The GRAS loophole lets food companies add untested chemicals to your food without telling the FDA. RFK Jr talks a big game about closing it, but you can’t fix a regulatory void while gutting the agency meant to fill it.
@gfriedman.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com
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To limit antibiotic overuse, we may be able to apply lessons from the opioid epidemic:
#IDsky #Medsky @medpagetoday.com @gfriedman.bsky.social
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The HHS nutritional competencies for medical education dropped and there are many reasons to be skeptical. It virtually erases RDNs and elevates unregulated professions to work as part of the care team. Thanks to @medpagetoday.com and @gfriedman.bsky.social.
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Running CDC is not a part time job or an afterthought and the agency needs stable leadership @medpagetoday.com @gfriedman.bsky.social @altcdc.altgov.info
My new piece for @medpagetoday.com, in which “Ob” Wan battles ultrasound droids through sand-swept maternity deserts
#MedSky
@gfriedman.bsky.social
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My latest for @medpagetoday.com
“Religious liberty” is no excuse for lazy work. I argue that students like Samantha Fulnecky don’t belong in medicine.
We won’t have high-quality care if fragile students throw tantrums over academic standards.
#medsky #TPUSA
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I've been keeping tabs on a terrible study for over a year and corresponding with the publishing journal. Getting a bad article retracted is a lot of work. Read more about my journey in @medpagetoday.com. Thanks to @gfriedman.bsky.social!
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"When the call came to stop, it didn't feel like closure. It felt like losing a patient I'd spent a lifetime caring for."
A CDC doctor writes in @medpagetoday.com about what it was like to be RIF'd.
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"Here's what concerns me most: the absurdity of the notion that an artificially generated, non-sentient avatar could be a reasonable companion for a child. It goes against everything we know about developmental theory." -- Jon Slater, MD
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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), aka the "voice of CDC," isn't publishing during the federal government shutdown.
According to sources, this marks a departure from past shutdowns, when MMWR staff were allowed to be exempt from furloughs. ⬇️
No place is immune to extreme weather. In a new #ClimateCheckup, 2025 Climate & Health Equity Fellow Dr. Janelle White urges healthcare providers to be prepared to help their patients and communities stay safe. @medpagetoday.com
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Big news.
Introducing: ✨The Nurses' Station ✨ A brand-NEW discussion board for nurses, brought to you by MedPage Today! 🩺
"Open minds, combined with expert input, are crucial for developing effective and beneficial policies.
Please stop the war on expertise and give briefings a chance, Secretary Kennedy. And please listen." -- Steven Grossman, JD
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RFK Jr. Has Declared Full-Blown War on CDC
— The agency needs to be strengthened, not torn down
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"We dropped to the ground and scrambled to the opposite side of the building. Then we heard noises in the stairwell. We told everyone: 'Get into offices. Lock the doors.'"
A CDC employee shared what it was like inside CDC during the shooting:
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"Based on data and past experience, we can expect the labeling changes to have little to no effect on meaningfully reducing overdose rates. The administration would be wise to concentrate its efforts elsewhere." -- @ryanmarino.bsky.social
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Editorial on the FDA panel’s misleading claims on SSRIs and congenital anomalies.
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#MedSky
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Sometimes, there is a difference between what is legal & what is right.
Do we want a world where doctors can refuse to care for a patient purely based on the patient’s marital status?
#medsky #obsky #oped
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A Tennessee physician allegedly denied a pregnant woman prenatal care because she’s unmarried. The doctor claimed it conflicted with her Christian beliefs.
Is this who we want to be as a field? #medsky #obsky
My #oped for @medpagetoday.bsky.social on the case:
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"Understanding what went well and what didn't can lead to lives saved the next time. Because if there's one thing that we're learning, it's that there will be a next time." -- Mary Meyer, MD, MPH
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My latest for @medpagetoday.bsky.social
Hard topic that needs nuanced discussion: how patients’ choices may sabotage their care. Something very important to me in this climate of misinformation & undermining doctors
We can’t fix everyone
#medsky #mentalhealth
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Thirty percent of U.S. adults would not or might not test for suspected COVID-19, according to a cross-sectional online national survey.
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In an #OpEd, @ameshaa.bsky.social argues that #ACIP has abandoned scientific integrity by voting to recommend only thimerosal-free flu vaccines -- despite no evidence of harm -- signaling a troubling shift toward anti-vaccine influence under RFK Jr.
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Here's my longer take on the FDA Commissioner's National Priority Voucher program. The key question is this: how fast is too fast for reasonable FDA drug review?
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(Thanks for reaching out, @gfriedman.bsky.social!)
In @medpagetoday.bsky.social yesterday, I wrote about the hypocrisy embedded in the budget bill taking aim at Medicaid. The party that ostensibly wants to leave policies to the states wants to penalize states for being more generous with their own state funds. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
"In an administration that maintains that government should be run like a business, it is odd that someone who misrepresented his intentions as blatantly as Kennedy did is still in his position." -- Robert Schooley, MD, in @medpagetoday.bsky.social
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BREAKING: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he's disbanding the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in order to "restore trust" in U.S. vaccine science.
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If you're in the market for more cocktails, feel free to send some op-ed submissions (or pitches) my way! gfriedman@medpagetoday.com
