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In June, the FDA approved aducanumab (Aduhelm) to treat patients with Alzheimer s disease using the agency s accelerated approval pathway, despite significant concerns about the evidence regarding the drug s safety and effectiveness. The agency s approval decision contradicted the recommendations of its own advisory committee, which voted overwhelmingly against the evidence presented in support of the drug. Soon after approval, three members of the committee resigned in protest. In his resignation letter, Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, of the Harvard School of Medicine, called the aducanumab decision probably the worst drug approval decision in recent U.S. history. Tia Powell, MD, director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics, called the FDA decision a failure of scientific integrity.
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Reopening schools has been one of the most contested issues of the COVID-19 era, and few have been happy with the pace – parent, teacher or student. One person who thought New York City has tackled it correctly is Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Unlike some national labor figures, Weingarten remains influential among local education unions in New York, where she headed the United Federation of Teachers from 1998 to 2009.
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As international president of the Transport Workers Union, John Samuelsen represents 150,000 transit workers, including 41,000 at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, his former employer whose tracks stretch from New York City to Poughkeepsie and Montauk. After a $3.9 billion bailout in March 2020, the MTA is receiving another $6 billion in aid via the American Rescue Plan, sidestepping once again the looming jobs catastrophe caused by the pandem