Independent journalist for Medscape, Smithsonian, covering all things health and science. Consumer and chronicler of food, music, art and culture. More-than-mediocre tennis player. Beach yogi.
Alicia Ault
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It's never too late to retract shoddy or corrupt papers.
via @retractionwatch.com
#sleuths #talc #drugsafety #healthpolicy #retraction #TheLancet #cancer #ovariancancer #Medsky
Florida Gov DeSantis signed a bill that gives three more months of access to HIV medications under Ryan White program.
#AIDS #IDsky #healthpolicy #publichealth #Biktarvy #LGBTQ
The company had been profiting off Medicaid for years, @wsj.com investigation showed. Also, its billings soared, the founder bought $2.5 million home on Florida’s Sanibel Island and $600,000 waterfront house in Indiana.
#Medsky #healthlaw #fraud #healthpolicy #pediatrics #autism
The two IG reports--based on a selection of 40 nursing homes flagged for dementia care failings--are damning. Same story for decades--not enough staff, too many people being failed.
My story for @medscape.com
#geriatrics #Psychsky #eldercare #schizophrenia #Alzheimers #dementia #neurology
Crazy story. A bomb was left at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa; not found until 6 days later. A brother and sister of Chinese descent indicted. Brother fled to China. MacDill is home to Central Command, HQ for Iran war.
#Florida #crime #TampaBay
The drug, GH001, is a synthetic inhaled formulation of mebufotenin(5-MeO-DMT), under development by GH Research. Mebufotenin is found in nature in seeds, bark, and leaves of a number of plants in the Amazonian rainforest and in the venom of some toad species.
#trauma #mentalhealth #psychedelics
Trump admin investigating admissions policies at Stanford, Ohio State and UC San Diego.
"our investigation will focus on possible race discrimination in medical school admissions" -- DOJ
#Medsky #MedEd #medicalstudents #politics #medicalschool
CDC measles update: as of 3/26, 1,575 confirmed cases in 31 states.
There were 285 cases in 2024 and 2,285 in 2025.
Around 90% of cases in 2025 and 2026 are from US outbreaks. Only 69% were in 2024.
#IDsky #immunology #MMR #vaccines #pediatrics #publichealth #epidemiology
By age 24 months, for kids born in 2021-22, significant decreases for influenza vaccine; smaller decreases for birth dose of HepB, rotavirus, pneumococcal conjugate and primary series Hib. Decreases observed for all vaccines.
#IDsky #pediatrics #obgyn #primarycare #familymedicine #vaccines
FDA’s top infectious disease regulator to depart agency www.statnews.com/2026/03/18/f... via @statnews.com
SewcreamStudio/iStock The Lancet has retracted a 49-year-old unsigned commentary on the safety of cosmetic talc after two researchers discovered the author was a paid consultant to Johnson & Jo…
The HHS Inspector General claims that some nursing homes are inappropriately diagnosing residents with schizophrenia and prescribing antipsychotics without proper oversight.
An investigative inhaled formulation of the psychedelic mebufotenin is linked to significant improvements in depression symptoms compared to placebo, a phase 2b trial shows.
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Over 10,000 HIV-positive Floridians were set to lose their medications due to changes enacted by the state health agency to cut costs.
