The Voices of '30 former U.S.A.I.D. employees, contractors and partners in Washington, around the country and overseas [...] in the year since Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, proudly announced that he had fed the agency “into the wood chipper.”'
"Nearly half (49.6%) of responses were problematic: 30% somewhat problematic and 19.6% highly problematic." "The audited chatbots performed poorly when answering questions in misinformation-prone health and medical fields."
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Citizens Bank is financing ICE detention companies. More and more account holders are saying "not with my money", including this City Council member in Cambridge Massachusetts: www.facebook.com/reel/9587020...
"When one member of a group calls out and resists wrongdoing, others who witness that moral example are themselves more likely to follow it." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/13/o...
"An internal [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] CPB investigation found failures in providing proper medical care and that medical personnel did not review documents the mother offered which described the girl’s sensitive condition." apnews.com/article/immi...
This is concerning: “they are going to get very, very detailed and granular data about everything that happens. The concern here is the more information they have, they could use it to discipline or target people who are not cooperating politically.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
To truly achieve access to essential medicines, we need to rethink public health through the lens of 'freedom to'—the active opportunity for everyone to thrive. Insightful historical perspectives on this in the podcast below. Worth listening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kqs...
FTC strikes proposed deal with CVS over charges its PBM manipulated insulin prices, impeded access www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20... via @statnews.com
There is a need for more signs like that.
Fostering foster effective communication across the political spectrum: "collectivist, action-oriented, and affirmative framing approaches were preferred by a larger proportion of respondents across all political ideologies" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“This is a great first start,” Moore said. “We shouldn’t have citizens walking around, living in fear. People should have an avenue to be able to report that.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/13/m...
"You can get another job; you can’t get another soul" We must amplify one another’s voices as we communicate with the public, and reward those who, on top of their science, do this critical work for the common good. www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...
Being an ACIP member used to mean you were at the top of your field. Now the bare minimum is "this shitty paper didn't actually get retracted but everyone can see it's awful."
Sorkin "Microsoft filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Trump administr., urging a federal court to temporarily block the Pentagon’s designation of the A.I. company as a supply chain risk. It is, by any measure, a remarkable act." www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379...
No directly health related but important: "More than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government." www.wired.com/story/openai...
Many academic institutions failed to protect their institutional integrity, while state boards failed to protect the public's safety. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
As controversial decisions mount, FDA shuns public advisory meetings - drugmakers and advocates want more insight into agency’s decision-making under Trump www.statnews.com/2026/03/09/f...?
As pointed out in this commentary, it is worth remembering that "patient autonomy can only be fully realised when the information available is accurate and reliable." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
One of the most powerful voices in the biopharma industry, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Ph.D., has weighed in with sharp criticism of the FDA’s Vinay Prasad, M.D., and his performance as the chief of CBER [at the FDA], which regulates vaccines in the U.S.
www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfize...
Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...
Paul Krugman "to save American democracy must include a push to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top. We know that this can be done, because it has been done. [...] FDR won that war. Progressive taxation and mass unionization." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
No longer is the FDA a model agency: "The result is that the FDA is soliciting advice after it has decided what to do, rather than deciding what to do after hearing and appropriately considering independent experts’ advice." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“When the U.S. government starts to engage in corporate America in a way that tastes of favoritism, I know for most CEOs that I’m friends with, they find it incredibly distasteful,” Griffin said www.wsj.com/business/ken...
The uniqueness of each patient is at the heart of this year’s #WorldCancerDay.
🎧 Louise Chappell and Na’ama Carlin, both cancer survivors, discuss the importance of personalised cancer care and its effect on their bodies and their lives. spkl.io/63328AsBGy
Today is #WorldCancerDay💔 No one should have to choose between survival and financial ruin. www.youtube.com/@A2MIndia/sh...
