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Breaking: White House delays CDC pick. Duties of CDC Director fall to NIH director Jay Bhattacharya, who has been acting cdc director. Me @rachel_roubein @ddiamond
washingtonpost.com/health/2026/03…
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Laura Helbling
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Laura Helbling
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Director of Research at Prevision Policy; Senior Writer for The RPM Report Covering pharma and biotech regulation and policy.
Washington, DC Katılım Temmuz 2008
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Its not just that these aren't the lowest prices anywhere...many companies seem to be strategically only offering "deals" on products where they've abused the system to keep cheaper competitors off market for decades. managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/study-man…
The White House@WhiteHouse
TrumpRx is adding a plethora of new prescription drugs at the lowest prices anywhere in the world. GSK and Amgen are two major pharmaceutical companies adding drugs at Most-Favored-Nation pricing, helping AMERICANS save more money on medications.
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Amy Abernethy, Co-Founder of Highlander Health, will join Michael McCaughan of Prevision Policy for a Fireside Chat at our upcoming “Application of ECAs in Oncology Drug Development" meeting on April 7. Register today to join in-person or virtually: bit.ly/3LUNS4r.
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One year (and change) into @SecKennedy tenure at HHS a lot has changed in the federal approach to immunization. @drJoshS and I break it down.
The 4 Pillars of Childhood Vaccine Policy—1 Year Later jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…
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It’s interesting that @US_FDA chose to redact the entire “path forward” section of the memo. Also, where are the underlining data and any an analyses performed by FDA staff? It’s so irresponsible of @DrMakaryFDA not to put that information into the public. Radical transparency.
Zach Brennan@ZacharyBrennan
FDA on Friday released Prasad's memo to staff re: Covid vaccines and children fda.gov/media/191442/d…
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More than 3 months after it was publicly reported, too. Strange timing and a reminder that the fatality data still aren't available.
(The full memo, available via BioCentury: biocentury.com/article/657740…)
Zach Brennan@ZacharyBrennan
FDA on Friday released Prasad's memo to staff re: Covid vaccines and children fda.gov/media/191442/d…
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Feels like that ship sailed but love the connection. Maybe Janet Woodcock returns in caretaker mode to where it all started!
Adam Feuerstein ✡️@adamfeuerstein
Re: Prasad, from this morning's @statnews Readout newsletter: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is in Miami this week speaking to health care investors attending a slew of broker conferences, noted Mizuho health care strategist Jared Holz. That should make for some interesting, perhaps awkward, conversations. It took about 15 seconds for former FDA official Rick Pazdur’s name to rise to the top of the list of potential Prasad replacements. Whether that’s wishful thinking or a real possibility remains to be seen, but Pazdur is also in Miami. He spoke to an overflow room of investors on Sunday night at the Leerink Partners health care conference, sounding very much like a guy whose long, distinguished FDA career was interrupted, but not finished.
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The FDA commissioner & his CBER director are breaking the law. Under GOP gavels, the Energy & Commerce Committee has done nothing to stop it. The simple first step is a hearing.
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On Prasad’s last few weeks as CBER chief:
1. It was absurdly inappropriate to bring a large group of reporters together and rail on a pending application “on background”
2. The walk back of the Moderna RTF was a bad unforced error. He could’ve just overruled staff again, following a review
3. Fingers crossed he comes back to Twitter
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This 'senior official' was Vinay Prasad. Disclosing trade secret information without legal authorization is a prohibited act under the FDCA & a criminal violation under the Trade Secrets Act.
Liz Essley Whyte@l_e_whyte
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
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Hint: You might learn something more about the "senior FDA official" in this $QURE piece.
statnews.com/2026/03/06/fda…
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@docrodwong @AppleHelix Adcomms aren’t perfect, but having covered them since Vioxx, they can come pretty close.
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Remarkable!
Angelica Peebles@angelicapeebles
A senior FDA official hosted a call with reporters to respond to outcry over the FDA's request that UniQure conduct another trial before reviewing its gene therapy for Huntington's disease and had some choice words about the treatment and the company cnbc.com/2026/03/05/fda…
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Impt thread that describes the real world challenges of this new vaccine schedule—challenges that @hhs didn’t consider in their closed door process —at least they aren’t referenced in any of the docs released today. Sad.
Jake Scott, MD@jakescottMD
1/ HHS just announced the most significant rollback of childhood vaccine recommendations in modern American history. Seven vaccines that have protected American children for decades are being moved to “shared clinical decision-making,” a category that sounds reasonable but functionally ensures millions of children won’t receive them. statnews.com/2025/01/06/tru…
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As a doctor who treated patients for decades, my top priority is protecting children and families. Multiple children have died or were hospitalized from measles, and South Carolina continues to face a growing outbreak. Two children have died in my state from whooping cough. All of this was preventable with safe and effective vaccines.
The vaccine schedule IS NOT A MANDATE. It’s a recommendation giving parents the power. Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors, and will make America sicker.
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Bill Cassidy — who voted to confirm RFK Jr — says his move to roll back vaccine recommendations “will make America sicker.”
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.@SenBillCassidy
As a doctor who treated patients for decades, my top priority is protecting children and families. Multiple children have died or were hospitalized from measles, and South Carolina continues to face a growing outbreak. Two children have died in my state from whooping cough. All of this was preventable with safe and effective vaccines. The vaccine schedule IS NOT A MANDATE. It’s a recommendation giving parents the power. Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors, and will make America sicker.
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FDA appears to have named Angelo de Claro as the new Acting Director of its Oncology Center of Excellence.
Marks the first time the center has ever been led by anyone other than Rick Pazdur.
It's still not clear if de Claro will lead it long term.
fda.gov/about-fda/fda-…
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Senator Cassidy is right
The CDC director should ignore the vote of the discredited ACIP and leave the vaccine schedule for Hep B unchanged
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.@SenBillCassidy
As a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective. The birth dose is a recommendation, NOT a mandate. Before the birth dose was recommended, 20,000 newborns a year were infected with hepatitis B. Now, it’s fewer than 20. Ending the recommendation for newborns makes it more likely the number of cases will begin to increase again. This makes America sicker. Acting CDC Director O’Neill should not sign these new recommendations and instead retain the current, evidence-based approach.
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