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Trump Suspends Visas Allowing Hundreds of Thousands of Foreigners to Work in the U.S.
The move is fiercely opposed by business leaders, who say it will block their ability to recruit critically needed workers from countries overseas.
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Leigh Turner
"Amid the pandemic, the Trump administration has seized on the threat to public health as a pretext to issue a series of policy changes affecting almost every aspect of the immigration system, including asylum and green cards." nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/… By @shearm @mirjordan
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Class action lawsuit moves forward against Florida stem cell clinic accused of aggressive marketing tactics
Four years after a lawsuit was filed against the Lung Institute in Florida, a judge certifies it to move forward as a class action lawsuit. I-Team's Katie LaGrone first reported on allegations against the FL clinic in 2018 and reports on the latest...
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Leigh Turner
"The class action certification now opens the door for potentially hundreds of former patients who also believe they were misled about treatments they received at the clinic." (Disclosure: I've filed reports in this case, been deposed, etc.) abcactionnews.com/news/local-new… @KatieLaGrone
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Could pressure for COVID-19 drugs lead the FDA to lower its standards?
The FDA has sped up its approval process for coronavirus treatments, creating a new division to expedite the regulatory process. But is safety being sidelined for speed?
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Leigh Turner
In @ConversationUS, I examine whether the U.S. FDA is lowering its regulatory standards & being insufficiently transparent as it expedites review of drugs & other products intended to treat individuals with COVID-19 or prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
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Cameras Won’t Stop Police From Killing
Body cams have turned brutality into spectacle.
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Leigh Turner
"What happens when, time & again, law enforcement officers are recorded brutalizing citizens but left unpunished? I worry that police violence will become even more normalized, turning into a crude spectacle that loses even the ability to shock." nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opi… @fmanjoo
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The Golden Road Kratom - 607627 - 05/15/2020
Unapproved and Misbranded Products Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Leigh Turner
"The FDA observed that your website offered kratom products for sale in the United States & that these products were intended to mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure COVID-19 in people. Based on our review, these products were unapproved new drugs."
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Macomb doctor got $2.6M virus PPP loan while peddling phony COVID-19 cure, feds say
Prosecutors revealed a twist in case against Macomb doctor charged in first local case stemming from national COVID-19 fraud crackdown
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Leigh Turner
"A Shelby Township doctor accused of performing phony coronavirus treatments received more than $2.6 million in emergency loans intended to help companies survive the COVID-19 economic shutdown, prosecutors said."
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Watch: Cardboard hospital beds that double as coffins made in Colombia
The cardboard coffins will help poor families who can't afford to pay funeral expenses in the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Leigh Turner
I'm sure nothing provides more reassurance and peace of mind for patients with COVID-19 than a hospital bed that converts into a coffin.
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BBC World Service - Health Check, Stem cell therapies unproven for Covid-19
Buyer Beware! Stem cell therapies unproven against Covid-19
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Leigh Turner
"Unproven & unlicensed stem cell therapies for Covid-19 are being marketed by a number of small companies in the United States." @claudiahammond & @AndrewLuckBaker on U.S. clinics advertising purported "stem cell therapies" for COVID-19.
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Column: Don't be taken in by stem cell firms offering unsubstantiated therapies for COVID-19
Clinics with unproven stem cell treatments are already targeting COVID-19 fears.
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Leigh Turner
"It wouldn’t be surprising to see more companies & clinics showing up in the media & on cable television hawking unsubstantiated stem cell treatments for COVID-19." @hiltzikm on clinics peddling unproven & unlicensed stem cell interventions for COVID-19.
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Mayo Clinic announces sweeping pay cuts, furloughs
The changes come in response to halting elective surgeries and procedures, which Mayo officials say are predicted to result in a $3 billion loss by the end of the year.
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Leigh Turner
Mayo Clinic "is instituting across the board pay cuts and furloughs to shoulder a projected $3 billion loss this year." mprnews.org/story/2020/04/… By @CatRichert
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Former FDA leaders decry emergency authorization of malaria drugs for coronavirus
Widespread use of unproven drugs could hurt clinical trials
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Leigh Turner
“Why take a 50% chance of getting a placebo when you can be guaranteed to get a drug you’re hoping to get? Then you’re left in a situation where a drug is widely used and evidence of its effectiveness for this indication is never generated.” sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/f… By @cpiller
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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Leigh Turner
"DocTalkGo, an online urgent care center, recently launched a website that for $89 will assess symptoms of Covid-19 and issue a prescription for hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug being tested to treat the virus."
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The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal
The coronavirus outbreak may last for a year or two, but some elements of pre-pandemic life will likely be won back in the meantime.
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Leigh Turner
.@AndrewNoymer: “Prematurely ending severe social distancing would be an incredible blunder that would have major human consequences. What is ‘prematurely’? The truth is, we don’t know yet, exactly, but it’s longer than a fortnight.”
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Throngs of travelers arriving back in the US are jam-packed in airports after Trump's coronavirus travel ban
Trump's coronavirus travel ban just created "a perfect storm for creating massive case clusters," one expert said.
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Leigh Turner
"You could hardly invent a better scenario for superspreading events." insider.com/crowds-travele… By @michelleamark HT @gorskon
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Coronavirus vaccine clinical trial starting without usual animal data- STAT
Ethicists aren’t so sure that the eventual benefits of rushing this unproven vaccine into clinical trials will outweigh the risks.
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Leigh Turner
"Kaiser Permanente did not reply to STAT’s request for the informed consent form that trial participants are signing, which is supposed to describe the risks they will face..." statnews.com/2020/03/11/res… By @ericboodman
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Cord Blood Bank of Canada hasn't returned clients' calls for more than a year as company faces $600K lawsuit | CBC News
Dozens of parents across Canada are worried about the state of their children’s potentially life-saving stem cells now that the Toronto company they’ve been paying to store them is facing a $600,000 lawsuit and won’t return their phone calls.
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Leigh Turner
"Dozens of parents across Canada are worried about the state of their children's" banked umbilical cord blood "now that the Toronto company they've been paying to store them is facing a $600,000 lawsuit & won't return their phone calls." cbc.ca/news/canada/to… @nicolebrockbank
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ISSCR Statement Regarding the Marketing of Unproven Stem Cell Treatments for COVID-19
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Leigh Turner
.@isscr: "While stem cell research shows promise for numerous diseases and conditions, there currently are no approved stem cell-based approaches for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection." isscr.org/news-publicati… HT @ABatemanHouse
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Exclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing
“I don’t know what went wrong,” a former CDC chief told The Atlantic.
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Leigh Turner
"The figures we gathered suggest that the American response to the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, has been shockingly sluggish, especially compared with that of other developed countries." theatlantic.com/health/archive… By @yayitsrob @alexismadrigal
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CBER Raises Concerns With Cell Product Promoter RejuvaYou
The US FDA’s Office of Compliance and Biologics Quality in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) earlier this week raised concerns with South Pasadena, CA-based RejuvaYou Medical Corporation, which claims to treat people with...
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Leigh Turner
The FDA "earlier this week raised alarms with South Pasadena, CA-based RejuvaYou Medical Corporation, which claims to treat people with serious illnesses with umbilical cord blood and other cellular products." raps.org/news-and-artic… By @ZacharyBrennan
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Postdoc Researcher Falling Short of Expectations at University of Leiden
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