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Mun-Keat Looi

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International News & Features Editor @bmj.com Journalism lecturer, @Imperial College London Japanophile, #MUFC. Views mine

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 2h

Contaminated cough syrup linked to deaths of 14 children in India www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Contaminated cough syrup linked to deaths of 14 children in India

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 12h

Gaza: Over 50 000 preschool children are acutely malnourished, study finds, as ceasefire deal progresses www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 12h

UK considers drug price changes as European leaders warn “unnecessary clinical trials” are sending wrong message to big pharma www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 12h

South African Medical Association severs ties with Israeli counterpart and calls for wider shunning of the group www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 13h

Heart attack care: Gender gap in Australia won’t close for a decade without action, researchers warn www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 1d

Melatonin gummies: Australia’s drug regulator issues safety warning over popular sleep “supplements” www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Melatonin gummies: Australia’s drug regulator issues safety warning over popular sleep “supplements”

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 2d

Tobacco industry “fighting back” with new nicotine products, WHO warns, with more than 100 million people now vaping www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Tobacco industry “fighting back” with new nicotine products, WHO warns, with more than 100 million people now vaping

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 2d

Young adult suicide rates rise www.axios.com/newsletters/... #axiosvitals

Axios Vitals - Young adult suicide rates rise

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating take on the real value of video AI. Video models “will become general-purpose foundation models for vision” in the near future, ultimately able to solve any visual challenge put to them without special training.

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AI video: more than just “slop”

The next big thing in AI may be pictures, not words

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 3d

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired www.science.org/content/arti...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

States fed up with high drug prices are cracking down www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

States fed up with high drug prices are cracking down

A Colorado panel voted Friday to cap the price for a best-selling drug from Amgen. It is one of four states that have passed legislation allowing price caps for specific prescriptions.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

What does Trump’s H-1B visa ban mean for doctors in the US? www.bmj.com/content/390/...

What does Trump’s H-1B visa ban mean for doctors in the US?

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

Why older people are still excluded from health research—and what can be done www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Why older people are still excluded from health research—and what can be done

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who was on administrative leave, alleged that the Trump administration had defied court orders and undermined vaccine research.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

Israel inflicts 17 “brutal attacks” on healthcare in Gaza City in just two weeks, UN reports www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

Trump launches website to help Americans buy cheaper drugs, with Pfizer signing up www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Trump launches website to help Americans buy cheaper drugs, with Pfizer signing up

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

Why can’t we do anything about delirium? www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Why can’t we do anything about delirium?

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 7d

“Unprecedented” US government shutdown could force mass furlough of health workers www.bmj.com/content/391/...

“Unprecedented” US government shutdown could force mass furlough of health workers

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 8d

Trump orders $50M for AI in pediatric cancer research www.axios.com/2025/09/30/t...

Trump orders $50M for AI in pediatric cancer research

The move is part of a broader embrace of artificial intelligence across federal agencies but comes as the administration is slashing biomedical research spending and pausing grants.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 8d

Trump cuts: Gaps in drug research funding in Europe can’t be filled, experts warn www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 8d

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 8d

Trump’s claims on Tylenol (paracetamol), vaccines, and autism—what’s the truth? www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Trump’s claims on Tylenol (paracetamol), vaccines, and autism—what’s the truth?

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 9d

Experts welcome Trump’s “America first” global health strategy www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Experts welcome Trump’s “America first” global health strategy

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 9d

Despite the headlines, covid-19 vaccines remain more widely accessible in the US than in the UK. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Covid vaccines: How is policy changing in the US and UK?

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 10d

DOJ sues over pro-Palestinian protest, using law on abortion clinic access www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 10d

Autism and ADHD de-diagnosing services could be rolled out in Sweden—should the US and UK follow suit? www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 10d

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 10d

Huntington’s disease: new gene therapy explained www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Huntington’s disease: new gene therapy explained