The Trump admin is pushing to terminate rules that mandate basic rights & sanitary conditions for detained children.
Already, CBP is detaining kids in tents, airports & prison-like settings, according to lawyers
By @sandywestreporter.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
A transplant recipient whose body was rejecting his organ because DHS won’t give him his absolutely essential anti-rejection meds. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrests-...
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
“On Thursday, Quinhin Nantote, Guinea-Bissau’s minister of public health, said the study had not received proper ethical approval, and his office has suspended it… “We have no evidence of any meeting they held, we don’t even have minutes of a negotiated approval,” he said.”
Screenshot of Rx Inspector webpage, where users can look up where their generic prescription drugs were made. A blue button prompts people to "begin your search." The background illustration shows a man inspecting a giant red and white pill capsule.
THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
One of my high-level professional fears is the destruction of Google Scholar. And now, here we go.
There's a big problem with the "two degrees" of warming message in the climate conversation. I wrote about it for @slate.com:
slate.com/technology/2...
New article by me:
You've heard of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic.
Get ready for the next wave of obesity medications that influence *amylin*: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
This morning, I'm headed to @ScienceWriters' #SciWri25 — looking forward to catching up with folks in Chicago.
Happy to see that my book #FoodIntelligence with @juliabelluz.bsky.social is featured by the Next Big Idea Club as their book of the day. bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/p/if-losing-...
When Americans visit Paris and marvel at how svelte people are, it’s not because Parisians have superior willpower
Today, I unpacked the real secret to eating well in France in my latest for
@nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
I received the new book Food Intelligence by my friend @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social and cannot put it down. It's beautifully written. There are revelations about the inner workings of nutrition on every page. I strongly recommend it!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334...
"Alien: Earth" premieres next week, and I'm the host of the official companion podcast. So...would you like to know more?
I put together a bibliography of my background stuff for the show. No spoilers except, like, philosophical ones, I guess?
www.adam-rogers.net/alien-earth-...
He needed air. The price was $539.
When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price.
5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler.
He paid with his life.
www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky
"As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives"
@annamaria.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Amy Maxmen's important story in KFF Health News: 150 cow veterinarians were blood-tested for signs of H5N1, study's author was going to publish results in MMWR & give a webinar; CDC canceled both. Your current govt wants you kept blind about infectious disease.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
