Flynn Murphy
@flynnmurphy.bsky.social
Reporter covering the politics of science and medicine in China and the region
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Flynn Murphy
@flynnmurphy.bsky.social
· Apr 2
Happy Liberation Day. Here's how Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains
How Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains
The supply chains that deliver drugs to patients around the world are surprisingly brittle. Donald Trump’s trade war—with both allies and rivals—could break them. Flynn Murphy reports When hurricane…
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//A source [said Thaksin] travelled to Singapore for a scheduled health check-up [and] plans to return to Thailand before the court's ruling on Sept 9. The source emphasised that the trip is solely for medical reasons and not an attempt to evade justice.//
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Thaksin takes private jet to Singapore for check-up
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has travelled to Singapore for a medical examination and insists he will return to Thailand within two days to hear the ruling in his extended hospital stay ca...
www.bangkokpost.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
//A source [said Thaksin] travelled to Singapore for a scheduled health check-up [and] plans to return to Thailand before the court's ruling on Sept 9. The source emphasised that the trip is solely for medical reasons and not an attempt to evade justice.//
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Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants
Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants
Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants
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"I knew that if we were in Canada, this is a boy who would easily be treatable . . . and yet we just had to sit there and watch him die."
Doctors and aid workers describe watching helplessly as Palestinian children die of starvation and treatable injuries
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Doctors and aid workers describe watching helplessly as Palestinian children die of starvation and treatable injuries
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August 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"I knew that if we were in Canada, this is a boy who would easily be treatable . . . and yet we just had to sit there and watch him die."
Doctors and aid workers describe watching helplessly as Palestinian children die of starvation and treatable injuries
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Doctors and aid workers describe watching helplessly as Palestinian children die of starvation and treatable injuries
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Despite recent progress, observers said a swift resolution to Korea’s longest-ever doctor strike is unlikely as several thorny issues persist
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South Korean government restarts talks with trainee doctors after mass resignation in medical school places row
South Korea’s new government has restarted talks with junior doctors and medical students, raising hopes for an end to a 17 month impasse over a plan to steeply increase medical school admissions, whi...
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July 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Despite recent progress, observers said a swift resolution to Korea’s longest-ever doctor strike is unlikely as several thorny issues persist
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help
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Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help
The initiative will focus on diabetes and weight management, conversational artificial intelligence that helps patients, and digital tools such as QR codes and apps that register patients for check-in...
apnews.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Chinese government launches investigation after 233 children poisoned with lead www.bmj.com/content/390/...
July 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Chinese government launches investigation after 233 children poisoned with lead www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Shanghai issues “negative list” to doctors of online behaviours to avoid, amid transparency concerns, by @flynnmurphy.bsky.social
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Shanghai issues “negative list” to doctors of online behaviours to avoid, amid transparency concerns
Shanghai’s municipal health authorities have issued a “negative list” of nine types of online behaviour that doctors should avoid, from unlawful advertising to criticising government policy, in what t...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Shanghai issues “negative list” to doctors of online behaviours to avoid, amid transparency concerns, by @flynnmurphy.bsky.social
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Fact checking the new COVID.gov website kucharski.substack.com/p/fact-check...
Fact checking the new COVID.gov website
From public health resource to politically charged claims
kucharski.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Fact checking the new COVID.gov website kucharski.substack.com/p/fact-check...
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Lu Siwei, Chinese human rights lawyer who fled to Laos and sent back to China, is sentenced to 11 months in prison for "illegally crossing the border". Many rights lawyers are now barred from leaving China: ino.to/xOZe4eL
四川人权律师卢思位被控“涉嫌偷越国境罪”一案将于2025年4月18日在成都市成华区法院宣判 卢思位获刑11个月
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April 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Lu Siwei, Chinese human rights lawyer who fled to Laos and sent back to China, is sentenced to 11 months in prison for "illegally crossing the border". Many rights lawyers are now barred from leaving China: ino.to/xOZe4eL
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FDA “is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities.”
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FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
www.cbsnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
FDA “is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities.”
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from the great @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social
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Gaza: Israel’s hospital attacks leave critically ill patients lying on the street www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Gaza: Israel’s hospital attacks leave critically ill patients lying on the street
An Israeli attack on Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza forced critically ill patients out onto the street, killing at least one patient who relied on oxygen, and destroyed vital equipment, including…
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April 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Gaza: Israel’s hospital attacks leave critically ill patients lying on the street www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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A STAT Special Report
Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued
Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued
Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued
The Trump administration’s remaking of HHS — in a matter of weeks — is sparking basic questions about how parts of the agency and those it oversees can continue to function.
buff.ly
April 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A STAT Special Report
Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued
Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued
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new Pynchon novel!!!! about a 1930s private eye!!!! named Hicks McTaggart!!!!
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon: 9781594206108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation busines...
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April 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
new Pynchon novel!!!! about a 1930s private eye!!!! named Hicks McTaggart!!!!
//Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. will soon announce a "major" tariff on pharmaceutical imports.
Speaking to an event at the National Republican Congressional Committee, Trump said the tariff will incentivize drug companies to move their operations to the U.S.//
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Speaking to an event at the National Republican Congressional Committee, Trump said the tariff will incentivize drug companies to move their operations to the U.S.//
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Trump says US will soon announce tariffs on pharmaceutical imports
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. will soon announce a "major" tariff on pharmaceutical imports.
www.reuters.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
//Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. will soon announce a "major" tariff on pharmaceutical imports.
Speaking to an event at the National Republican Congressional Committee, Trump said the tariff will incentivize drug companies to move their operations to the U.S.//
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Speaking to an event at the National Republican Congressional Committee, Trump said the tariff will incentivize drug companies to move their operations to the U.S.//
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
//Apart from Office functions, Microsoft will also stop offering artificial intelligence services including Github Copilot and GPT operated by OpenAI, according to the internal email seen by Nikkei Asia.//
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China's BGI Genomics loses access to Microsoft's office software
U.S. tech giant's license with Huawei recently lapsed
asia.nikkei.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
//Apart from Office functions, Microsoft will also stop offering artificial intelligence services including Github Copilot and GPT operated by OpenAI, according to the internal email seen by Nikkei Asia.//
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...
//Until now, a practitioner [in Australia] would only have active sanctions or suspensions listed on their registration and once any conditions were inactive, they would be removed from public view.//
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Sexual misconduct findings to be permanently listed on doctor registrations
Health practitioners will now have proven findings of sexual misconduct permanently listed on their public registration, giving patients the ability to make more informed choices about who they seek c...
www.abc.net.au
April 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
//Until now, a practitioner [in Australia] would only have active sanctions or suspensions listed on their registration and once any conditions were inactive, they would be removed from public view.//
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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A shout out again for Flynn Murphy's brilliant in depth analysis of the US tariffs, China and global medical supply chains. It's free to read. bsky.app/profile/munk... @globalhealthnow.bsky.social
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Happy Liberation Day. Here's how Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains https://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r648
bsky.app
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A shout out again for Flynn Murphy's brilliant in depth analysis of the US tariffs, China and global medical supply chains. It's free to read. bsky.app/profile/munk... @globalhealthnow.bsky.social
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Amid Measles Outbreaks, Poison Centers See Uptick in Vit A Exposures in Kids www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Amid Measles Outbreaks, Poison Centers See Uptick in Vit A Exposures in Kids
RFK Jr. has touted the vitamin for the highly contagious virus
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April 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Amid Measles Outbreaks, Poison Centers See Uptick in Vit A Exposures in Kids www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Superb piece by Jill Lepore on how Musk's futurism constitutes a retread of the reactionary, antidemocratic, and bizarre technocracy movement that his grandfather led.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
Opinion | The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk
His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Superb piece by Jill Lepore on how Musk's futurism constitutes a retread of the reactionary, antidemocratic, and bizarre technocracy movement that his grandfather led.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
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WHO to cut budget by a fifth following Trump withdrawal
WHO to cut budget by a fifth following Trump withdrawal
The World Health Organization will slash its budget for 2026-27 by more than a fifth after the US withdrew, and other nations reduced, its funding. WHO plans to cut back the scale of its projects and…
www.bmj.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
WHO to cut budget by a fifth following Trump withdrawal
//[China] also launched an anti-dumping probe into imports of certain medical CT tubes from the U.S. and India, and a wider industry competitiveness investigation into imports of medical CT tubes.//
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China to impose tariffs of 34% on all US goods from April 10
China's finance ministry said on Friday it will impose additional tariffs of 34% on all U.S. goods from April 10 as a countermeasure to sweeping tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
//[China] also launched an anti-dumping probe into imports of certain medical CT tubes from the U.S. and India, and a wider industry competitiveness investigation into imports of medical CT tubes.//
www.reuters.com/world/china-...
www.reuters.com/world/china-...
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“RFK Jr. promised radical transparency; he only got half of that right. This is radical." — Communications staff & workers in #HHS agencies' freedom of information offices among those fired on Tuesday. Flow of info, which was already not great, sure to slow. www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
After RFK Jr.’s ‘radical transparency’ pledge, HHS shutters much of its communications, FOIA operations
After health secretary RFK Jr.’s ‘radical transparency’ pledge, HHS has shuttered much of the agency's communications and FOIA operations.
www.statnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“RFK Jr. promised radical transparency; he only got half of that right. This is radical." — Communications staff & workers in #HHS agencies' freedom of information offices among those fired on Tuesday. Flow of info, which was already not great, sure to slow. www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
My latest for The BMJ
Happy Liberation Day. Here's how Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains
How Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains
The supply chains that deliver drugs to patients around the world are surprisingly brittle. Donald Trump’s trade war—with both allies and rivals—could break them. Flynn Murphy reports When hurricane…
www.bmj.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My latest for The BMJ
Reposted by Flynn Murphy
Happy Liberation Day. Here's how Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains
How Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains
The supply chains that deliver drugs to patients around the world are surprisingly brittle. Donald Trump’s trade war—with both allies and rivals—could break them. Flynn Murphy reports When hurricane…
www.bmj.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Happy Liberation Day. Here's how Trump’s trade war will break global medicine supply chains
Reposted by Flynn Murphy
What was all that about a “mysterious” covid-like virus overwhelming Chinese hospitals? We factchecked how the stories about human metapneumovirus (HMPV) came about. It's all about the poor use of data (again!)
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Fact check: Human metapneumovirus in China
Reports that a “mysterious” covid-like virus is overwhelming Chinese hospitals have made international headlines. Is human metapneumovirus (HMPV) a common winter bug that is following an expected seas...
www.bmj.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
What was all that about a “mysterious” covid-like virus overwhelming Chinese hospitals? We factchecked how the stories about human metapneumovirus (HMPV) came about. It's all about the poor use of data (again!)
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...