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Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 18d

Here's our new article reporting findings from stakeholder interviews in which we hoped to learn what it takes to successfully complete rigorous confirmatory studies after accelerated approval. Instead, we mostly heard willingness to trade rigor for feasibility. 1/
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Flexibility Over Rigor: Stakeholder Acceptance of the Limitations of Confirmatory Studies Following Accelerated Approval

Despite the importance of postmarketing requirements (PMRs) following accelerated approval and well-recognized shortcomings in their rigor and timeliness,

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · 16d

See recent articles in @jama.com, such as jamanetwork.com/journals/jam..., jamanetwork.com/journals/jam..., and jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @lisamjarvis.bsky.social

Trends in the Proportion of US and International Medical Graduates at the County Level

This study assesses temporal trends in US medical graduates’ and international medical graduates’ relative contributions to the total physician workforce from 2010 to 2022, by rurality and across medi...

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · 16d

Most early attention on the H-1B EO imposing a $100k fee is focused on the tech industry (i.e., good story by @joshwingrovebbg.bsky.social and Spencer Soper) www.bloomberg.com/news/article.... However, this policy will have a huge impact on healthcare delivery systems and research enterprise (1/2)

Trump Shapes Gilded Age of US Immigration With $100,000 H-1B Fee

President Donald Trump took his most extensive step yet toward overhauling the US legal migration system, with a pair of proclamations that explicitly favor the wealthiest of the world’s prospective e...

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · 28d

"Climate change is no longer a problem for our grandchildren but is inflicting profound economic and health damage right now.” @markgongloff.bsky.social

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · Sep 8

Climate change is an economic emergency, part 1000:

More than $1 trillion in US wages has been lost to wildfire smoke alone in the past 5 years. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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$1 Trillion in American Wages Has Gone Up in Wildfire Smoke

The toxic haze is a nightmare for health and productivity.

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Sep 6

Kudos to @fda.gov leadership for following through on their efforts to promote transparency by posting CRLs for 2024 pending or withdrawn product applications. There is a lot that scientists, industry and clinicians can learn when FDA does not approve a product www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fda-...

FDA moves to publish drug rejection letters in real time, releases new batch including Replimune's high-profile snub

The FDA today announced a plan to p | The Food and Drug Administration today announced a plan to publicly release complete response letters at the same time they are issued to sponsoring companies, pa...

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Sep 6

Great reporting on RFK "going wild" by sabotaging the @altcdc.altgov.info @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Sep 4

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

www.theatlantic.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Sep 4

Florida Made a Vaccine Mistake. Now, It’s Everyone’s Problem.

Agree with @lisamjarvis.bsky.social, viruses don’t give a damn for state lines

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Florida Made a Vaccine Mistake. Now, It’s Everyone’s Problem.

State efforts to protect access to shots are welcome, but they can’t compensate for others’ anti-science policies and a dysfunctional CDC.

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great story by @annaedney.bsky.social ... reminds me of what happened with Essure, as patients complaints went unheeded for years

Anna Edney @annaedney.bsky.social · Sep 4

In my @bloomberg.com Big Take out today I explored how Hologic pushed a medical device on breast cancer patients despite hundreds of complaints, most of which stayed buried until now

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Sep 3

"The American scientific enterprise is being unravelled before our eyes—research grants are being cut off, satellites disconnected, reports cooked up [by] particular industries and ideologies ... but in the end, the truth will [win] out." @billmckibben.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced

International climate experts have extensively debunked the D.O.E.’s recent report, but will science win out?

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Aaron Mitchell @thewonkologist.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Physicians receiving payments were more likely to prescribe the company's drugs, with a stronger association for payments that were larger, sustained and recent.”

New work on bribes to Rx multiple sclerosis drugs by Sayed, @reshmagar.bsky.social @jsross119.bsky.social

Industry payments to US neurologists related to multiple sclerosis drugs and prescribing (2015-2019): a retrospective cohort study - PubMed

Nearly 80% of neurologists prescribing MS drugs received at least one industry payment, with higher volume prescribers being more likely to receive payments. Physicians receiving payments were more li...

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Peer Review Congress #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · Sep 1

"In a world accustomed to receiving real-time information, the process of publishing medical research remains trapped in a system designed for a slower era,” per @jsross119.bsky.social & colleagues from @utoronto.ca Med in @annalsofim.bsky.social
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On a Slow Boat to Publication: Rethinking How We Disseminate Medical Research | Annals of Internal Medicine

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Aug 19

Amazing data visualization illustrating how Grier family manipulated science to ‘prove’ vaccines cause autism. Key take-home: "those who claim to champion people with autism are denying them real research while undermining one of public health’s greatest achievements" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism

Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · Aug 4

The EPA's disastrous plan to end the regulation of greenhouse gases & just let climate change run rampant. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... via @elizkolbert.bsky.social

The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

With a new proposal, the Trump Administration, which has already laid waste to dozens of programs aimed at limiting climate change, has managed to outdo itself.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Aug 4

1. On February 24, Extremity Care LLC, a company that sells very expensive bandages made from placentas, donated $5 MILLION TO TRUMP'S SUPER PAC

Days later, Trump froze a pending rule that would BAR MEDICARE FROM COVERING EXTREMITY CARE'S PRODUCTS, which are overpriced & not backed by science.

Days after $5 million donation to MAGA Inc., Trump freezes Medicare waste crackdown

Trump pledged to root out "waste, fraud and abuse." Then a big contribution to his Super PAC came in.

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Aug 3

"The esteemed climate scientist Michael Mann said the report was akin to the result he would expect “if you took a chatbot and you trained it on the top 10 fossil fuel industry-funded climate denier websites”."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Aug 3

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research

Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Aug 1

"If the US is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. America’s technology sector might lose its creativity. But science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state."

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jul 31

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

How Scientific Empires End

And what it means for America

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Jul 23

A singular achievement in reporting and storytelling: The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison, by @propublica.org and partners.

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison

On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

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Yale CRRIT @yalecrrit.bsky.social · Jul 21

High brand-name drug prices fall once a generic enters the market. In a new @journalgim.bsky.social article, Ravi Gupta, CRRIT Co-Director @jsross119.bsky.social, and colleagues from @portalresearch.org assess associations between patents, revenue, and generic competition.

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Jul 17

You cannot make this stuff up! @muskwatch.bsky.social reports that Musk's $9b neurotechnology company self-certified as a "small disadvantaged business", despite his >$400b net worth, and federal regs precluding designation to individuals with a net worth >$850k www.muskwatch.com/p/musks-neur...

Musk’s Neuralink falsified federal forms, claims to qualify for racial diversity program

The company, owned by the world's wealthiest man, says it is a "small disadvantaged business"

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Robin Rudowitz @robinr.bsky.social · Jul 17

988 contacts continue to grow; however, significant legislative changes to Medicaid are expected to result in less coverage and funding with implications for access to broader mental health services. www.kff.org/policy-watch...

Demand for 988 Continues to Grow at Third Anniversary | KFF

This policy watch examines 988 on its third anniversary, drawing from the latest Lifeline data available through May 2025 and suicide death data from CDC WONDER for the period 2013 to 2023. 988 receiv...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jul 17

Here is the full letter Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, sent to colleagues: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Jul 13

An incredibly sobering must-read piece by @peopledoctor.bsky.social in @newyorker.com on how the OBBA will impact children, especially those who get seriously ill, through Medicaid cuts, diminishing one of America's most important anti-poverty programs www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Sick Children Will Be Among the Victims of Trump’s Big Bill

Cuts to federal health-care spending make it harder for doctors to make the oldest promise in medicine: that we will do no harm.

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Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Trump’s law doesn’t protect Medicaid. It requires Americans to spend hundreds of millions of hours a year filling out tedious, unnecessary paperwork. It will cause millions to lose their health coverage, limiting access to care and forcing them into debt.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Annoying People to Death

Why the Medicaid work requirement is a terrible idea

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