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FDA granted "exemptions to more than 20 other factories that had violated critical standards in drugmaking... All told, the [FDA] allowed into the U.S. at least 150 medications...from factories with mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols." www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

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As @lizzylawrence.bsky.social's article notes, because FDA already has a number of expedited approval programs - including priority review, rolling review, and enhanced meeting schedules - it's not yet clear from the press release what the impact here will be. /1

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1138 comments

Kennedy denied being anti-vaccine to get appointed; but his actions are those who someone who wants to remove vaccines, explains @katherinejwu.com in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Yes. The old bill was a shot across the bow, but this is an outright assault on our courts. Under the old bill, courts could issue injunctions, with only a nominal amount for a bond (like $1). But this would bar judges from issuing injunctions—full stop—unless parties post potentially billions.

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Professors @jcontreras.bsky.social and @medlawdan.bsky.social and other health and IP law experts filed an amicus brief in the 23andMe bankruptcy case, arguing that data should be available to researchers for scientific advancement, medical discovery and public health.

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The Supreme Court's "interventions have been modest at best. The result has been an unstable equipoise in which the administration loses in court, but in ways that have not undone the real-world effects of its actions. [This] has ominous consequences ... for public health."

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In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

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The First Amendment today. Kettled in, not allowed to disperse, then arrested for failure to disperse. open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...

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This is a real thing being posted and circulated by the Department of Homeland Security, referring to undocumented immigrants as “foreign invaders” and urging good Americans to turn them in. (I’ll leave it to BlueSky historians to find comparisons to WWII era materials.)

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New in @jama.com: @pzettler.bsky.social et al. warn about politicization of COVID-19 vaccines at the FDA. "[I]nfusing political considerations and political appointees into individual product decisions imperils public health and innovation." jamanetwork-com.azp1.lib.harvard.edu/journals/jam...

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New from 404 Media: Delta, United, American etc don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS. The country's airlines sell bulk names and flight itineraries to DHS to be searched without a warrant. Contract tells DHS to not reveal where this data came from www.404media.co/airlines-don...

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JUST IN: California sues Trump admin, says Trump's order deploying National Guard is illegal/unconstitutional. AG says protests were 'under control' until Trump announced Guard deployment. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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I can't think of a worse way to build trust in vaccines than firing all 17 members of the federal vaccine advisory committee and calling the committee a "rubber stamp" and part of a "narrow pro-industry orthodoxy." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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Breaking News: More children were killed by guns in states that loosened laws after the Supreme Court limited the ability to restrict ownership, a study found.

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Four members of the ACIP, which advises the CDC on vaccination policy, have had their status as special government employees terminated www.statnews.com/2025/06/08/c...

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"It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a request from that state’s governor.... The last time was when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Alabama to protect civil rights demonstrators in 1965..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

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A good column on indications from RFK and his FDA "that a historic, highly risky decrease in agency oversight of cell and gene therapies is probably coming." www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/r... via @statnews.com

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DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

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🚨 CBS reports that Trump has signed a new travel ban, with its most harsh bans on entry targeting 12 countries, and lesser restrictions targeting 7 more. Unlike the first ban, this one is also targeted at Haiti, Cuba, and Venezuela. We’ll need to see text to know what the restrictions are.

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

For those interested in the serious problems with cancer care in the U.S., including how the law has enabled ineffective drugs, see my forthcoming article in Minnesota Law Review: The Crisis in U.S. Cancer Care: Law, Privatization, and Profit papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Thank you to Bob Langreth, Tanaz Meghjani, and Rachael Dottle for the rigorous reporting and for sharing my family's experience as part of this piece. Especially important as we hear about all of the "breakthroughs" at ASCO.

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I have a new paper in @journalgim.bsky.social describing the Supreme Court's new loophole to the 6-year time limit to sue federal agencies. All sorts of agency rules and FDA approvals from >6 years ago can now be challenged and invalidated. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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I grew up outside of Boston. After Louise Brown (the first "test-tube baby") was born, George Annas was quoted in an article in the Boston Globe. It sparked my interest in bioethics and set me on my path to law school and my current career. This is sad news.

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I have a new paper in @journalgim.bsky.social describing the Supreme Court's new loophole to the 6-year time limit to sue federal agencies. All sorts of agency rules and FDA approvals from >6 years ago can now be challenged and invalidated. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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"The study, published Monday in JAMA, found neotame in all 11 of the popular disposable vape brands it tested, including Elf Bar, Breeze, and Mr. Fog... All of these vapes are technically illegal in the U.S., but remain widely available at many gas stations and convenience stores as well as online."

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The Supreme Court majority's open consideration of policy gives away the game. Kavanaugh complains that NEPA is a "1970 legislative acorn [that] has grown over the years into a judicial oak that has hindered infrastructure development." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

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NEW: The Supreme Court declines to review the constitutionality of state laws that ban assault weapons. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would take up the case. Kavanaugh says the laws are likely unconstitutional but the issue needs to percolate further. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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If this post is referring to weight at birth, the percentiles are likely defined based on a reference population or for "ideal health," so more than half of babies can fall between the 25th and 75th percentiles. www.cdc.gov/growth-chart...

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"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

submitted 19 days ago • 56 comments

"* FDA leadership will convene a series of listening sessions with pharma and biotech CEOs over the next few months. * The meetings are closed to media..." says @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social Radical transparency, indeed. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

His complaint is that the journals publish studies that are funded by pharma companies, and I have a great idea for an alternative: what if the government funded work by researchers based at universities, who could then publish their findings?

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

New paper: "Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed" — with @hellmandeborah.bsky.social. Forthcoming in Harv L Rev Forum (ssrn.com/abstract=5271044) This is one of the first systematic analyses of the wave of Title VI claims over campus antisemitism. A quick summary 🧵:

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts the FDA's own publication from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

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*US ORDERS HALT TO STUDENT VISA INTERVIEWS: POLITICO

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"More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides have made well-timed trades since Trump took office in January, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war" www.propublica.org/article/us-o...

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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

submitted 24 days ago • 105 comments

The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times.

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Mitch Berman is the among the best on unconstitutional conditions: wapo.st/4jliBSO

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"Facing a shortfall of roughly $40 million in terminated contracts, the nation’s leading advisory body on issues of science and technology has already had to lay off 50 of its 1,000 employees and could lose as many as 250 more by the end of the summer"

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