Powerful story about the impact of journalism and lawyering in calling attention and making a difference . . . eventually. But these individuals deserved justice sooner than 22 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

If you haven't seen it, NIH is again receiving applications for Certificates of Confidentiality for non-federally funded research. It is a relief to see this option available again. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Broader access to effective vaccines significantly improved the health and life span in the 20th Century. Florida has just taken a big step back in time. Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Here’s the text of the joint press eelease describing how CA, OR & WA will coordinate their review & incorporation of private medical organizations’ guidelines into state immunization recommendations that each state will develop & promulgate in line with its own laws www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...

Pediatricians fear sweeping changes to long-standing childhood vaccines — from hepatitis B to RSV — as Kennedy reshapes CDC policy. www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/c...

Viewpoint: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)'s draft guidance for Medicare's Drug Price Negotiation Program addresses concerns that manufacturers might use combination drugs to evade price negotiations. ja.ma/3USf7O4

Fear and trembling at NIH as administration moves to weaken peer review of research grants. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

House Republicans add to support for maintaining NIH budget in 2026: Both chambers of Congress have now rejected Trump’s proposed 40% cut | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

This headline tells the tale. Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...

Excited that my most recent article (with Samantha Kench (former GSU student) and Marielle Gross ) was published last week in Science - Disrupting the biospecimen “treasure trove”: Practice, precedent, and future directions | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Eliminating barriers to #mentalhealth care for physicians is essential to prevent untreated conditions and suicides, improve well-being, and maintain high-quality patient care. ja.ma/4moVdGo

From 2010 to 2022, international medical graduates made up approximately 18% of the US #physician workforce, particularly in underserved urban areas, despite growing numbers of US medical graduates. ja.ma/4lzGxTr#physician#MedEd

Vani Pariyadath: ‘A whole body of health-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today's @kffhealthnews.org haiku: UNWAVERING SUPPORT Dear CDC staff: All of us in public health stand strong with you now. - Kristi Jones

Great article @michaelrulrich.bsky.social! Skrmetti and Supreme Court–Sanctioned Intrusion on the Practice of Medicine url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837433?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080725

"The CDC is at particular risk because its role is poorly understood, is often misrepresented, and, though traditionally nonpartisan, has tepid congressional support." Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

"After a 15-year struggle to repeal Obamacare, the GOP has succeeded in enacting policies that could reverse many of the coverage gains made under the ACA." Progress Lost — The Unraveling of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A senior leader at one NIH institute said: “At my level we are legitimately trying to figure out how to keep funding high-impact science given what we expect will happen.” The senior leader added: “Our grants people are barely holding it together because they are at the center of this chaos.”

Two-spirit and LGBTQ+ Native Americans are in “panic mode” amid federal rollbacks of discrimination protections and gender-affirming care, said Itai Jeffries of the Raven Collective, a Native public health consulting group. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Thank you @statnews.com for keeping the research community (and others) informed when things change so very quickly!

We're hiring! Georgia State Law's nationally-recognized Center for Law, Health & Society is recruiting for a health law faculty member with a focus on health care business, financing and/or regulation to join us in Atlanta! Open-rank, apply by Sept. 1, 2025. facultycareers.gsu.edu/postings/5807

"Altogether, the bill would enact the largest cuts to federal health care spending in history. . . lead[ing] to 11.8 million people losing health insurance over the next decade" Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending www.statnews.com/2025/07/01/s... via @statnews.com

A new twice yearly drug could significantly reduce HIV infections, but because of US funding cuts "we’re moving backwards at warp speed" Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Threats to federal funding have created 'a climate of anxiety' among medical researchers, says Maximilian F. Konig, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins. But those who live with autoimmune diseases could suffer the greatest consequences. | Hub hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/24/n...

Is RFK Jr. interested in making vaccines safer? If so, safety scientists say he knows how to reach them. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

My latest article with Laura Beskow, Equal Rights and Protections for Human Subjects Research: A Call to Action, is now out in the University of Maryland Carey School of Law's Journal of Health Care Law & Policy. digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Countering misconceptions about science via op-eds - “Let me tell you, as a federally funded scientist, what it is that I do, why it’s important, and why it helps our community.” U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Given the political climate and ubiquity of misinformation, I suspect that requests for unvaccinated blood will continue apace or even increase. Patients think it’s safer — but my research suggests it’s quite the opposite www.statnews.com/2025/06/11/u...

And an excellent panel at last week's ASLME Health Law Professor's conference explained why this is a failed approach (summary - most people on Medicaid already work (or meet exceptions), the paperwork is burdensome and costly, resulting in ELIGIBLE people losing their insurance)

The proposed cuts to Medicaid raise the stakes for rural hospitals nationwide, with many of them already operating on razor-thin, if not negative, margins. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

A new $50 million NIH initiative to find the causes of autism faces questions about transparency and independence. www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/n...

Recently cut NIH grants funded research to improve health among racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people. KFF Health News’ @raelnb.bsky.social appears on @wamu.org's “Health Hub” to explain how research could be set back years. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Bexorg comes out of stealth. New Haven co. commercializing Vrjselja & Sestan's 2019 gobsmacking revived pig brain work www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Endpoints follows the company's efforts to use human brains, kept (sort of) working for 24 hrs, to test drugs. endpoints.news/rebooting-de...

On my to read list (one of the many tabs open in my browser)

As state and local health departments nationwide try to make sense of what the potential loss of $11 billion of federal health funding will mean for the services they can offer their communities, memory cafe organizers believe their work may become even more important.

Excellent question! - “'For God’s sake, we lead the world in medical research. Why would we give up on it?' Durbin asked." Senators push back on Trump’s proposed $18 billion NIH budget cut www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/n... via @statnews.com

ICYMI: interesting @theatlantic.com piece on non-human animal cloning, going inside the business. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... I'd still like to see success/animal welfare numbers, wh/companies largely keep secret, but, esp w/livestock, it is already quite a big (& impressive) business.

There has been bipartisan support for NIH funding for decades for a reason -- that funding advances health. It also has positive economic impact too. NIH details how Trump budget would cut support for grants, training, and research centers www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n... via @statnews.com

Options are needed to address loneliness among the elderly (and others), but some concerns: 1) not everyone can navigate the tech (especially with developing cognitive impairment) -- I've seen this with my mom's dementia) and 2) not everyone has access to a smartphone or reliable connections

Interesting and helpful approaches - The U.S. slashed HIV/AIDS funding. Here is how countries that relied on it might adapt www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/h... via @statnews.com

Thanks for posting throughout our fabulous day, @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social! It was a whirlwind for me serving as moderator for our true leader @jalaynearias.bsky.social, so this allows me to reflect on the day!

Important recommendation. My mom had serious reactions to 5-FU that resulted in hospitalization and early termination of her treatment for colon cancer. Fortunately she survived both the cancer and the cure (almost 29 years after her diagnosis).

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.

Excited to be in Boston for tomorrow's Legal Scholars in Health Sciences workshop (aka WEIRDOS). Under @jalaynearias.bsky.social's leadership, we have a great day planned! Can't wait to see everyone (and then roll into the ASLME Health Law Professors conference)!

"For the sake of health and the economy, we can only hope that the Trump administration will recognize that funding science is good economic as well as health policy." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“The cable also instructs consular officers to inform applicants with private social media accounts that they could be viewed as evading vetting” - penalizing individuals for simply protecting their privacy is absurd www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Today's @kffhealthnews.org haiku highlights the contradiction in the MAHA agenda: SO MUCH FOR MEDICAL ADVANCES End chronic disease. Let our children die early — unvaccinated. - Susan Platkin with link to: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

To better understand the proposed national Medicaid work requirements, we look to work requirement experiences in two states – Arkansas and Georgia. Explore the context and insights:

There are thousands of residents who are supposed to start in less than a month in hospitals across the US who cannot enter the country. There is going to be a major staffing crisis across the country but especially in rural and urban hospitals than rely on international medical graduates. #MedSky

Confounding race with genetics causes doctors to miss treatable ailments. buff.ly/d1Iqvum