Showing posts with label Robert F. Kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert F. Kennedy. Show all posts

Sunday, October 11, 2026

The US HHS Department has launched a new research program aimed at dramatically reducing the cost and duration of clinical trials

Good news! Bravo Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.!

In the past too much precaution has made clinical trials too complicated, expensive and taking up way too much time!

"... The initiative, called SURPASS, aims to develop new trial methods that require fewer patients than conventional trials, combine traditional trial phases, reduce administrative overhead, and make greater use of artificial intelligence. To develop those methods, the agency is seeking trial design proposals from research teams to evaluate drug candidates using their proposed methods."

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  • The Simulation-augmented, Real-time Platform Adaptive Seamless Trials (SURPASS) program aims to modernize today’s clinical trials so they can evaluate drugs and biologics faster, at lower cost, and with fewer participants than conventional approaches.
  • SURPASS seeks to build perpetual, adaptive platform trials that combine predictive computational models, shared trial infrastructure, common control groups, and real-time analysis to enable earlier, smarter decision making that will help speed effective drugs to patients.
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Doomslayer: Progress Roundup - by Malcolm Cochran

US Initiative Aims to Speed Drug Development and Reduce Costs

SURPASS Simulation-augmented, Real-time Platform Adaptive Seamless Trials (official website) "What if we could shorten clinical trials from taking more than a decade to less than four years?"

Saturday, October 03, 2026

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Announces Nearly $100M for homelessness and mental illness care

Good news!

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in Houston on Friday that eight communities will receive a total of $96 million for homelessness and mental illness care.

Kennedy visited a Houston Christian shelter and recovery center called Open Door, serving men experiencing homelessness and addiction, where he announced the new Safety Through Recovery, Engagement, and Evidence-based Treatment and Support, or STREETS, program. ...

Communities in Ohio, Oklahoma, Michigan, Texas, West Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, and Louisiana will receive $3 million a year for four years, Kennedy announced. ...

Kennedy said in a statement. “Under President [Donald] Trump, we will no longer accept a system that manages human suffering instead of ending it. We are helping people reclaim their health, rebuild their lives, and achieve the dignity, purpose, and independence that come with recovery.” ..."

EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Announces Millions to Treat Homeless




Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Note On PBS Robert F. Kennedy Documentary

Posted: 9/16/2015

Trigger

Just watched American Experience Robert F Kennedy PBS Documentary. I would definitely recommend this documentary.

Sirhan Sirhan

The documentary spent only about 1-2 minutes on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as if it was just another killing in the 1960s. We only learn the name of the assassin and where it happened. Nothing else. This is lousy work by the creators of this documentary.

That the assassin is still alive and serving his prison term the viewer would never know. The killer was born in Jerusalem. He is a Jordanian citizen. His assassination is perhaps one of the first major terrorist acts of Arabs/Muslims against Western countries, predating the 1972 Olympic Games massacre of Israeli athletes.

When reading some of the detailed circumstances of RFK’s murder one wonders how the assassin knew where RFK would be at that time since his path inside the hotel to the next event were changed ad hoc.

Did the killer really act alone?