great as to be close to unbearable, how could this be in anyone’s interest (other than the betting company)
Alan Regenberg@aregenberg.bsky.social · 3w agoToday in terrible ideas: Kalshi Is Set to Start Taking Bets on Drug Trials. The landscape for potential market manipulation keeps expanding. gizmodo.com/kalshi-is-se...
Who knew that the couch and a pair of curtains would become Ollie’s Lair
Slew of lawsuits over disability access frustrates US cafe and shop owners www.theguardian.com/business/202... #a11y
Slew of lawsuits over disability access frustrates US cafe and shop owners
Business owners say they’re being unfairly targeted – but disability advocates say violations must be dealt with
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I’d like to know under what definition of “puzzle” this fits because Ollie had the food out of it almost faster than I had put it in. With the hot weather I thought it would be nice for him to have something to do inside, but clearly this is not it
If there is any field of study in which “everything old becomes new again” it is the ethics of organ donation-a so far intractable problem for 🇺🇸where supply can never meet demand & distrust prevents adoption of presumed consent
Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 4w agoKilling two birds with one stone? Sorry. www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...
