New today in JAMA Health Forum: Our team discusses how to fill policy gaps surrounding the use of psychedelics to treat mental health and substance use conditions, should they be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Gaps in US Psychedelic Policy and How to Close Them | Health Policy - By @caleighpropes.bsky.social, @katherinecheung.bsky.social, Matthew Eisenberg, David Yaden | @jama.com Health Forum jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New paper thread 🧵 Out today in Annals of Internal Medicine, Stephanie Morain @bermaninstitute.bsky.social and I discuss the role of IRBs in facilitating appropriate inclusion of pregnant people in clinical research: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... (1/6)

#ASBH25 - 3:45p PT | IRB Practices in Promoting Inclusion of Pregnant People in Research, Caleigh Propes | B119 asbh25.eventscribe.net/fsPopup.asp?...

"Too often, [Ruth] Faden told me, pregnant women are still viewed as fragile vessels who need to be sequestered from the world. 'We need to protect women through research, not from research,' she said."

Informed Consent Documents from Psychedelic Clinical Trials: A Descriptive Ethical Analysis - Katherine Cheung, Caleigh Propes, Marianna Graziosi, Kyle Patch, David Yaden | AJOB Empirical Bioethics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ruth Faden & Nancy Kass - The abrupt end of USAID-funded clinical trials is profoundly unethical: It’s also dangerous to the health of thousands of trial participants www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/u... via @statnews.com

"We have come a long way in preventing disease through vaccination, and we must not lose our progress." This Viewpoint discusses the importance of early and continued vaccine use in the US. ja.ma/42FLxAn #MedSky

Ethical considerations for sharing aggregate results from pragmatic clinical trials - Stephanie R Morain, Abigail Brickler, Joe Ali, Pearl O’Rourke, Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Benjamin Wilfond, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Caleigh Propes, Kayla Mehl, David Wendler journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Untapped Potential? Representativeness in Pragmatic Clinical Trials | Research, Methods, Statistics - By Caleigh Propes, Kayla Mehl, & Stephanie R. Morain | JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Recurring and Emerging Ethical Issues in Pragmatic Clinical Trials by Caleigh Propes, Pearl O'Rourke, Stephanie Morain | Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10....