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Catherine Feore
@catherinefeore.bsky.social
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Founder www.vitalsigns.news
Brussels-based journalist. working mostly on health - but occasionally other questions.
[email protected] @HealthHubEditor on X
Vice President Association de la Presse Internationale @apibrussels over at x
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catherinefeore.bsky.social
This will be disappointing for Novo, I guess we can't expect GLP-1s to cure every ill. Nevertheless, worth investigating.

"Novo Nordisk A/S: Evoke phase 3 trials did not demonstrate a statistically significant reduction in Alzheimer's disease progression"
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Armenia will host the next Conference of the Parties COP12 and MOP on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Not the Eurovision Song Contest bit where we see Armenia, apparently there's a lot of wild camping. Not sure about those open fires in forests, thinking COP30...
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Who wouldn’t want to suppress research that shows you in a bad light.
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Plasma injections from teenagers. Dunno, might keep me younger, but I’ll give it a pass.
maxkozlov.bsky.social Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 4d
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by Catherine Feore
stevepeers.bsky.social
EU Commission spokesperson on tech. The difficulty here is that the Commission sent X a provisional finding of breach of the Digital Services Act 16 months ago, and has done nothing since. So why take this expression of concern seriously?
thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu Thomas REGNIER @thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu · 5d
Grok’s antisemitic output is appalling.

It goes against Europe’s fundamental rights and values.

The DSA is clear: hate speech has no place online in Europe.

We already took action on GPAI risks, including X’s chatbot in March.

We are in touch with X: the company must act on its chatbots risks.
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Such a Brussels way of thinking about the world.
Of course, ‘roadmaps’ are necessary, but the roadmap as evidence of being serious? Serious intent, yes.
Not scepticism or cynicism, but have seen roadmaps come and go with various levels of application. The proof of seriousness is in delivery. And…
teresaribera.ec.europa.eu Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 5d
If we are serious on phasing out (transitioning away) from fossil fuels and to x2 energy eficiency goals and x3 renewable energy we’d better count on a good roadmap.
Best wishes to climate negotiators.
We count on you and on our collective coherent action back home!!
lemonde.fr Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 5d
COP30 : la France et une trentaine d’autres pays annoncent qu’ils ne signeront pas d’accord n’incluant pas une « feuille de route » pour la sortie des énergies fossiles
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
While skimming through the full reports of the Covid Inquiry a link took me to the then UK Chief Scientific Adviser's contemporaneous notes. This is a beautifully succinct and damning summary of the problems with the Great Barrington Declaration.
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Better late than never I guess, but most countries completed their Covid inquiries some time ago.
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‘Too little, too late’ - the UK concludes the second part of its Covid inquiry
The UK’s report on the Covid inquiry could has emerged with 19 recommendations to guide government thinking
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November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Reminder that in Belgium - at least - it is very easy to get your vaccines, just pop in to the pharmacy and make an appointment

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ECDC urges immediate uptake of flu vaccination
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is calling for immediate influenza vaccination as EU/EEA countries report an unusually early rise in flu cases
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November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
The European Parliament will be working its way through hundreds of amendments on the Critical Medicines Act. MEP Tomislav Sokol says the parliament will likely insist on stronger criteria to ensure Europe's strategic autonomy in critical medicines.

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Urgent action needed to stem critical medicine shortages
Medicines for Europe says study highlights the need for reforms to secure patient access to medicines
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November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Evidence schmevidence. RFK has turned the scientific method on its head. Don't ask a question, have an answer, then try to find evidence to support your view. A fraudulent study from 1998. Not a problem. #GoldStandardScience
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Somebody needed to do this! Working as a breakfast waitress in a hotel in central London (about 100 years ago), the disappearance of teaspoons was a major problem. What I've always wondered about is where they go?
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
The EU/EEA is off track in meeting four of its five antimicrobial resistance targets.
#WAAW #AntimicrobialResistance #AntimicrobialResistanceAwarenessWeek
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Europe not on track to meet four of five AMR targets
New data from the ECDC shows the threat of antimicrobial resistance, known as ‘the silent killer’, continues to rise across the EU
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November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Looking forward to this! @ema.europa.eu are starting their own podcast
ema.europa.eu European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu · 7d
🎙 New podcast just dropped!

With Inside EMA we take you behind the scenes of medicines regulation in the EU. Episode 1 is all about antimicrobial resistance—a major global health threat.

Hear from our experts on how we’re tackling it.

🎧 Watch here: youtu.be/MlNDrUotltg?...
Inside EMA – Episode 1: The drugs don’t work: Addressing antimicrobial resistance
YouTube video by European Medicines Agency
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November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Late diagnosis results in worse outcomes. On HIV, most EU states have plans, but for Hepatitis B and C the picture is not so good.

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EU missing out on the benefits of early HIV and hepatitis diagnosis
A new ECDC monitoring report shows that many EU/EEA countries are still not achieving the full benefits of early diagnosis for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C
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November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Catherine Feore
seamas.bsky.social
Not even going to get in to the weeds of how self-pitying Nuzzi's "I Did A Shit With My Clothes On: A Survivor's Tale" press tour is, OR that she landed another six-figure salary at a legacy publication ten months later.

Look at this prose. If my mag got sent this, we'd have the writer arrested.
You cannot outrun your life on fire. I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment. A politician’s greatest trick is to convince you that he is not one. And what is a politician? Any man who wants to be loved more than other men and through his pursuit reveals why he cannot love himself. People ask me now about anger. About my lack of it. How? How could I not be enraged? I think this over. I scan the terrain of my body. My chest, my spine, behind my belly button. I look for pale pulses of idle fury, waiting for the alarm to sound at the trip wire of my veins. There is nothing there. There is nothing there because I loaded a gun. I loaded a gun and set it on my nightstand. Like all men but more so, he was a hunter. In a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird. It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery. He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself. I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul.
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Mood m.youtube.com/watch?v=tC0F...
Put 'Em Under Pressure - The Republic of Ireland Football Squad, 1990
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
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November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
C’cil, Parliament and C’ion regroup today to tussle over some of the more tricky parts of the Pharma Package, including the voucher scheme aimed at supporting the development of new antimicrobials. The Pharma industry don’t like how it’s been capped, but EP and MSs unwilling to write a blank cheque
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
“The message it sends is unmistakable: the interests of producers matter more than the wellbeing of citizens.”
perrincam.bsky.social Camille Perrin @perrincam.bsky.social · 16d
“No meeting minutes have been shared, no stakeholder consultation has been opened [..]. For those who work to reduce alcohol-related harm, [..] the message it sends is unmistakable: the interests of producers matter more than the wellbeing of citizens.”
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Lack of transparency of EU's new wine proposals will cause a hangover
The EU Wine Package — a broad reform of the rules for how wine should be produced, marketed, and labelled across the EU — is moving forward with unusual speed and limited transparency.
euobserver.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
Well, I’m not sure what @novonordisk.bsky.social gained from this escapade? Metsera has done pretty well, whether Pfizer or Novo become the next owner. If you’ve missed it, Novo has just announced - on a Saturday morning…- that it will not increase its bid following Pfizer’s counter offer.
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Reposted by Catherine Feore
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EU insurers what more protections from nicotine products for Europe's young people www.vitalsigns.news/eu-insurers-...
EU insurers wants more action to protect Europe’s young
Europe’s social insurers want tougher action on tobacco and nicotine products
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November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Insurers want tougher action on tobacco and nicotine products; Eurocare anti-alcohol NGO closes Brussels office and latest on Novo/Pfizer tussle
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Inside EU Health: Insurers want tough action on tobacco; Eurocare closes office and latest on Novo
Insurers want tough action on tobacco; Eurocare care closes Brussels office and latest on Novo/Pfizer tussle
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November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Catherine Feore
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The @ecdc.europa.eu marks 20 years and looks towards future threats www.vitalsigns.news/ecdc-marks-2...
ECDC marks 20 years of operation and looks to future threats
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reflects on two decades of crisis response and looks ahead to emerging threats
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November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
catherinefeore.bsky.social
We need a European Nasdaq - not just a question of pharma regulations and shorter clinical trials. Better public and private coordination and dialogue needs to be streamlined @europabio.bsky.social Vlad Olteanu #PMHealh @parlimagevents
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Good news for someone who is on their 4th or 5th COVID vaccine booster. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Long-term neutralization capacity of vaccine and breakthrough infection induced SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies against omicron subvariants BA.2, XBB.1.5, and JN.1
The long-term effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines remains a critical area of study, especially with the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 subvariants. In thi…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM