Flawed Report Aims to Undercut Established Research on Abortion Pill Safety, Plus How a Federal Initiative to Study Autism May Overemphasize Environmental Toxins — The Monitor

This volume highlights how a report criticized for flawed methodology is influencing renewed efforts to restrict access to mifepristone; a federal plan to study the causes of autism that could be contributing to stigma by over-emphasizing environmental toxins; and the resurgence of false claims about fetal tissue in vaccines.

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Bristol Myers Squibb Is Paying $350M to Expand Its Reach in Radiopharmaceuticals to Prostate Cancer

Bristol Myers Squibb is licensing global rights to a Philochem program in development for both diagnostic imaging and targeted treatment of prostate cancer. It follows the pharma giant’s entry into radiopharmaceuticals via the $4.1 billion acquisition of RayzeBio last year. The post Bristol Myers Squibb Is Paying $350M to Expand Its Reach in Radiopharmaceuticals to…

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‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’

The letter is an extraordinary rebuke of the Trump administration’s actions against the NIH, which include: terminating hundreds of grants funding scientific and biomedical research; firing more than 1,000 employees this year; and moving to end billions in funds to partner institutions overseas. The post ‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the…

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