Former FDA commissioner Robert M. Califf: HHS leadership is focused on policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy. Personal experience and observation are no replacement for outcomes data. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/a... via @statnews.com

US grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agency. Rush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is latest hint of a US brain drain. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Global #FoodEthics & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Whole Milk, Widespread Collapse, SNAP, Scaling Up Aquaculture, Women Farmers in Guatemala, Farmers Share Challenges, Coping Strategies, Satellite Data, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

Effective but Underprescribed: HIV Prevention Meds Aren’t Reaching Enough People | KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind Over Warning Immigrant Patients | KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots. Advisory committee panelists have said — contrary to scientific consensus — that they believe the Covid shots are dangerous and should be taken off the market. They are also reviewing research on vaccines for pregnant women. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...

Can Emerging Pain Management Options Help Surgeons Avoid Prescribing Opioids? - w comments from our Travis Rieder | ACS www.facs.org/for-medical-...

Navigating “Wicked” Disagreement in Public Health - By Safura Abdool Karim, Ruth Faden, Anne Barnhill, Virginia Brown, Jeff Kahn, Nancy Kass, Anna Mastroianni, Stephanie Morain, Vardit Ravitsky, and Reed Tuckson | AJPH ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...

44th David Barap Brin Lecture in Medical Ethics - Norman Fost, MD, MPH, "Cases That Changed Us: How One Patients Can Lead to Widespread Change" - Thurs, Feb 12, 4p ET. Join in person: Hurd Hall, Johns Hopkins Hospital or via livestream. Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/y61ihduu...

Biological data governance in an age of AI. Tailored access controls on new viral data would reduce misuse risks. | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Some Public Health Service officers dedetention centers suffer 'moral distress' | NPR www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...

He Built a Server to Protect Indigenous Health Data. Joseph Yracheta was in charge of a repository that compiled and protected tribal health data. Then its funding was cut. | The New York Times | Lost Science www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

AI Ethics & Governance Roundup | Where is AI Taking Us? AGI, Soul Document, Turning to AI to Avoid Accusations of AI Cheating, Exposed Chats with Kids, LLMs in Medicine, Privacy & Human-AI-Relationships, + Much More mailchi.mp/a4ce312ba7d2...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | No Mental Imagery, Consciousness, Non-Invasive BCI, What Counts as a Mind? In Love with a Machine? Ethics of Ant Afu, Not the Time to Defund Fetal Tissue Research, Halted Gene Therapy Trial, Safeguarding Genomic Data, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

Opinion | As RFK Jr. upends vaccine guidance, pediatricians are fighting back - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - MBE Q&A, New Events, Parents Rejecting Lifesaving Shots, FDA & Psychedelic Treatment, AI Renewing Prescriptions, Grant Cuts, Shadow CDC, Falling Off a Financial Cliff, Wonder Drug Plaguing Sports, Exit from WHO, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims. Experts worry RFK Jr’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine agenda. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

AI could transform research assessment — and some academics are worried. Resistance to using the technology, despite its labour-saving potential, is particularly prevalent in research-intensive universities. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH rolls back red tape on some experiments — spurring excitement and concern. Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care theconversation.com/medicare-is-...

AI could soon renew prescriptions without clinician help. Should the FDA make sure it’s safe? Doctronic claims its AI doctor doesn’t need FDA approval. Experts aren’t so sure. www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/u... via @statnews.com

Senate panel slams Trump’s NIH chief for grant cuts, vaccine views. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle decry disruptions to biomedical research under Jay Bhattacharya. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump administration officials blocked FDA effort to fast-track review of psychedelic treatment. Decision suggests possible discord on new class of therapies. www.statnews.com/2026/02/04/p... via @statnews.com

More Parents Are Rejecting a Lifesaving Vitamin Shot for Newborns. For decades, hospitals have given babies a vitamin K injection to protect against bleeding. Now, the shot appears to be facing resistance. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/w...

Join us Feb 26, Noon EST for the inaugural seminar of In Dialogue - Public Health & Religion Seminar Series: Featuring a conversation with Ellen Idler, PhD. Open to all, Join in person or online. Refreshments available, JHSPH W3008. Link for registration: mrprcbcw.hosts.jhmi.edu/redcap/surve...

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Determinants of Access, Illuminating the Eukaryotic Tree of Life, Informed Consent for Research in Space, Precisely Imprecise, Who Am I to Say? ECMO Values Balancing, 30 Years of MAID State Laws, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Interested in our Master of Bioethics (MBE) Degree program? Join us on Wed, Feb 11, 3-4p EST for an Admissions Q&A with MBE Program Director Travis Rieder. Link for more info and registration: bioethics.jhu.edu/events/admis...

States and medical societies are stepping up to fill the CDC’s data void - Dozens of routinely updated CDC databases have gone quiet. Here’s what states and medical societies are doing to preserve US public health | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/stat...

NIH Grant Disruptions Slow Down Breast Cancer Research - KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

#Bioethics Seminar (via Zoom): Nagla Rizk, PhD, "What is Feminist Artificial Intelligence? Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa". Mon, Feb 9, Noon EST. Open to all. Join us online, link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

The Earth BioGenome Project Phase II: illuminating the eukaryotic tree of life | Mark Blaxter, Harris Lewin, Federica DiPalma et al., including Debra Mathews | Frontiers in Science www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Starting today at noon. Join us!

For Some Americans, the End of Obamacare Subsidies Means Falling Off a Financial Cliff. Earning just one dollar more could mean a $10,000 increase in insurance premiums. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Where Is AI Taking Us? Eight Leading Thinkers Share Their Visions. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ian Reardon: How much should psychedelics researchers disclose about their personal use? Many entered the field because of their own experiences, creating ethical dilemmas. | First Opinion www.statnews.com/2026/02/02/p... via @statnews.com

N. Adam Brown: No, I Won't Watch 'The Pitt' — But you probably should. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/pres...

US exit from the World Health Organization marks a new era in global health policy – here’s what the US, and world, will lose theconversation.com/us-exit-from...

When Health Insurance Costs More Than the Mortgage - KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The Wonder Drug That’s Plaguing Sports. Ostarine held the promise of profound medical treatments. Something unexpected happened on the way to F.D.A. approval. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Public health crisis unfolding in Minneapolis as residents avoid healthcare. | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#Bioethics Seminar, TODAY, Feb 2, Noon EST: Amy McGuire, JD, PhD, "Will psychedelic medicine conform to or transform contemporary mental healthcare?". Johns Hopkins School of Nursing N431. Open to all, attend in person, lunch provided, link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Global #FoodEthics and Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Global Plan, Better Food System, Indigenous Trees, AI Enables Higher Food Prices, Cutting Dyes? Food Security Program, Botulism Outbreak, Global Standards, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/we3frp22...

7 pediatric bioethicists: Proposed ban on Medicaid funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for minors is deeply unethical. Decisions on gender-affirming care should rest with patients, families, and clinicians. www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/g... via @statnews.com

Structural and Policy Determinants of Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant People in US Jails - by Maya Lakshman, Sitara Murali, Camille Kramer, Carolyn Sufrin and Rebecca Fix www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/23...

ICYMI, Watch Now! "Inpatient and Incarcerated: Ethical Challenges in Caring for the Carceral Population" | Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch - Case Presentation & Discussion www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_-8...

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | America's AI Regulation War, Government by AI? Marching into a Dead End, Cultural Stagnation, School AI Policies, 'Humanizing' Chatbots, Malicious AI Swarms Threatening Democracy, LLMs for Informed Consent, + More mailchi.mp/d6f20214af3b...

These women in India break the law to sell their eggs for IVF : NPR www.npr.org/2026/01/29/g...

Doctors Kept a Man Alive Without Lungs for 2 Days. The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable. gizmodo.com/doctors-kept...

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | AI Delusions, Being Virtuous, Drowning in AI Slop, AI Scribes, Dr. ChatGPT, Two-Tier Framework, Plausible Mechanism Pathway Concerns, US Policy Shifts on Fetal Tissue and hESCs, + Much More mailchi.mp/jhu/sciencee...

📣 In this week's PCT Grand Rounds, @majeans2011.bsky.social and Mary Ryan Baumann of @uwmadison.bsky.social will present "A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Ambient Artificial Intelligence to Improve Health Practitioner Well-Being." Join us! 🔗 duke.is/pctnews20260...