Lauren Gardner

NEW: @US_FDA alum Mike Davis to rejoin agency as deputy director of the drug center. He previously worked in CDER's psychiatry division and most recently worked at a nonprofit developing psychedelic drugs for depression subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

Blumenthal signals interest in revisiting vaccine injury program subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0… via @POLITICOPro

She was a senior reviewer in the device division who was RIF'd in the first round and did not return - a veteran and an MD/PhD. Story from March 2. GIFT: nytimes.com/2025/03/02/us/…

Doctors’ groups sue Kennedy over Covid shot changes for kids, pregnant people politi.co/45Xsbs1 via @politico

In the wake of the latest Supreme Court Obamacare decision, public health lawyers and experts cautioned that legal challenges to health policy may now shift toward assessing the scientific rationale behind those decisions. politico.com/live-updates/2…

I’ve been in Atlanta covering the first ACIP meeting since Kennedy fired and replaced the panel’s members. It’s been an eventful two days. Here’s a recap, with @Gardner_LM politico.com/news/2025/06/2…

#SCOTUS eases states' path to ban Planned Parenthood, or any medical provider, from Medicaid. 6-3 ruling says patients can't sue under fed law when their provider is shunned. Congress could soon ban PP from Medicaid nationally w/@AliceOllstein @Gardner_LM politico.com/news/2025/06/2…

Kennedy’s vaccine panel votes to remove preservative long targeted by activists, w/@sophie_gardnerJ politi.co/3Tesibb via @politico

Lyn Redwood just gave her thimerosal presentation. She's listed on HHS' directory as an "expert" in the secretary's office/office of the assistant sec'y. Other outlets have reported she'll work on vax safety at CDC. No one from HHS has confirmed her new role.

Previous ACIP members were purged due to claims of rampant conflicts of interest. New member Vicky Pebsworth, who's been affiliated with an anti-vaccine group: "I don't know whether I have a conflict or not."

Cody Meissner pulling duty today teaching @CDCgov ACIP 101 to the new panel members about why they take a separate vote on Vaccines for Children eligibility.

Meissner, speaking directly to Levi, says that if he was his pediatrician, "I would strongly recommend that your wife either receive the RSV vaccine or a monoclonal antibody at birth."

Quite the ACIP split-screen coming up on Thursday. Lyn Redwood, former @ChildrensHD president, will give a presentation on flu vaccines w/thimerosal, which she's long linked to autism. CDC "review of the evidence" doc: 25 yrs of data show no connection. cdc.gov/acip/meetings/…

The statement came 12 days after the new members were announced.

The former leader of an anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. will present at the first meeting of the CDC's new vaccine advisory committee cnn.it/3ZLW6Q9

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