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  • 3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

    If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone. And if you’ve ever been injected with a sterile drug that helped heal you instead of killing you, you have relied on the services of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Manufacturing Quality, where Pohlhaus worked for 15 years and was a senior policy advisor. Pohlhaus was one of the FDA’s few leading experts on sterile manufacturing for drugs.

  • 1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

    In the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, China, a bitter international debate has raged among scientists, politicians, and journalists over the virus’s origin and who is to blame for the more than 7 million deaths it’s caused worldwide. It’s a debate in which legitimate scientific arguments vie for attention with partisan attacks and wild conspiracy theories.

  • 1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

    Late last week, amid mass purges of key personnel at the nation’s health agencies, a Florida attorney with a surprisingly slim résumé was named acting deputy commissioner for human foods at the Food and Drug Administration. The role, which is not subject to Senate approval, is an important one. In it, Kyle Diamantas, 37, will be responsible for ensuring the safety of roughly 80% of the nation’s food supply.

  • 2 months ago | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

    One month ago, then President-elect Donald Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an ardent vaccine critic and his nominee to become the nation’s health secretary, would be “much less radical than you would think.” But the new administration’s first round of health policy moves have alarmed physicians and public health experts on both sides of the aisle.

  • Dec 12, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

    The accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was carrying a three-page manifesto when he was captured Monday afternoon at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. An Ivy League graduate with a masters degree in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Luigi Mangione, 26, suffered from crippling back pain for which he had undergone spinal surgery.

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20 Apr 25

RT @acnewsitics: If Hegseth worked at KFC and shared the 11 secret herbs and spices with his brother, he’d be fired already.

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20 Apr 25

RT @CitizenCohn: “Eliminating the Medicaid expansion would likely precipitate the biggest one-time increase in the number of people uninsur…

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17 Apr 25

RT @MacFarlaneNews: Striking language just now from appeals court, rejecting Justice Dept argument to pause court order in Kilmar Abrego Ga…