"The Continuing Crisis, Part XI: Feral Children, Breaking Things"
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#MarthaStewart sold 4,000 shares of #ImClone Systems stock the day before the company's stock price plummeted after the #FDA rejected a key drug application. And got 5 months in prison after being convicted of Conspiracy, obstruction of Justice, and making false statements to federal investigators.
The top vaccine regulator ousted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the health secretary’s team has sought nonexistent data to justify antivaccine narratives and pushed to water down regulation of unproven stem-cell treatments.
Chilling article. The implications are devastating.
#Health #UShealthcare #RFK #Trump #FDA #Vaccines
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/peter-marks-fda-vaccine-regulator-rfk-jr-interview-9194e3b4
The FDA granted authorization to market the first test that can be performed entirely at home for detecting three sexually transmitted infections (STIs) #sti #health #sexuality #FDA #healthcare #life #US #usa
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-authorizes-first-home-test-153400480.html
Yahoo News · US authorizes first home test for three common sexually transmitted infections
#politics #trump #FDA #contamination #alt #foodcontamination
Heather Cox Richardson Food Contamination 4/6/2025
"The complaints come as the Trump administration is dismantling wide swaths of the federal government — including conducting mass layoffs at the FDA — and filling some key regulatory positions with industry-friendly voices. The new head of the FDA division that oversees baby formula is a corporate lawyer who previously defended Abbott against a lawsuit."
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#FDA #Layoffs Could Raise #Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety No mission, no research, no science, no knowledge. #FDA is eviscerated. In many areas of the #FDA, no #employees remain to process payroll, to file #retirement or layoff paperwork and to help overseas #inspectors who are at risk of maxing out agency credit cards. Even the agency’s #library where researchers and experts relied on medical journal subscriptions that have now been canceled, has been shut down. https://archive.is/NBha8
#usa deregulating its #fda, after being one of the most permissive states for decades when it comes to the use of growth hormones and lack of regulations, and then complaining about #europe is using fake #science to “just be meanies” and not buy american crap protein, is right up there with “they’re eating the cats and the dogs”.
To quote a great american mind, “that’s the great thing about science - it’s true whether you believe it or not.”
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“An estimated 3,000 people die each year, and 48 million are sickened from food-borne illnesses. The Trump admin’s cuts will affect the work of food safety agencies.”
Trump & RFK Jr’s MAHA mandate will sicken & kill people because they’re not actually making Americans healthy, they’re gutting HHS.
#Health #Science #HHS #FDA #FoodSafety #USPol
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This man is an American hero.
‘He’ll have to confront his maker for those lies’: FDA’s vaccine chief who resigned slams RFK Jr.
CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Dr. Peter Marks, the former head of vaccines for the FDA, who says he was pushed out for not agreeing to spread misinformation about vaccines.
CNN · ‘He’ll have to confront his maker for those lies’: FDA’s vaccine chief who resigned slams RFK Jr. | CNN PoliticsCNN’s Erin Burnett talks with Dr. Peter Marks, the former head of vaccines for the FDA, who says he was pushed out for not agreeing to spread misinformation about vaccines.
#RFKJr says 20% of #Doge’s health agency job cuts were mistakes
Health secretary says roles will need to be reinstated amid #Trump administration’s push to slash federal workforce
#usa #uspol #news #publichealth #fda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/rfk-jr-doge-cuts
The Guardian · RFK Jr says 20% of Doge’s health agency job cuts were mistakes
Vote Midterms He helped write the policies that guided manufacturers, worked to close loopholes that threatened safety, and trained the FDA’s investigators to uncover sterility failures at manufacturing plants scattered across the globe.
And he was among the thousands of employees at the #FDA and other federal health agencies who were abruptly purged on April 1st by republicans.
Not going to make America healthy, that's for sure —
trump layoffs begin to erode FDA drug review system
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-layoffs-begin-erode-fda-drug-review-system-2025-04-04/
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The #Senate Cmte on #Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions invited #RFKJr to attend a hearing next week to explain the firings. The committee is chaired by Republican U.S. Senator & physician #BillCassidy of Louisiana, whose vote was key to Kennedy's confirmation.
#Trump layoffs begin to erode #FDA drug review system
The Trump admin's #MassFirings at the FDA have removed employees critical to reviewing new #medicines, setting back years of effort to bring promising #treatments to #patients more quickly.
The FDA is slated to lose 3,500 employees under Secy of #HHS #RFKJr's massive *restructuring* of US #health agencies….
#NIH #CDC #FDA #PublicHealth #ConspiracyTheories #science #medicine #research #disease #ethics #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-layoffs-begin-erode-fda-drug-review-system-2025-04-04/
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No plan—not his *MAHA* agenda, not efficiency, nothing—can realistically explain cuts like these. Instead, the #MassFirings don’t seem to be a means to an end on the way to overhauling American #health. They are an end in themselves.
It’ll take months, if not years, to fully appreciate the effect that the cuts will have on America’s scientific enterprise.
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Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Labs facility is engaging in
unsanitary practices similar to those that led it to temporarily shut down just 3 yrs ago, sparking a nationwide formula shortage.
The plant takes shortcuts when cleaning MANU EQP & testing for microbes.
The new head of the FDA division that oversees baby formula is a corporate lawyer who previously defended Abbott against a lawsuit.
#Health #FDA #PublicSafety #USPol https://www.propublica.org/article/baby-formula-abbot-sturgis-michigan-shortages-unsanitary-conditions-workers-say
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Speaking of babies.
"The complaints come as the Trump administration is dismantling wide swaths of the federal government — including conducting mass layoffs at the FDA — and filling some key regulatory positions with industry-friendly voices. The new head of the FDA division that oversees baby formula is a corporate lawyer who previously defended Abbott against a lawsuit."
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