Sandhya Raman

If anyone sees a gold and opal ring outside/in the Capitol, it’s mine :(

HHS announces it plans to reorganize its Office of Civil Rights news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Scoop: The FDA's new top food official will be Donald Prater, who sources tell me has been selected to replace Kyle Diamantas as acting deputy commissioner for food. Prater previously led the agency’s food mission in an acting capacity from 2023 to 2024. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Tomorrow is the deadline for public comment on a proposal for CDC to add medical codes for Covid-19 vaccine injury. I take a look into what that would entail and what it could mean. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Disability insurers and the doctors they hire to review claims have a history of courts overturning their denials. Alexia Fernández Campbell and I read hundreds of opinions naming doctors who are now being tapped to review claims from Long COVID patients. aboutblaw.com/blIr

Scoop: SAMHSA will take down its website for locating providers that can prescribe buprenorphine for treating opioid use disorder next month. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

And if you need a recap from earlier in the week here's that story again: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and… Story here

New this morning: I took a deeper look into the FDA's proposed changes to changing "gender" to "sex" across its regs. Experts highlighted it could impact drug trials, tobacco policy and more🧵

The Endocrine Society and WPATH had challenged the FTC's civil investigative demand earlier this year. news.bloomberglaw.com/corporate-gove…

Judge Boasberg temporarily paused FTC probes into 2 transgender health provider groups yesterday

My deep dive on the younger Dem candidates who are challenging DeGette & Thompson for their seats, just as the two lawmakers are poised to take health subcommittee chairs for E&C and Ways if Dems flip the House. Imp. races that will have implications for health policy next year.

On this week's #WTHealth pod: Abortion pill politics are back. Plus what's up at the FDA, and getting patients off SSRI's. W/@shefalil, @SandhyaWrites, and @jessiehellmann. kffhealthnews.org/podcast/what-t…

Another change, the now missing CDC page of jurisdictions that are experiencing increased Hep or HIV infections, a funding exception which allows them to support syringe exchange programs.

Sharing from yesterday: SAMHSA's latest harm reduction guidance is confusing individuals who work in this space given conflicting views in two federal laws signed by the president and the new drug control strategy plan.

Story here: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

From this morning: FDA is proposing to remove or substitute all references to "gender" with "sex" in its regs to align with a Trump EO

and ICYMI here's yesterday's story from the event news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Now up at today’s MAHA Institute event, Sec Kennedy