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One of my high-level professional fears is the destruction of Google Scholar. And now, here we go.
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.”
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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...
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/...
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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/
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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