Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦🥼🔬🧬🧪💉
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Professor @Pennmedicine We create #CellTherapy #Genetherapy - @TmunityTx & @CapstanTx CoFounder, Past President @ISCTGlobal, @PNASNexus AE
#Breaking: A federal judge in Boston stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S., saying the Trump administration had likely violated the law. statnews.com/2026/03/16/ken…
“One of the dumbest things the current FDA is doing is killing this system.” - @matthewherper, STAT, who’s covered FDA for 25 years. open.substack.com/pub/garyschwit…
85 people have paid the $100,000 H-1B fee so far, totaling $8.5 million in revenue. But fee revenue from H-1B apps abroad is down $28 million. So the fee — justified by a paper claiming the revenue-maximizing fee was >$100,000! — appears to have lost the government $20 million.
The MIT professor who has been appointed by Robert F Kennedy Jr to review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research on the topic, according to more than a dozen scientists and public health experts. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
$SAVA Cassava Sciences Announces Name Change to Filana Therapeutics. New Ticker $FLNA
SCOOP: The FDA has said that it will consider authorizing e-cigarettes in flavors that appeal to adults -- coffees, teas, spices and mint. That would mean more authorized options beyond illicit sweet vapes. Public health officials are not pleased. nytimes.com/2026/03/09/hea…
ICYMI - A senior FDA official on a press call attacked an experimental treatment for a rare disease. An HHS official later told me the company behind the treatment, Uniqure, "lied." Gift link below
The FDA is already under fire from lawmakers for recent delays and rejections of new drugs for rare diseases. on.wsj.com/4aVz9jy
Sham surgery involves both an incision in the skin around the skull and the drilling of “partial burr holes” that are 2 millimeters deep — not far enough to puncture the bone. The real issue, however, is the anesthesia. In order to simulate the real surgery and protect the blind of the clinical trial, participants randomized to sham surgery are put under general anesthesia for 10-12 hours.
