Health care vs. healthcare: The most important issue around? No. One people get exercised about? Well, yes.
An explanation of why @statnews.com has the temerity to break with @apstylebook.com.
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NEW: NIAID appoints new acting director after weeks-long questions over leadership. Via @aniloza.bsky.social
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The small HHS office tasked with protecting clinical research participants’ safety has lost half its employees — through "reductions in force," resignations, or early retirements.
Via @mmolteni.bsky.social
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#HHS refused for weeks to confirm what was widely known: Jeffery Taubenberger had been removed as acting director of #NIAID. Today HHS confirmed that John H. Powers is now acting director.
Why this happened & why HHS refused to admit it remains undisclosed. www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/n...
The NIH has appointed researcher John Powers III to lead its infectious disease institute on an acting basis, after weeks of being in leadership limbo.
Texas AG Ken Paxton is launching an investigation into popular energy drink Alani Nu over whether it's "deliberately marketing a potentially harmful product to an at-risk" (young) "population."
For more context on wellness-branded energy drinks like Alani Nu: www.statnews.com/2025/05/13/e...
OHRP has experienced an unprecedented exodus of ethics expertise, raising concerns about its ability to effectively protect volunteers.
The Trump administration wants low-income people who have cancer, kidney failure, and other complex conditions to prove they can't work in order to keep their Medicaid coverage. www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/m...
The NIH has appointed researcher John Powers III to lead its infectious disease institute on an acting basis, after weeks of being in leadership limbo.
Patients are getting used to being recorded at the doctor's office. But are doctors comfortable with patients recording them?
@katiepalmer.bsky.social addresses several aspects of this topic, spurred by new apps springing up to help patients keep track of what's happening.
#AI #health #patients 🩺🖥️
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦
The $22 billion energy drink industry is tapping into the aesthetics of health and wellness to reach new demographics and continue its exponential growth.
Researchers know far more about puberty in females than males. Now they want to close that gap. www.statnews.com/2026/06/04/m...
new eo dropped last night: Trump outlines who his administration intends to move into schedule F, making them easier to fire
At NIH, it includes the deputy directors of the agency and some branch chiefs/division directors
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Sarah Todd
Bob Herman
It’s the Bethesda Declaration’s birthday — to mark the occasion, 73 NIHers have a report outlining ongoing concerns, which have become “more insidious and systematized, but no less harmful” as @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put it
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Due to a significant gender gap, far less is known about the health risks of early or late puberty onset among boys than girls.
In a report published on the first anniversary of the Bethesda Declaration, 71 staffers write that they feel NIH leadership “largely ignored" their concerns
