BREAKING: Michigan reports a case of #H5N1 #birdflu in a farm worker who had exposure to dairy cows. statnews.com/2024/05/22/bir…

“The production lines can make seasonal flu vaccine. Or they can make pandemic flu vaccine. They cannot make both at the same time.”

Questions and answers about ramping up H5N1 bird flu vaccine manufacturing, by Helen Branswell 🇨🇦

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.Lindsey Graham to PhRMA VP Jocelyn Ulrich: 'you don't think there's a problem with pharmaceutical companies playing games to keep generics out of the market?'
Ulrich: 'I think that the system has the correct checks and balances in place.'
Graham: 'Yeah, well I don't.'

I've spent the last year talking to women with sickle cell disease who've felt pushed into getting sterilized when they still wanted more kids and weren't given adequate information, sometimes as recently as 2017 and 2022.

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Read. This. Now. Eric Boodman has worked so hard to tell this absolutely harrowing story.

Today we published the first part of our 'Coercive Care' investigation, the culmination of more than a year of work by Eric Boodman to bring to light the stories of people with sickle cell disease who were pushed into having sterilizations statnews.com/2024/05/21/sic… via STAT

SCOOP: BIO to announce reorganization, senior leaders expected to depart statnews.com/2024/05/20/bio… via STAT John Wilkerson Rachel Cohrs Zhang

New: PBM executives have been invited to testify before the House Oversight committee next month statnews.com/2024/05/20/pbm…

This story is now updated with details from the 30-person layoff at BIO today, including details from an announcement email.

News: A big shakeup is on the way at BIO today statnews.com/2024/05/20/bio…

BIO to announce reorganization, senior leaders expected to depart statnews.com/2024/05/20/bio… Stay tuned for more updates by John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs Zhang for STAT

Big shakeup coming today at BIO. statnews.com/2024/05/20/bio…

Bernie Sanders may have reached the limits of his pharma pressure campaign. Smart story via Rachel Cohrs Zhang statnews.com/2024/05/20/ber…

On this week's #WTHealth podcast: Sandhya Raman, Alice Miranda Ollstein, Rachel Cohrs Zhang and I talk bird flu, telehealth, Medicaid and more. Plus Atul Grover, MD, PhD on residents avoiding abortion ban states.
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This #STATbreakthrough session with Venrock partner/ACA architect Bob Kocher is gold.

“Hospitals remain remarkably unchanged because they’re afraid of hurting people. You realize it’s a lot more complex, and you can’t break things, you have to be really careful.”

Despite lessons learned from COVID-19, our federal agencies still aren't adequately addressing the emerging bird flu virus. We need a comprehensive, interagency effort to better understand this outbreak and take the action necessary to keep Americans safe.

This story is perhaps apt illustration of Mitt Romney Romney's concerns about fed bird flu response:
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via Rachel Cohrs Zhang Lizzy Lawrence Nicholas Florko

The latest installment in Nicholas Florko's series where he buys illegal stuff the FDA should be regulating: raw milk during a bird flu outbreak statnews.com/2024/05/15/bir…