Mun-Keat Looi

@munkeatlooi.bsky.social

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International News & Features Editor @bmj.com
Journalism lecturer, @Imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
Japanophile, #MUFC. Views mine

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 12h

Why clinical trials are leaving the US—and Asia and Australia are welcoming them buff.ly/iA5oK7g

Why clinical trials are leaving the US—and Asia and Australia are welcoming them

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 18h

Wegovy: FDA accuses Novo Nordisk of “false or misleading” ad for weight loss pill buff.ly/6XGFcj3

Wegovy: FDA accuses Novo Nordisk of “false or misleading” ad for weight loss pill

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 1d

Botswana health crisis as diamond trade drains the country’s finances buff.ly/PBTIpOx

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 1d

Trump repeals EPA climate change regulations in move scientists say is a “rejection of the laws of physics” buff.ly/emXsNFd

Trump repeals EPA climate change regulations in move scientists say is a “rejection of the laws of physics”

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 2d

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules harming its global competitiveness www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult).

I got my MMR about 10 years ago!

www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Reposted by Mun-Keat Looi, Élisabeth Vallet

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

This is the chart in question

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 2d

France cuts funding for Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria by more than half buff.ly/vYfujYf

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 3d

US to participate in meeting on influenza vaccine composition, WHO official says buff.ly/KsZqfp0

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 3d

Four states sue Trump administration over cuts to public health funding buff.ly/0vYKY0G

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ABSW @absw.bsky.social · 3d

#ABSWmembers #Elections

This is the second time that @munkeatlooi.bsky.social has taken on the role of Board member, but you don't need to have done it before.
Just bring your new perspectives and a will to put ideas into practice.

You can make a difference!

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 3d

Another NIH institute loses its director buff.ly/atKpubD

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” buff.ly/acMG1tZ

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 5d

Pause youth gender surgery, leading US medical associations say, as hospitals start limiting care

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

US and Moderna: FDA refuses approval process for new mRNA flu vaccine buff.ly/ccqN4pJ

US and Moderna: FDA refuses approval process for new mRNA flu vaccine

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 6d

NIH will no longer characterize basic experimental studies involving humans as clinical trials buff.ly/oTnoqMM

NIH redefines 'clinical trials,' dividing researchers

In a long-debated move, the NIH will no longer characterize basic experimental studies involving humans as clinical trials.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 8d

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine

The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 9d

First human trials of locally-developed HIV jab begin in South Africa First human trials of locally-developed HIV jab begin in South Africa www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 9d

I remember this being cited to me recently as an example of a great model to aspire to. Sadly nothing is perfect.

Kaiser Permanente strike expands as pharmacy, lab workers walk out

More than 3,000 pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and clinical laboratory professionals joined the strike, which entered its third week on Monday.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 9d

Israel accepts Gaza death toll of 70 000, but experts say true number is much higher buff.ly/9rfNgcq

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 9d

Study followed participants in two long-running studies of medical practitioners: women in the Nurses’ Health Study and men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf.

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 10d

Good section in here on the health needs of kids held in ICE detention www.propublica.org/article/life...

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 10d

Argentina: No Withdrawal From Pan American Health Organization - Despite Leaving WHO - Health Policy Watch healthpolicy-watch.news/argentina-sa...

Argentina: No Withdrawal From Pan American Health Organization - Despite Leaving WHO - Health Policy Watch

Although Argentina is withdrawing from the World Health Organization’s global body, it intends to remain an active member in WHO's regional affiliate, the Pan

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 10d

With $48M in philanthropic backing, a division of USAID relaunches as a nonprofit buff.ly/Ga8NqG6

Reposted by Jocalyn Clark, Mun-Keat Looi

The BMJ @bmj.com · 10d

📣 Call for papers on the geopolitics of global health.

We are inviting submissions of articles that interrogate and uncover the geopolitical determinants of global health.

Read more in this editorial from @jocalynclark.bsky.social and Gabriel Leung
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 13d

Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia buff.ly/6hDeo5L

Kennedy Makes Unfounded Claim That Keto Diet Can ‘Cure’ Schizophrenia

The claim vastly overstates preliminary research into whether the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet might help people with the disorder, experts said.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 13d

Members of the WHO are trying to figure out how to deal with the $260 million bill Donald Trump left unpaid when the U.S. formally quit the global health agency earlier this year.