This is my life’s work so I’m biased - but I do think we should still invest in HIV vaccine research. True, it was probably time to reevaluate the amount of that investment, now that we also have long-acting PrEP. But under no circumstances should it be zero.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

New preprint, as described by David below. There's been an increase in doxycycline use for prevention and treatment of bacterial STIs. What's happened to resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae? Here we track tetM, a tetracycline-resistance gene, looking at both proportion and phylogenetics.

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

BREAKING NEWS: In a scoop to Inside Medicine, we've learned that Indian Health Services employees are exempt from the Trump admin "Deferred Resignation Program."

News implies jobs of many IHS employees serving >2m American Indian/Alaska Native benefices are safe.
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One way to reduce drug spend is to have the FDA do an analysis of how long medicine retains it's potency. It can do it one drug at a time.

No one should throw away medicine they shouldn't have to. Whether pharmacy or patient.

www.propublica.org/article/the-...