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Clin Prof Emeritus at UT Austin, Col of Pharm, Div of PTherapy & Trans Sci, based in San Antonio. PharmD, BCPP, AAPP, clin care, CNS disorders & treatment, consultant for clin care & research, tech, space, equality, diversity, climate, & civility.
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This is a breakthrough in understanding and editing epigenetic markers. This could allow to people of the same biological sex to have real children of their own with a chromosome from each parent. Need a Y? Get it from a sibling or other male relative. #Medsky arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Texas Gov Abbott vetoed Lt Gov Patrick’s pet law intended to ban sales of low THC hemp products in Texas. Special Legislative Session is being called to provide rational regulation of the industry: no advertising or sale to minors & product testing. #Medsky www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

Vera C. Rubin Observatory releases stunning new images www.npr.org/2025/06/23/n...

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Senate Republicans are considering adding a provision to President Trump’s tax cut bill that would further cut Medicaid, alarming hospitals and potentially squeezing state budgets even further. www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/g...

In a Phase 3 pivotal trial of TRD, a single dose of psilocybin (COMP360) 25 mg had a mean MADRS difference vs placebo of -3.6 points, 95%CI [-5.7, -1.5]; p<0.001. Safety findings are similar to previous studies of COMP360 with no new safety findings. #Medsky ir.compasspathways.com/News--Events...

From love songs to lullabies, songs spanning the globe—despite their diversity—exhibit universal patterns, according to the first comprehensive scientific analysis of the similarities and differences of music across societies around the world. Learn more on #WorldMusicDay: scim.ag/4kiHXkZ

What you see when you look at this image depends on the culture you grew up in. The question is: Are you shocked to hear that some people see rectangles or circles? That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti...

61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. https://youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcODt-RW

Major US climate website climate.gov likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Health care has been a job market bright spot, but Trump's budget bill looms, possibly causing the loss of 500,000 jobs. #Medsky apple.news/AO0aWprbkS-G...

President Trump is the first U.S. president in 116 years that the NAACP hasn't invited to the annual convention. The group says Trump is attacking democracy and civil rights.

The FDS has approved lenacapavir (Yeztugo) for preventing of HIV infection for six months. #Medsky www.statnews.com/2025/06/18/f...

So the Senate Reconciliation Bill is basically privatizing the American West. www.wilderness.org/articles/med... wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

Moulton: I have heard that a lot of officers are considering resigning their commissions because they question whether this is constitutional—whether they’re violating their oath to protect and defend the Constitution, not the president, by carrying out these orders. These are active discussions

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Iberian blackout was due to grid management errors. It had nothing to do with renewable power. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

An international Delphi consensus for reporting of setting in psychedelic clinical trials. #Medsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More background on the judicial over-ruling of Trump’s cuts to NIH research grants on minority & LGBTQ+ projects. #Medsky arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Use of albuterol alone without a steroid is poor practice. #Medsky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

What the MAHA Report Gets Right, and Wrong, on Nutrition www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Selling off irreplacible public lands to balance the gigantic deficit created by trillions of tax cuts to the top 0.01%? www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

The 17 recently dismissed members of ACIP have written a letter do JAMA expressing their concerns about the abrupt dismissal and replacement 2 days later of 8 individuals. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In a non-randomized matched sample of 7K patients, semaglutide or duraglutide was observed to have lower risk than empagliflozin in patients with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for cardiac events or stroke. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... #Medsky

Featured story, from @kitoconnell.com: “This industry has really grown and is starting to achieve some maturity, and there’s so many good actors and quality products on the market that this [ban] is going to devastate them. This is going to devastate their livelihood.”

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I just had published a new article, available without a paywall on J Clin Psych. “Optimizing Treatment With Aripiprazole Monohydrate - Pharmacokinetic Advantages of Long-Acting Injectable Formulations, A Consensus Panel Report.” #Medsky doi.org/10.4088/JCP....

Supernus buys Sage for $561M. ir.supernus.com/news-release...

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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from distant galaxies have allowed determination that ~76% of the universe's normal baryonic matter is in the intergalactic medium, 15% in galactic haloes, and 9% within the galaxies, taking the form of stars and cold galactic gas. #astronomy www.space.com/astronomy/sc...

Parents sue over son's asthma death days after inhaler price soared without warning. PBMs just optimizing their profits and not healthcare. #Medsky www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

California Nat'l Guard troops in Los Angeles protecting ICE agents grabbing immigrants - are not getting paid The Pentagon dropped the ball on the paperwork that would get them paid & activate their benefits including @tricare.bsky.social & VA eligibility Reports @rawstory.com.web.brid.gy

Pancreatic cancer vaccines eliminate disease in preclinical studies | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series directed & produced by Ken Burns and colleagues recounts the US’s founding and its eight-year War for Independence. This is what the PBS & NPR budget changes are going to cut. www.pbs.org/about/about-...

"The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for."

UK Biobank data (≥86,000 non-shift workers) revealed that longer naps, more variability in daytime napping duration, and a higher proportion of naps occurring around noon and in the early afternoon are linked to an increased risk of all-cause mortality. #Medsky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

President Trump signs three resolutions barring California from mandating electric vehicle sales and setting tailpipe emissions standards designed to galvanize the transition away from combustion engines.

Democratic Senator forcibly removed from Kristi Noem's LA press conference apple.news/AHMwZ4MeiQ9C...

Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.

More performative BS from Pam Bondi. January 6th is NOT the LA protests. Don’t let her lies stand without pushback.

Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge For months, the research community has been racing to download and store thousands of demographic data sets the government wants to delete because they don’t align with the Trump administration’s... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kECuWs

Arizona Gov Hobbs vetos bill ostensibly prohibiting teaching antisemitism. The bill was opposed by Jewish groups as well. www.timesofisrael.com/arizona-gove...