The decision will likely trigger a deluge of lawsuits seeking to amend, curtail, or end any number of rules promulgated by federal health agencies—particularly FDA and CMS—based on subject-matter expertise where the law is ambiguous. #ChevronDeference cancerletter.com/judiciary/2024…

News: NIH and FDA leaders call for innovation in development of smoking cessation treatments nih.gov/news-events/ne…

A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient-relevant outcomes in comprehensive cancer centers versus noncomprehensive cancer centers Out in Cancer by ACS This systematic review compares patient-relevant outcomes between comprehensive cancer centers (CCCs) and non-CCCs.

An NIH-supported study found that older adults who ate a diet rich in leafy greens and other vegetables, fish, beans, and whole grain were less likely to have problems with thinking and memory. bit.ly/3BtCXJB

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

📣 ICYMI: We've launched Direct to CANCER, an expedited review process for potentially practice-changing manuscripts that were rejected after peer review by high-impact journals for reasons of scope or priority. Learn more: acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… OncoAlert #WorldCancerDay

Your paper on bias in difference in difference estimates has triggered an investigation. The governor’s office wants to make sure this isn’t promoting DEI.

I’m sorry, but there is no category to place “performative tweeting” in your annual report.

A good summary of yesterday’s faculty testimony against SB 37’s overregulation of Faculty Senates, university curriculum committees, and hiring committees. Several faculty raised arguments about shared governance, due process, and academic freedom, the cornerstones of @aaup. ⬇️

In order to keep $400 million in funding, much if it going to the School of Medicine & School of Public Health for medical and public health research, agrees to ban masks, which are an important medical and public health tool. I just…

Breast cancer activists in the 90s got DOD to fund cancer research—now that program has been gutted cancerletter.com/in-the-archive…

Proposed cuts are particularly dramatic at NIH—NCI, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, would remain intact, structurally, while NINR, NCCIH, FIC, and NIMHHD would be eliminated. cancerletter.com/the-cancer-let…

Starting today, NIH will undertake a comprehensive review of all policies and practices within its Intramural Research Program to establish academic freedom as the rule & not the exception. Read more from NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: nih.gov/about-nih/who-…

“Stability is a key aspect of the American formula, because it allows scientists to focus their work, knowing that they will have the support they need to pursue and test their ideas from start to finish,” Sen. Susan Collins said. cancerletter.com/capitol-hill/2…

Four CDC buildings shot up. Employees under lockdown and in fear for hours. Public health is physically under attack, and the silence from the administration is deafening.