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President Joe Biden’s Visit To Emergent BioSolutions’ Baltimore Lab Canceled https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2021/03/08/president-joe-bidens-visit-to-emergent-biosolutions-baltimore-lab-canceled/By Mike HellgrenMarch 8, 2021  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The White House abruptly cancelled President Joe Biden’s first visit to Baltimore since taking office. Mr. Biden was scheduled to travel to Baltimore City on Wednesday to meet with executives from Merck and Johnson & Johnson and tour Emergent…

From the BMJ blog comes this gratifying discussion of an important paper in the PLOS: … an important and fascinating paper in PloS Medicine shows how editors can be exposed to dramatic conflicts of interest.  The paper is suitably po faced, as is the accompanying editorial, but, as a blogger and ex-editor, I can spell out…

This is a very long piece, but it needs to be said and all the points are important.  The US’ record on Human Rights is pitiful, and our commitment to our international  obligations doubly so.  From Truthout: (Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t) While President Obama told the country to…

David Harris of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that in light of questions about the FBI’s public identification of the late Dr. Bruce Ivins as “the only person responsible” for the 2001 anthrax attacks, Congress should demand an independent investigation to test the government’s evidence of its accusatory claim.

Here is the GAO report released today, two years in the making, a study done for unnamed “congressional requesters.” In past years, the requesters have been listed, but in this case, they are not. This most likely reflects the sensitivity of this matter. Why so sensitive? Because the FBI botched its investigation, never had even…

PHARMACOVIGILANCE:  the practice of monitoring the effects of medical drugs after they have been licensed for use, especially in order to identify and evaluate previously unreported adverse reactions. Pages 34-35 of the FDA review of Pfizer’s data for the 5-11 year olds provides the pretense of truly caring about identifying and quantifying adverse events from…