//A source [said Thaksin] travelled to Singapore for a scheduled health check-up [and] plans to return to Thailand before the court's ruling on Sept 9. The source emphasised that the trip is solely for medical reasons and not an attempt to evade justice.// www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/pol...

Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

"I knew that if we were in Canada, this is a boy who would easily be treatable . . . and yet we just had to sit there and watch him die." Doctors and aid workers describe watching helplessly as Palestinian children die of starvation and treatable injuries www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help apnews.com/article/trum...

Chinese government launches investigation after 233 children poisoned with lead www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Shanghai issues “negative list” to doctors of online behaviours to avoid, amid transparency concerns, by @flynnmurphy.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Fact checking the new COVID.gov website kucharski.substack.com/p/fact-check...

Lu Siwei, Chinese human rights lawyer who fled to Laos and sent back to China, is sentenced to 11 months in prison for "illegally crossing the border". Many rights lawyers are now barred from leaving China: ino.to/xOZe4eL

FDA “is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities.” from the great @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social

Gaza: Israel’s hospital attacks leave critically ill patients lying on the street www.bmj.com/content/389/...

A STAT Special Report Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued

new Pynchon novel!!!! about a 1930s private eye!!!! named Hicks McTaggart!!!!

//Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. will soon announce a "major" tariff on pharmaceutical imports. Speaking to an event at the National Republican Congressional Committee, Trump said the tariff will incentivize drug companies to move their operations to the U.S.// www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

//Apart from Office functions, Microsoft will also stop offering artificial intelligence services including Github Copilot and GPT operated by OpenAI, according to the internal email seen by Nikkei Asia.// asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...

//Until now, a practitioner [in Australia] would only have active sanctions or suspensions listed on their registration and once any conditions were inactive, they would be removed from public view.// www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

A shout out again for Flynn Murphy's brilliant in depth analysis of the US tariffs, China and global medical supply chains. It's free to read. bsky.app/profile/munk... @globalhealthnow.bsky.social

Amid Measles Outbreaks, Poison Centers See Uptick in Vit A Exposures in Kids www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Superb piece by Jill Lepore on how Musk's futurism constitutes a retread of the reactionary, antidemocratic, and bizarre technocracy movement that his grandfather led. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

WHO to cut budget by a fifth following Trump withdrawal

//[China] also launched an anti-dumping probe into imports of certain medical CT tubes from the U.S. and India, and a wider industry competitiveness investigation into imports of medical CT tubes.// www.reuters.com/world/china-...

“RFK Jr. promised radical transparency; he only got half of that right. This is radical." — Communications staff & workers in #HHS agencies' freedom of information offices among those fired on Tuesday. Flow of info, which was already not great, sure to slow. www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...

My latest for The BMJ

Happy Liberation Day. Here's how Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains

What was all that about a “mysterious” covid-like virus overwhelming Chinese hospitals? We factchecked how the stories about human metapneumovirus (HMPV) came about. It's all about the poor use of data (again!) www.bmj.com/content/388/...

"Health officials overseeing the city of Wuhan in China have been forced to stop HIV clinics from uploading results to a new digital system for test sharing after two HIV positive patients were refused hospital treatment.“ Story by @flynnmurphy.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Gearing up vs the potential of building "mirror life" A looming danger of bioengineered reversed-chirality bacteria and microbes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

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