Nyah Phengsitthy
@nyahphengsitthy
Reporting on FDA, drug pricing and health care @blaw | ✉️: [email protected] | Signal: andnyahknow.01
The pharmaceutical industry has a fresh sense of direction after President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending law included a provision that could keep certain rare disease drugs from being subject to government price negotiations. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…
My latest feature, on the growing revolt within key parts of MAHA after three mRNA vaccine approvals under @SecKennedy and @DrMakaryFDA. endpoints.news/fdas-continued…
if i knew how to back flip that'd be my response to everything
happy anniversary everyone
Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here in DC.
The biotech veteran was involved in the development of several approved drugs, likely making him a reassuring choice for a pharmaceutical industry that’s facing pressure from the Trump administration to lower prices and move drug manufacturing to the US bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A federal judge refused Friday to remove an order that halted US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from carrying out mass firings and restructuring across health agencies. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…
Let me tell you right now, Fitz wasn’t finna duck 😭
Family planning clinics are turning to states to temporarily fill gaps left by deep cuts in the Trump administration’s multi-trillion-dollar spending law that are poised to dramatically curtail reproductive health care access. My latest for @BLaw: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…
Yes we do
just remembered that americans don’t have random old castles in the countryside that they can go and visit
The Trump administration is fighting back against a court order blocking the Department of Health and Human Services from slashing $11 billion in grants for fighting infectious disease measures and other state public health efforts. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…
NEW: A major family planning care provider in Maine is suing the Trump administration over its new prohibition on Medicaid dollars going to Planned Parenthood and other large reproductive health centers that offer abortion care. More here for @BLaw: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…
News w/ @nyahphengsitthy: HHS officially separated with employees laid off on April 1 on Monday, following a Supreme Court order. Employees under a separate court order in Rhode Island were not affected. A HHS spokesperson declined to comment on the total number of layoffs.
News: AG Pam Bondi's order to dismiss charges against Utah plastic surgeon accused of selling fake Covid vaccine cards ran counter to an earlier decision from her weaponization working group. In April, the group rebuffed an appeal from doctor's lawyer: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/do…
A new fight is brewing over Medicare drug price negotiations after the Trump administration proposed to consider fixed-dose combo drugs for price cuts with their original drug. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…
Not an artist coming to sing moon river for them mid argument
Scoop: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics chief, Joseph Tirrell. Without explanation, she removes DOJ ethics office director who advised the most senior political appointees (Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, etc.) on conflicts. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bo…
Scoop: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency would consider giving pharma companies expedited reviews for their medicines if they bring drug prices in line with what foreign countries pay. w/ @SamHornblower bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
News: The FDA plans to publish rejection letters describing why medicines aren't approved that companies have mostly kept hidden until now via @damiangarde + @SamHornblower bloomberg.com/news/articles/…