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“NIH” put out a memo about how they are making a “concerted effort” to support Early Stage Investigators (ESI). In the data presented, there is a decrease in funding rates from 26.1% in ‘24 to 18.9% in ‘25. Median age of ESIs stayed flat at 40.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
reminds of that old bible story of how people were hungry and jesus conjured himself a security detail bsky.app/profile/carl...
Screenshot of e-mail from CMS saying "CMS has decided to delay the requirement to transition all research studies into the CCW VRDC indefinitely."
CMS makes it official: no plans to cancel physical Medicare and Medicaid data access, forcing everyone to use the VRDC enclave. Instead, some more paperwork to make and extend DUAs – which is way better than what they were proposing!
Another instance of a center director acting unilaterally to overrule other staff (which here also involved ignoring FDA's previous statements to the company).
As @reshmagar.bsky.social and I have argued, the bar should be much higher for such unilateral action:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One of the goals of H.R. 1's draconian #Medicaid cuts was to deter the 10 non-expansion states from adopting it in the future like repealing the fiscal incentive for new expansion, restricting existing provider taxes in expansion states, and cutting state directed payments more in expansion states.
Catch that $NVS ad last night? It is a form of unbranded advertising. Novartis wants men to have their PSA levels checked because the company is heavily invested in prostate cancer therapies.
I had a chance to speak with Rebecca Robbins at the @nytimes.com about TrumpRx. The bottom line, if you have insurance, “In the vast majority of cases, it’ll be cheaper to go through your insurance.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/h...
We would like to recruit a stellar junior faculty member in the Division of Child Health Research and Policy @deptpopmed.bsky.social at Harvard. Please circulate this announcement widely!
www.populationmedicine.org/divisions-ce...
It turns out racists do racist things.
Ho hum. The FDA wants to rein in drug ads. On Super Bowl Sunday, it will be business as usual, via @statnews.com
Amazing how I’ve written many letters of recommendation that have supported people for jobs, medical school spots, fellowship placement, etc, and never once felt the need to comment on their body size or attractiveness 😳😳😳
You’ve got some real winners, #Yale
Democracy Dies in Darkness...At the Whims of Billionaires. It's disheartening to see so many people laid off from the Post today. Across government and in the private sphere, we have gutted the very institutions which made us great.
U.S. tax dollars backed the effort to wipe out neglected tropical diseases for 20 yrs. Many countries eliminated 1 disease, and were tantalizingly close on others. Then the U.S. walked away – jeopardizing all that investment, with diseases poised to come roaring back www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/h...
I ordered World Peace and yet...
The constitutional prohibition on using federal law to abridge the freedom of the press is unusually explicit and really does mean what it says.
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a five-year-old Minnesota boy and his father cannot be immediately deported, one week after their arrest sparked international outrage.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
I didn't get the memo that regulations were like horseshoes and hand grenades.
A teacher literally shaking as she describes the threat from her own government to the children she teaches www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
"...ultimately it's up to each of us as citizens to speak out against injustice, protect our basic freedoms, and hold our government accountable."
We lost a giant in public health today.
Dr. William H. Foege helped eradicate #smallpox - the only human disease ever eliminated—through science, surveillance, and vaccines.
His legacy is the antidote to today’s antiscience, anti-vaccine rhetoric.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported.
economist.com/united-state...
It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.
“We have become a country whose government is attacking its universities, defunding research, reversing scientific advances, assaulting museums and hollowing out cultural institutions.”
Stop.The.Lies. There is no bottom.
