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I just realized I accidentally linked the accompanying editorial instead of the paper itself. Correct link below! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Extensive subsidies that reduce premium costs for millions are set to expire, unless Congress extends them. Via @reedabelson.bsky.social and @sangerkatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

A new paper led by Harvard Health Policy PhD student Ye Shen finds that, in the current policy environment, more than six in ten kids will have been enrolled in Medicaid for some period of time by their 18th birthday; the program is absolutley critical for children. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the HIV epidemic. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Sigh, ACIP members asking questions during the meeting that reveal they aren’t aware of the most basic aspects of the Vaccines for Children program, one of the most important implications of their recommendations and votes. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Thought to affect 200 million people globally, schistosomiasis is considered one of the most important parasitic infections worldwide, second only to malaria. Yet it attracts nowhere near the funding or the attention that killers like malaria do. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/h...

The Pitt has plans to tackle stories next season related to federal health care cuts. I've got some ideas in a new column out in @jama.com. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

The conclusion reached by Judge Burroughs:

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The U.S. spends far more on prescription drugs than other countries — and one reason is that brand-name manufacturers use several strategies to extend market exclusivity beyond key patents and delay generic entry, including obtaining overlapping thickets of patents.

The U.S. spends far more on prescription drugs than other countries — and one reason is that brand-name manufacturers use several strategies to extend market exclusivity beyond key patents and delay generic entry, including obtaining overlapping thickets of patents.

The whiplash is dizzying. “Just a few hours before the Supreme Court decision, I got an e-mail that I was able to resume spending,” one researcher tells @dangaristo.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social. Now, the grant is likely to be cut again. “It’s heartbreaking.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A data analysis by ProPublica shows the administration has cut federal health agencies deeper than it has acknowledged. Sec. Kennedy said he would add scientists. Yet agencies have lost thousands of them. @propublica.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...,

We dug deep to answer this important question: How Many Federal Health Workers Have RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration Cut? @bxroberts.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social @pratheekrebala.bsky.social

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

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The Senate reconciliation bill would cut federal #Medicaid spending by over $200 billion more than the House bill though the increases vary by state. In 14 states, the Senate bill would reduce federal Medicaid spending by at least $5 billion more than the House bill. www.kff.org/quick-take/s...

We don't have updated and detailed CBO scores and the final language for the just-passed Senate reconciliation bill isn't yet available. But the devastating impact will likely be about $1 trillion/10 years in #Medicaid cuts and about 17 million more uninsured.

“By doing nothing to push back against attacks on lower courts], and by behaving in a way that gives the appearance of justices more interested in rationalizing their votes than in reconciling their jurisprudence, #SCOTUS is ultimately weakening the federal judiciary at the worst possible moment.”:

Must be a truly terrific bill if Republicans' response to basic questions about its costs is "la la la I can't hear you" (via @bbkogan.bsky.social)

Powerful.

Kids without cancer also have a right to seek safe asylum, but it's particularly heinous to see sick 6 year olds threatened w/guns and denied life-saving medical care. Most cases of early childhood leukemia are treatable but only w/early intervention + consistent care. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Warning signs flashing red - increasing dehumanizing rhetoric from a fascist authoritarian leader and his partisan allies

quaker here. do i now have a right to have my children opt out of seeing any school books that relate to war?

Jackson: "Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more."

Which means a baby born in New York to undocumented parents will be a citizen. But a baby born to undocumented parents in Kentucky will not be a citizen. This is madness.

This one's going to hurt for reproductive access, women's health, and the rights of Medicaid recipients generally. Damn.

A big part of the reason abortion numbers are up post-Dobbs is because of telehealth shield providers mailing pills into states with bans and severe restrictions. Just look at this chart from #WeCount's latest release. /1

To emphasize @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social's point, in response to questions from Rep. Bilirakis specifically about the voucher program announced last week, Sec. Kennedy does say that FDA has "already applied it to a number of new drugs," which seems to contradict FDA's forward-looking framing. /1

Makary makes many claims here that sound like "common sense" but are problematic. 1st he says FDA's reg reqs have made the US "less competitive in the global race for new drugs and treatments." I'm not aware of any sponsor planning to skip the US market. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

If Republicans stand behind their phenomenally unpopular and regressive budget bill, they should defend it on the merits. Instead they're touting legislation that doesn't exist -- a fantasy bill that somehow doesn't widen deficits, purge people from Medicaid, or give its biggest benefits to the rich

Told Prasad and Verdun disagreed over the regulation of CAR-T products, as well as Capricor Therapeutics’ Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug deramiocel (CAP-1002).

Some private subs for slashed or mutilated government responsibilities are cropping up, including the National Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (nachrp.org), with former OHRP regulators and members of SACHRP, and the Vaccine integrity Project (www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...).

Things are very bad for U.S. vaccination policy these days and are only going to get worse. In @nejm.org, I examine the recent news about COVID-19 vaccines and ACIP, what likely lies ahead, and what the medical and public health communities should do to lessen the damage www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Look at how much work the Court's abortion cases do here. The majority cites Dobbs to say that regulating a medical condition/procedure isn't sex discrimination, and another abortion case, Gonzales v. Carhart, to suggest that legislatures deserve discretion when there is scientific uncertainty.

vinay prasad now not only cber head but fda cmo and chief scientific officer per email to fda staff.

🚨 After more than three months, Columbia University is no longer frozen out of NIH funds, per source. Terminated grants will not (yet) be reinstated, but money should begin flowing otherwise, I'm told.

Makary keeps saying he is trying to improve culture and morale at FDA - yet keeps repeating misleading claims that the very smart FDA staff know are misleading about the agency.

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

Senate Republicans are apparently planning to make the draconian #Medicaid cuts in House-passed reconciliation bill WORSE even though it is strongly opposed by public and CBO estimates the Medicaid cuts alone will make 7.8M uninsured. Preliminary Senate bill language is expected later today.

❌ "Only Covid vaccine had placebo-controlled trials" ✅ Patently false Our dataset: 274 controlled vaccine trials, >3 million participants, 164 placebo-controlled trials Let’s go through each of the CDC scheduled routine vaccines: TL;DR – ALL of them have been placebo-controlled.

I’m very eager to hear from the now-former ACIP members—who (without exception?) dutifully followed CDC guidelines by not speaking publicly about ACIP’s work while serving on the committee—regarding what things were like for them, for ACIP, and for CDC since January.

Obligatory reminder that Sen. Cassidy, in explaining his decision to vote to confirm RFK Jr., stated that RFK Jr. had committed that "[i]f confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes." This... is a change.

This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

A Day With One Abortion Pill Prescriber www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...