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    The fledgling Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is about to pick up the pace.The new agency charged with funding high-risk, high-reward research unveiled its first program, NITRO, or Novel Innovations for Tissue Regeneration in Osteoarthritis, last month. It’s now seeking innovative plans from scientists to develop a breakthrough therapy that would allow the body to repair its own…

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    • ‘De-risking’ the moonshots at ARPA-H https://t.co/l2o4OeNjxN

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    Walensky’s handover - 10 month(s) ago

    It’s CDC Director Rochelle Walensky’s last day at the agency, but she’s still thinking a lot about the agency’s work ahead.

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    • “The density of public health threats that we have seen — in addition to Covid — have been ones that we have not previously seen” https://t.co/AFaZ9QhJ1R

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    The CDC is warning doctors to be on guard for malaria after at least five locally acquired cases, in Florida and Texas, were identified for the first time in decades.

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    • In this @politico article I discuss the recent cases of locally acquired malaria in Florida & Texas that were identified for the first time in decades The resurgence of malaria in the US is also a stark reminder that climate change transcends borders. https://t.co/ubMqiWsY2R

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    The partisan dispute over Covid vaccine mandates is back, and it’s set to roil Congress’ effort to pass a defense authorization law for the 63rd consecutive year.The House Armed Services Committee late Wednesday night added amendments to its version of the National Defense Authorization Act to protect the more than 8,400 troops discharged after they refused to get a Covid vaccine under a Pentagon…

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    • I don’t see how this should be a political issue. It is a workforce issue that is best handled by the surgeon generals of the armed services (like other vaccines are), not pandering politicians https://t.co/WjC6mXP9Gt

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    Programming note: We’ll be off this Monday for Juneteenth, but we’ll be back in your inboxes on Tuesday. Two Democratic senators are concerned that Amazon’s virtual care platform is “harvesting” patient health data.In a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy that Ben obtained exclusively, Sens. Peter Welch of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts point to recent reporting in The Washington…

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    • If you could ask any tech company one question about their healthcare efforts and they would have to answer you diligently, what question would you ask and to what tech giant? I'd ask Google what the hell they are doing with Fitbit. https://t.co/uXI44tkxAg