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On Kamala Harris's #homecare proposal, U-M IHPI shares helpful, timely polls, which reminds me of Allison Hoffman's piece on health insecurity and the risk of becoming responsible for someone else’s care—the “next-friend” risk stemming from long-term disabilities and illness.

Países Miembros de la OPS aprueban el desarrollo de una nueva Política Regional para ampliar el acceso equitativo a tecnologías sanitarias de alto costo y precio. El proceso de diseño y consulta empezará en Noviembre del 2024. paho.org/es/noticias/9-…

Reading U.S. FDA's briefing doc ahead of the #AdComm yesterday, one would've thought this was a straightforward vote against approval given multiple clinical trials failing to demonstrate efficacy. Many of the votes seem driven by wanting to offer anything even if it doesn't work.

NEW: I have a paper in JAMA Health Forum with Eli Adashi @cohenprof describing FDA’s new regulation over lab tests. Lab tests inform ~70% of clinical decisions, yet FDA left these many of tests unregulated for decades. FDA is finally trying to address this gap. (1/12)

“Taking U.S. law regarding pregnancy and breastfeeding as an entry point, the authors suggest changes in existing legislation and workplace policies that would incorporate menopause as well.” Can’t be more excited about Hot Flashes book, exploring connections among law, #gender,

Great opportunities to get involved with the ISP! Apply for our 2025-26 roles: 1⃣ Resident Fellowship 2⃣ The Majority World Initiative (MWI) 3⃣ Wikimedia Initiative On Intermediaries and Information (WII) Deadline for applications: Dec 18! law.yale.edu/isp/join-us#he…

🔎 How do we balance rapid medical device innovation w/patient safety? Our recent Annals of Int Med paper, led by Kushal Kadakia, explores U.S. FDA’s latest reforms to 510(k) process, offering insights on future of med device regulation. Yale School of Medicine #MedTech #Regulation acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

Biotech finds its next gold rush in autoimmune disease treatments… by way of repurposing manufacturing capacity, once again at it finest. Definitely not a problem to be “solved”with patent incentives. statnews.com/2024/10/14/bio…

From modest beginnings some 50 years ago, the clinical program at Yale Law School has gone on to change the world. #yls200 law.yale.edu/yls-today/news…

Congratulations, Doron!! Superb news!! (congratulations Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics!)

trademark experts: opinions, pls 😅

For the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month, I wrote a more personal reflection in the form of a letter to a Latino public servant.

Washington has its first probable bird flu cases: Four poultry workers hired at a farm with an H5N1 outbreak. The cases await confirmation at the CDC (bc that's apparently still the testing protocol 7 months into the outbreak 🙃) doh.wa.gov/newsroom/first….

Today Alejandro Toledo could become the first president sentenced in the Peruvian #LavaJato. He faces up to 20+ years in prison for allegedly accepting $35 million in bribes from #Odebrecht. I have been researching this #corruption scandal extensively, so a short 🧵

Not only tech surveillance but the real world is sending hints about my next research project: *organizational citizens* advocating for better healthcare. *Unionized patients* playing a meta-role in organ transplantation? New empirical research is in the works!

CFP: Revisiting Biomedicalization: Toward a Technology Focused Approach, conference at Yale Feb 28-Mar 1. If you do research on health technologies, submit an extended abstract by the end of the week! Email me with any questions! Details and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Excited about this💥👌🏽and “new normal” lineup of health law speakers!

Call for teaching Latin American Political Economy UCL UCL Americas

Excited to share that my new research project, Unionized Scientists as Democratic Organizational Citizens, has been awarded the ISPS Democratic Innovations Research Funding Award by the Yale ISPS Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. I'm humbly thrilled