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"One FDA employee’s assigned work station turned out to be a storage closet in a district courthouse. They were told last week not to mind the noise upstairs. It was just the U.S. Marshals Service checking in on people in jail cells."

@STAT's #FDA reporter Lizzy Lawrence on return-to-office problems at the FDA:

statnews.com/2025/03/17/fda-fe

STAT · Return-to-office mandates pose the latest challenge to morale at the FDADepartures of key staff from the FDA could lead to delays in inspections and product approvals.
#WFH#RTO#health

You have agency. Use it.

When you don’t speak up for yourself, your community, your audience and the truth — someone else will. We know how that has gone."

Thank you to E&P for the recognition and to their staff, Mike and Robin Blinder, for publishing my full response, which you can read below. I deeply appreciate the nominations from our Managing Editor Rhysea Agrawal and friend Emily Sachar. We got more work to do!

"In the words of historian Timothy Snyder, 'Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.'

"You don’t have to be a stenographer for the wealthy and powerful."

This month, I was honored to be selected to the Editor & Publisher (E&P) Magazine 2025 Tomorrow's News Trailblazers for my work at @thexylom.

I was asked for a lesson I’ve learned early in my career that I think future news trailblazers should know. I have some strong thoughts, considering my upbringing in Hong Kong and current events stateside:

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"National Institutes of #Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to #mRNA vaccine #technology from their grant applications... in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical #research...

#Scientists relayed their experiences on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retaliation by the #Trump administration...

“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started”"
kffhealthnews.org/news/article

I don't know why the #Trump administration has decided that #mRNA research is suddenly "bad" when it has proven so very useful and effective in prevention and treatment of #disease. As Kevin Collins says:

"Scientists have just cured pancreatic #cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer."
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Indirect links between climate change and tuberculosis, both of which impact developing countries most, are beginning to gain attention
Modelling studies and reviews are pointing to tuberculosis as a climate-sensitive infection
Experts say people at risk due to climate change and tuberculosis are among the most vulnerable sections of society in both the Global South and North

india.mongabay.com/2025/03/inc

Mongabay-India · Increasing pointers to climate change indirectly impacting tuberculosis riseIndirect links between climate change and tuberculosis, both of which impact developing countries most, are beginning to gain attention.

A recent review revealed that climate change has the potential to aggravate almost 60% of known human pathogens.

Warming effects, changes in precipitation levels and floods are the most prominent climate hazards that stimulate vector-borne, waterborne and airborne diseases,

mg.co.za/the-green-guardian/20

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The Mail & Guardian · Climate change and infectious diseases: A looming global health crisisHow extreme weather events are amplifying disease risks across the globe

Burden of cardiovascular disease caused by extreme heat in Australia projected to more than double by 2050

Hot weather is responsible for an average of almost 50,000 years of healthy life lost to cardiovascular disease every year among people in Australia, according to research published in the European Heart Journal. This equates to around 7.3% of the total burden due to illness and death from cardiovascular disease

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03

Medical Xpress · Burden of cardiovascular disease caused by extreme heat in Australia projected to more than double by 2050By European Society of Cardiology

One of us who works at the tech desk may have eaten five pieces of pizza last night — without any awareness of the total calories. It might have been a good opportunity to use Cal AI, an app where users can upload a photo of their meal and receive a calorie count that has a purported 90% accuracy. Cal AI isn’t the first digital calorie counter, but it has a 4.8-star rating on the Apple App Store and over 1 million downloads on Google Play. @Techcrunch has more on this app developed by a pair of teenagers.

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TechCrunch · Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers | TechCrunchCal AI has generated over 5 million downloads in 8 months, it says. Founders Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack are just 18.
#Tech#Apps#AI