Really interesting article by @propublica.org . Important to note the story here isn't about generics being less reliable -- they are life-saving -- but rather about the importance of efficient and robust medicines regulatory authorities.

@medslawpolicy.bsky.social 's annual (highly biased) 2025 year in review is here! Read what we thought were the most important goings on in global health law & policy here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/12/wrap...

➡️Millions rely on traditional care, yet it gets just 1% of research funding. 🆕The #TCIHCoalition’s new press release urges stronger #TCIM policy and investment. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2m3w6zkn #TraditionalMedicine #HealthForAll #UniversalHealthCoverage

Tomorrow @ellenthoen.bsky.social and several others will speak at the launch of a new Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance @knowledgegov.bsky.social. Event will be both online and in person. RSVP here: knowledgegov.org/event/centre...

“Transitioning to self-reliance sounds good but what is happening today is not a transition. It is a shock to the system of which the most vulnerable will carry the brunt”, says @ellenthoen.bsky.social in a new @thelancet.com here:

Inspiring young women. The new wave of young leadership in the US is one silver lining in all of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace! #Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊

Shameful move by Schumer (who should really leave) and 7 other Democrats that is going to drive millions off their healthcare. What is the point of having a Democrat party that just capitulates to every awful impulse of the Republicans? This is not what voters want.

It’s been a decade since the world met in Paris and embraced a historic agreement to stop the planet’s runaway warming.    Ten years on, nations are falling short of those goals.    Can things be turned around? Follow our coverage of the UN's climate summit:

One 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

"At the heart of the problem is a broken model": skyrocketing medicines prices used to reward shareholders, not drive new innovation, says a recent @thelancet.com editorial: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📢🔎💊 Regering, vergroot de transparantie in de farmaceutische sector. Dat is de boodschap van onze open brief die we vandaag hebben overhandigd aan het ministerie van VWS. Ondertekend door tal van organisaties en experts. Lees de brief en lijst van ondertekenaars 👉 www.wemos.org/open-brief-a...

BREAKING: South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring an end to Aids if enough people take it. . bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

Yayoi Kusama’s spotted pumpkins have been spreading far and wide for years, with no slowdown in sight. They function like instant landmarks, putting remote islands and small museums on the map.

Congrats to @justtreatment.org and Right to Breathe on getting the price of a lifesaving medicine to drop from $360,000 a year to $6,375 a year. This will give children with cystic fibrosis longer, healthier lives. @medslawpolicy.bsky.social 's take is here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/10/gene...

‘The health situation in #Gaza is a crisis for generations to come’ — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus#Gazain his latest interview with Anna Foster and BBC Radio 4's Today news programme

@hankgreen.bsky.social In case you haven't seen Rebecca Watson's excellent video on Avi Loeb's total obsession with aliens (every time a "Harvard prof" says it's aliens, it's the same guy): www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8E... (re this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYS...)

Picture worth 1000 words (none of them flattering)

World Risks Losing Future Medicines Unless We Fund Research into Traditional Knowledge and Medicines, Warns @tcih-coalition.bsky.social

“Traditional medicine – the people’s medicine – is used by billions. It’s time for a bold leap in research to match reality”, said Dr. Tabatha Parker, @tcih-coalition.bsky.social Board Member.

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💊💰🔎 What can the EU do to improve pharmaceutical transparency? Join our event with @hai-org.bsky.social at the European Parliament to discuss this critical issue. Co-hosted by MEPs Romana Jerković & @tillymetz.bsky.social. 📆 Date: 4 November, 13:00-15:00 CET ✍️ Register: forms.gle/1JhLqrNjeoe9...

... this is just so delightfully Portland. www.portlandmercury.com/photo-essay/...

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Interesting/concerning

In this era of hyper-partisanship, shockingly the FDA did…. a normal bureaucratic thing. Which is what it should do. FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.

Jane Goodall was one of my earliest childhood heroes and remained an inspiration all my life. I saw her speak at the UN 15 or so years ago -- one of the few speeches I've seen that moved me to tears. What an amazing woman.

What's the future of Traditional Knowledge, given resistance to the WIPO TK Treaty? Join Wend Wendland at American University & online on 25 Sept and hear more about the Centre on Knowledge Governance. Registration: t.ly/DnrRK @pijip.bsky.social @profseanflynn.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social

If you're at the WHO today, we have copies! But else you can get the digital version here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/04/phar...

Read ML&P's statement, delivered by @ellenthoen.bsky.social , at the opening session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Pandemic Agreement here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/09/the-...

Next week, at the @who.int the second meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) tasked with negotiating the PABS Instrument will take place. We just published this brief on the subject: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/09/who-...

@ellecordova.bsky.social being the voice of reason and wit we need right now. <3 www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

Treatment for cystic fibrosis added to Essential Medicines List by the World Health Organization: A victory for campaigners, though prices still ‘toxic’: Check out our new block on the Essential Medicines List: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/09/trea...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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The world is run by old men in a hurry https://on.ft.com/4oaeBbB | opinion

Before the 1970s, a child diagnosed with leukemia had a 90% chance of dying within 5 years. Today, those odds are flipped: they have an almost 90% chance of survival. My colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev's article on progress against childhood cancer. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

In a milestone decision, member starts at #WHA78 @who.int adopt the global traditional medicines strategy -- a new way forward for health systems. Read the @tcih-coalition.bsky.social statement here: www.tcih.org/article/who-...

🌿Traditional & complementary medicine is used worldwide. ➡️Time to integrate it safely & effectively into health systems. 🔬 Member States call for more evidence but rarely fund the research. That must change. At #WHA78 👉 Knowledge Ecology International: WHO TM Strategy offers the way forward.

Cuts to USAID are a "5 alarm fire raging out of control" said #HealthGAP 's Asia Russel yesterday. @altusaid.altgov.info. Streamed here: www.youtube.com/live/anbOfSI...

🔎💊💰 Out now: our joint report with @hai-org.bsky.social on the status of implementation of WHA resolution 72.8 on #transparency of pharmaceutical markets. What have countries done or not done & what are good practices they can learn from? ➡️ Read the report: www.wemos.org/transparency... #WHA78

"I see no objection -- the resolution is adopted" [applause in the room]. Congrats @who.int , the Pandemic Agreement has passed.

Starting now: The WHA plenary @who.int to discuss the Pandemic Agreement -- expected to adopt it shortly.

This is the kind of data that makes the case. 📊 AIDS deaths were rising—then dropped fast after 2005. ⬇️ PEPFAR launched in 2003. That’s not a coincidence. That’s impact. 🌍 We use this data to show what works in global health. It’s why PEPFAR still matters. ❤️

"Governments do not have a monopoly on ideas" noted Precious Matsoso, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body towards a Pandemic Agreement, acknowledging the importance of non-state actors and exerts. At a @fourpawsint.bsky.social side event this morning.

Address of Precious Matsoso, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response to Committee A on 19 May 2025. @who.int #WHA78

Excellent article in @forbes.com on The Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation's suit against AbbVie: www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...

New from @medslawpolicy.bsky.social , @ellenthoen.bsky.social - The People vs AbbVie: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/05/the-...