Horrifying news out of Emory University & CDC headquarters today, where a police officer has been shot and killed. My prayers are with the families & the Atlanta community.

#NIH director Jay Bhattacharya says the #BARDA mRNA contracts were terminated because the platform isn't viable because people don't trust it. Experts question some of the claims Bhattacharya made. statnews.com/2025/08/11/mrn…

New: A company that has Donald Trump Jr. on its board debuted a new service to help pharmaceutical companies launch direct sales platforms, one week after President Donald Trump demanded that drugmakers create similar systems. (Gift link) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New: Mars, the maker of M&Ms and Skittles, quietly announced plans to launch versions of four of its candies without synthetic food dyes. w/ Kristina L. Peterson bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Watch this space: Wearable company Whoop said it will not comply with the FDA's demand to disable its blood pressure tracking tool. The agency said its fitness band isn't certified as a medical device. Scoop via Samantha Murphy Kelly bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Eli Lilly raised prices in the UK for its obesity drug Mounjaro after President Trump pressured pharma companies to lower prices for Americans and raise them abroad. via Ashleigh Furlong bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The best story on the HHS announcement about restarting a vaccine safety task force is this gem from Sarah Owermohle and Rachel Cohrs Zhang from February. statnews.com/2025/02/11/rfk…

The swamp is in full panic mode. DC lobby shops are laboring fiercely to drive a wedge between President Trump and me, hoping to thwart our team from dismantling the status quo and advancing President Donald J. Trump’ Make America Healthy Again agenda. They’re pushing the flat-out lie that I’m

Visited the Welch’s Fruit Snacks factory in New Jersey with Julia Press for this one! The process of switching to natural dyes was complicated — the raspberry alone took about 50 tries.

Conflicts of interest for HHS vaccine panels hit record lows before RFK Jr took over as the top health secretary. Kennedy has repeatedly said he wants to "clean out" corruption and fired the CDC's panel over supposed conflicts. Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Texas has declared the measles outbreak over after no new infections since July. The state has recorded 762 infections since Jan, a surge that sent the US to the highest infections in 3 decades. The state will continue to track infections. Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The American Academy of Pediatrics broke with the federal government and recommended all children get the Covid vaccine Tuesday. AAP has released vaccine guidelines since the 1930s. Gift link for Bloomberg : bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

And Jim O'Neill - Current HHS Deputy Secretary - is in as the acting director of the CDC. The move comes a day after the director Susan Monarez was fired by the Trump admin. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New: The Trump administration announced plans to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose more side effects in television ads and crack down on ads for medicines on social media. w/ Madison Muller (gift link) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Epstein emails obtained by Bloomberg also includes an accountant's spreadsheet itemizing nearly 2,000 gifts, luxury items and payments totaling $1.8M, with notations indicating they were intended for Epstein’s friends, business associates and victims. 1/

New: Top FDA regulator Vinay Prasad has returned to his role as chief medical and scientific officer at the agency in addition to leading CBER bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

George Tidmarsh, the head of the FDA's drug regulation division, said at a meeting that he would like to minimize the use of the FDA's advisory committees of outside experts, according to KFF investigative reporter Arthur Allen. I've written about these committees for 20

SCOOP: Trump health officials plan to link covid vax to deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting which Americans should get the shots. Finding appears to come from safety database not designed to assess causality. W Rachel Roubein Dan Diamond washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09…

Scoop via Jessica Nix: CDC intends to fund a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute study examining links between vaccines and autism bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SCOOP: The CDC intends to fund a study on the links between vaccines and autism, a disproven theory. More here for Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…