This is bonkers. FDA is going to change leucovorin's label based on a lit review with data on 40 patients w/ cerebral folate deficiency and comparisons to "known natural history." www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...

Correlation vs Causation #tylenol #acetaminophen

NEWS: Scientists say the president of the United States and his health secretary distorted the facts behind Tylenol and autism, potentially setting back research and causing real harm to mothers and kids. By @amymaxmen.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

CDC has removed multiple webpages again. A list of sites that give a "404" message includes not just LGBTQ-related topics but also, inexplicably, an "Alzheimer's Communication Guide". #Medsky #Psychsky #Neurosky #familymedicine #internalmedicine #IDsky

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Significant comments from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on FCC chair Brendan Carr’s threat to ABC over Jimmy Kimmel. “That’s right out of Goodfellas. That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’” Cruz does the accent:

There’s competition, I know. But threatening to pull the broadcast licenses of the affiliates of an entire “big-3” television network unless they stop their evening talk show host from criticizing the president has to be one of the biggest First Amendment violations in U.S. history.

Shutting down the war on cancer. “New presidential administrations have usually gone out of their way to make transitions at the NIH as seamless as possible so as not to disrupt ongoing research…” Right. That’s not what is happening now. Must-read article. 🧪

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY you can leave a public comment for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, which meets Sep 18. Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up. You can submit a written comment here: www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...

Kudos to the post for beating me to this. Finishing up a story on this today. Have been digging into the legality of situation & its scary that there aren't a lot of protections in place to stop presentation & actions on bad data like this that contradicts CDC info.

I know we've been inching towards this a long, long time, but this is still a pretty big deal. The "nuclear option" in the Senate has finally been invoked. And, no surprise, Democrats considered this and balked; Republicans didn't. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

Well this would be a bombshell — getting rid of prescription drug ads on TV. Industry spends billions on this every year. Huge First Am. problems though. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

We talk about this in our very first class of the semester in Administrative Law.

In 2023, the U.S. spent an average of $13,432 per person on health care — nearly twice the average amount spent by comparable countries ($7,393 per person). Explore the comparisons: https://on.kff.org/4gdrfmD

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

covid directly killed millions of people and disabled millions more and yet it’s likely that the most damage it will do in the long term comes from enabling antivaxxers to take over public health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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Thrilled to announce an upcoming symposium at Utah Law (@sjquinney.bsky.social): Fireproofing the FDA: Power, Politics, and Public Health Free to register and featuring @deankronkwarner.bsky.social @saragerke.bsky.social @ghorvath.bsky.social . . . www.law.utah.edu/event/lee-e-...

There are actual professionals that provide dietary advice. They're called "dieticians."

Nature: Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility go.nature.com/3HDx4wD cc Jay Bhattacharya

I take weird pride in this. www.theringer.com/2025/08/15/n...

This was from yesterday’s episode of PBS News Hour with @meganranney.bsky.social - I highly recommend watching the whole segment (this particular part just stopped me in my tracks) CDC shooting highlights increasing rhetoric and hostility against health professionals www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Fresh off the press: GAO, the agency tasked in the Impoundment Control Act with adjudicating impoundments, says unequivocally that the pocket rescissions Donald Trump is considering doing are illegal.

Ahh another gem from N.D. Tex. and Reed O'Connor. This time Wulferic v. FDA, challenging a federal statute providing civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for tobacco firms. Vape company selling liquids unauthorized by FDA. Defense was that HHS ALJ violates 7th Am right to jury under Jarkesy. 1/

Now that threats to federal statistics have gotten your attention, check out the damage that’s already been done: www.amstat.org/the-nations-...

My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Maxim Polivanyi ~ Evening December, 2022 Colours and light are perfect in this one.

Some personal news: I will be unavailable in August as I complete the university’s required virtual trainings.

Another nail in the coffin for US-based conferences.

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

NEWS: Trump's cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid clear Congress House gives final passage by a vote of 216-213. The Senate passed it yesterday 51-48. With Republican votes only. Democrats all voted NO. This now goes to Trump for his signature. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

“If this program is implemented in its current form, it’s extremely likely that incorrect addresses will be given to DHS and individuals will be wrongly targeted.”

Saw this on the Admin Law Prof listserve. This is some Idiocracy-type content from our Interior Department.

Maybe this is just rage bait at this point, but I find it Interesting that heating uses 4x the energy globally as cooling does, but authors of AC-shaming articles like this never call for people to just “tough it out” through the winter without heating their homes 🤔

Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria. Diquat is banned in the UK, EU, China,etc, however the US has resisted calls to regulate it www.theguardian.com/environment/... Diquat is also thought to be a neurotoxin, carcinogen and linked to Parkinson’s disease

Finally finished the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy (the Three Body trilogy). A labor of love no doubt. But what a brilliant series by Cixin Liu.

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

"Make no mistake: This Republican policy bill is effectively a partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act to help pay for tax cuts, and should it reach President Trump’s desk, it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health coverage ever." #AffordableCareAct #Medicaid #Health

Either intentionally or unintentionally, Tucker's use of the word "postmodern" betrays his true intention: he wants to connect a certain aesthetic to what he thinks is a decay of traditional values. In the way that architecture has shifted below, we now have immorality.

When your policy platform is taking away 17 million people’s health insurance.

In a stunning reversal, the Senate voted 99-1 this morning to strip from Trump's big bill a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations. Gift link to my story on how it happened and who's celebrating: wapo.st/3TOyiaG

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a budget line item late Sunday that would have brought in an estimated $450 million in federal dollars to fund a summer food aid program for low-income children.