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Reassessing COVID-19 Origins: Lab Leak Gains Ground, but Alternatives Persist, Is there a Cover-up? The New York Times reports a shift in the C.I.A.’s stance on the origins of COVID-19, with analysts now favoring the lab leak hypothesis. This pivot, led by newly appointed Director John Ratclif...

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www.trialsitenews.com/a/fdas-remov... FDA's Removal of Diversity Guidelines Raises Concerns for Clinical Trial Equity

Trial Against Merck for Injuries Associated with Gardasil, HPV Vaccine Commences in Los Angeles  A trial began on January 22, 2025, in Los Angeles, where a woman is suing Merck, alleging that the Gardasil HPV vaccine caused her to develop an autoimmune disorder, postural orthostatic tachyca...

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Dapagliflozin & Caloric Restriction and Type 2 Diabetes Remission In a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial led by Yuejun Liu from Zhongshan Hospital, China, the effects of dapagliflozin in combination with calorie restriction were tested ...

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Robust Immunogenicity, Safety Questions with Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents In the recent study, "Safety and Immunogenicity of an mRNA-1273 Vaccine Booster in Adolescents" by Figueroa et al., published in Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics on January 21, 2025, Moderna au...

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Misinterpreting MIS-C: A Critical Review of Yet More Substack Claims In her recent Substack entry, Jessica Rose, a prominent scientist in the medical freedom movement argues that multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is simply Kawasaki disease by anothe...

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Eliminates COVID-19 Vax Requirement In a significant policy shift effective January 22, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has eliminated the requirement for adjustment of status applicants to provide proof of COVID...

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Merck Inks Deal with Chinese Biotech for Anti-PD-1/VEGF Bispecific Antibody--$588m Upfront & Up to $2.7b Merck (NYSE: MRK) has finalized a major global license agreement with Shanghai, China-based LaNova Medicines Ltd. for LM-299, a novel investigational bispecific antibody targeting both programmed cell...

Merck Inks Deal with Chinese Biotech for Anti-PD-1/VEGF Bispecific Antibody--$588m Upfront & Up to $2.7b www.trialsitenews.com/a/merck-inks...

RFK Jr.'s Financial Disclosures: Hypocrisy or Misinterpretation? In a Vigilant Fox article, Dallas Ludlum critiques Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr.'s public opposition to mRNA vaccines while revealing his private investments in companies involved in genetic innovation,...

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Trump to Big Pharma on Day One--Reverses Drug Pricing & Sparks Outrage Amid U.S. Healthcare Crisis In a stunning Day-One move, President Donald Trump signed an executive order rescinding a Biden-era directive aimed at lowering prescription drug costs, leaving Americans questioning the administratio...

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RFK Jr.'s Financial Ties to Vaccine Litigation Spark Controversy Amid HHS Nomination Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the incoming Trump administration, now faces scrutiny over his financial interests in vaccine litigatio...

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Trump’s NIH Freeze Sparks Uncertainty, Fear, and Operational Chaos Meredith Wadman and Jocelyn Kaiser in Science report that the Trump administration's abrupt directives targeting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have plunged the agency into a state of confusi...

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Senator Bernie Sanders Holds Roundtable on Vaccines: Preparing to Take on RFK Jr? Today, January 22, Senator Bernie Sanders held a 90-minute roundtable discussion, bringing together experts and US senators to talk about vaccines and public health. A stated goal was to confront risi...

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Senate to Hold Nomination Hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary: Starts January 29, 2025 On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, led by Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), will convene a hearing to consider Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr.'s nomination as Secretary of the Department...

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Trump Orders Communication Blackout at Federal Health Agencies: Implications and Concerns A communications blackout has been imposed on U.S. federal health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes o...

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Sweden-Based Study Paves Way for Tailored Immunotherapies Targeting Pediatric Cancers A groundbreaking study led by Professor Petter Brodin of the Karolinska Institutet and Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Sweden explores how children’s immune systems react to cancer,...

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A Monumental AI Investment: Promise and Pitfalls of the Stargate Initiative—the Prospects of Vast Economic Waste The Stargate partnership’s ambitious $500 billion investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure represents a seismic shift in technological advancement and economic ambition. Billed ...

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Antibody Responses to mRNA COVID-19 Vax in Nursing Home Residents—Significant Waning Starting Week #2 The study, spearheaded by clinical research coordinator Dr. Alexandra N. Paxitzis, Jürgen Bosch, Ph.D., and the team at Case Western Reserve, University School of Medicine and collaborators evalu...

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Receipt of BNT162b2 KP.2 Vaccine and COVID-19 CVS MinuteClinic Visits in US Adults The study titled "Receipt of BNT162b2 KP.2 Vaccine and COVID-19 CVS MinuteClinic Visits in US Adults," led by Dr. Abby E. Rudolph, investigates the impact of the BNT162b2 KP.2 vaccine on the frequency...

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Angelique Herbert: Acting Deputy Commissioners for Operations and Chief Operating Officer - Office of Operations, FDA Angelique A. Hebert currently serves as the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), bringing over 25 years of federal mana...

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50% of Northeast Adult Ticks Carry Lyme Disease A Dartmouth study published in Parasites & Vectors reveals that 50% of adult blacklegged ticks and 25% of nymph ticks in the Northeast carry Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria causing Lyme disease...

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Gaps in Mental Healthcare-Seeking Among U.S. Healthcare Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Dr. Anthony Papa of the University of Hawaii, alongside co-authors from Columbia University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), led a study investigating mental health care-seeki...

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New Biomaterial Could Help Treat CNS Injuries and Neurodegenerative Diseases Scientists at the University of Bath and Keele University have developed a new composite material to act as a scaffold for neural stem cells, offering hope for new treatments for central nervous syste...

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Stanford Researchers Develop Cream-Based Vaccine Using Skin Bacteria Stanford University scientists have domesticated Staphylococcus epidermidis, a harmless skin-colonizing bacteria, creating a topical vaccine that protected mice against tetanus in the lab. T...

Stanford Researchers Develop Cream-Based Vaccine Using Skin Bacteria
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WUSL Grant Will Fund Development of Vaccines to Prevent Dementia Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have been awarded a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to s...

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New Device Could Offer Affordable Option for Tinnitus Diagnosis and Management In a paper recently published in the International Journal of Clinical Skills, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) describe an innovative and cost-effective device for the...

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Protein Activates Dormant Genes, Marking Advancement Towards Regenerative Heart Therapies Damaged mouse hearts were successfully repaired using a protein from zebrafish, according to researchers from the Bakkers group at the Hubrecht Institute. The findings, published in Nature Card...

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University of Pittsburgh Develops Nasal Swab That Can Diagnose Asthma Subtypes in Children University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a nasal swab test for children that can diagnose specific asthma subtypes (endotypes). This non-invasive method could offer medical professionals a ...

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Colossal Biosciences: Reviving the Woolly Mammoth and Pioneering De-Extinction Colossal Biosciences founded in 2021 and co-founded by entrepreneur Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church, most recently makes the headlines with its ambitious goal to resurrect extinct species like t...

Will We See the Woolly Mammoth Once Again?
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OIG Review Highlights Concerns in FDA’s Accelerated Approval Pathway A brand new Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report raises concerns about how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has utilized its accelerated approval pathway...

OIG Review Highlights Concerns in FDA’s Accelerated Approval Pathway

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