Natasha Loder 🦋🐝
@natashaloder
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Health Editor, The Economist
London, England
Joined February 2009
RT @PeterASinger: .@natashaloder and I argue that company foundations should be able to promote global access — by supporting financial i….
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RT @JohnCendpts: Manufacturing costs go down, prices stable. Profits surge. What's not to love about that formula?.
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RT @DrNeilStone: The good news :. HPV vaccine can ELIMINATE cervical cancer -and is doing so in places like Sweden🇸🇪!. The bad news :. HPV….
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I greatly look forward to seeing Eli Lilly returning the additional money that private patients must now spend in Britain on Mounjaro in order to lower drug prices in the US as Mr Trump wants. Be sure to let us know which prices come down.
ft.com
Maker of popular Mounjaro treatment seeks to address White House concerns over higher medicine costs for Americans
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RT @PeterASinger: So @natashaloder and I believe the forthcoming arrival of generic semaglutide is a huge new opportunity for global publi….
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So @PeterASinger and I believe the forthcoming arrival of generic semaglutide is a huge new opportunity for global public health. We co-publish today in our respective Substacks. He is found on and I'm at
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. A more intense schedule might mean doctors have less time or are more fatigued". Prof Venet Osmani, Professor of Clinical AI and Machine Learning, Queen Mary University of London. @venet.
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More context: the number of colonoscopies performed nearly doubled after the AI tool was introduced, going from 795 to 1382. It's possible that this sharp increase in workload,. could have led to a lower detection rate. 1/2.
Does A.I. support of physicians lead to their deskilling?.A new report of gastroenterologists doing colonoscopy for polyp detection, with and without A.I., raises the possibility @LancetGastroHep
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Some interesting choices here. So @JDVance complains about poor freedom of expression in the UK, then chooses to come on holiday here and allows his security detail request the social media handles of local residents.
The police are asking local Cotswolds residents for their social media handles to be passed onto to JD Vance's security detail. Glad to hear some people refused. Honestly the nerve of it, especially for the man who criticised Europe for censorship .
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Jay Bhattacharya says only 25% uptake of covid shots means public distrust in mRNA platform. It seems more likely an endorsement of the vaccine with this uptake coming from those of 60 or 65 who still benefit from annual booster shots.
fiercebiotech.com
The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has said the federal government’s discontinuation of mRNA vaccine development is because the platform is “no longer viable” due to publi | The...
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Actually quite a clever idea.
The FDA is sitting on a goldmine of drug development data — 10,000+ page dossiers detailing how drugs are designed, made, tested, and approved. Big Pharma has these in-house. Startups? Locked out. It’s time to fix that. Read my proposal for @IFP on how.
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RT @JeremyFarrar: Progress in many areas of cancer prevention and care, but some have shown less progress over the last 50 years. https://t….
bbc.co.uk
Half of people with cancer survive but lack of progress for some forms of disease is worrying experts.
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So if karma has anything to say about ditching mRNA for whole virus inactivated in the hunt for a universal flu vaccine it will demand an aluminium adjuvant for efficacy.
nih.gov
These vaccines aim to provide broad-spectrum protection against multiple strains of multiple viruses.
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RT @janinedigi: I’ve reported 18 wars over 35 years. I’ve been shot at, kidnapped, threatened, nearly raped. I’ve lost friends from Sarajev….
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I'm having a quiet chuckle at everyone who is confidentaly predicting that because the oral weightloss drug orforglipron is cheaper to make then it will be cheaper to buy.
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