Moderna layoffs, Frazier, Trulicity, Vinay Prasad

Moderna layoffs, Frazier, Trulicity, Vinay Prasad

Today we talk about an advance in an experimental mRNA vaccine for HIV, dive deep on Vinay Prasad’s sudden FDA departure, and more. The need-to-know this morning Inside the undoing of Vinay Prasad at the FDA Vinay Prasad’s short-lived but polarizing run as head of the FDA’s biologics division ended just 84 days in, after his…

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General Practice nursing – where is it going and what are the possibilities for GP nurses?

General Practice nursing – where is it going and what are the possibilities for GP nurses?

Dr Brendan O’Shea discusses challenges and opportunities with former IGPNEA chair Rita Pender Rita Pender has recently stepped down as IGPNEA Chair to become interim Director of Nursing Education within the Association and will continue as Lead for GP Nursing on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, within NMBI’s (Pilot) Professional Competency Scheme. In…

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NSAC opens call for submissions

NSAC opens call for submissions

The call for submissions is an annual process that invites members of the public and health professionals to make submissions on Ireland’s screening programme The National Screening Advisory Committee (NSAC) has opened its 2025 call for submissions. NSAC is the independent committee which makes recommendations to the Minister for Health on the introduction of new…

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George Tidmarsh named acting head of FDA’s CBER

George Tidmarsh named acting head of FDA’s CBER

George Tidmarsh, the Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, will take on additional responsibilities on a temporary basis after the sudden departure of top official Vinay Prasad on Tuesday. Tidmarsh has been named acting director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said in an email viewed by…

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The Freud Project, Year Fifteen

The Freud Project, Year Fifteen

Prof Brendan Kelly continues his project on Sigmund Freud by looking at his Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis For reasons too complex to explain, I have undertaken to read all 24 volumes of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, at the rate of one volume per year, over the course of…

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