#safeguards — Public Fediverse posts

For #AI-enabled #MedicalDevices, being cleared or approved by the #US #FDA does not mean being tested on #PatientOutcomes:

1,357 AI medical devices cleared, 3 actually tested on patient outcomes
https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pdig.0001597

#ArtficialIntelligence
#OpenAccess
@plosdigihealth

"Most studies (62%) employed #observational designs with small, homogenous #cohorts, limited #SubgroupAnalyses, and frequent exclusion of #VulnerablePopulations. Structural barriers (including misaligned financial incentives, reliance on predicate-based regulatory pathways, and logistical challenges of multi-center trials) discourage rigorous #evaluation. Internationally, FDA clearance often functions as a gateway for global #deployment, raising #ethical concerns when under-validated tools are introduced into low- and middle-income countries #LMIC without contextual #validation or #safeguards. Regulatory approval has outpaced clinical validation, creating an ecosystem where innovation advances without accountability."

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peer-hits-back-at-claims-of-filibustering-over-vague-and-poorly-drafted-assisted-suicide-bill/. "The bill’s opponents - including Baroness Grey-Thompson - say their #amendments are crucial to add #safeguards to a private members’ bill that is vague, unsafe & poorly-drafted."

HT @rmblaber1956

#EnvironmentalGroups sue #Trump’s #EPA over repeal of landmark #climate finding

Lawsuit from #health and #EnvironmentalJustice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

Dharna Noor
Wed 18 Feb 2026 07.10 EST

"More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.

"Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the '#EndangermentFinding', which states that the buildup of heat-trapping #pollution in the atmosphere endangers #PublicHealth and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from #vehicles, #PowerPlants and other #industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the #ClimateCrisis.

"The suit was brought by the American Public Health Association [#APHA], #AmericanLungAssociation, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund, the #NaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil [#NRDC], the #SierraClub and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations #CleanAirTaskForce and #Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency’s administrator, #LeeZeldin, as defendants.

" 'EPA’s repeal of the endangerment finding and #safeguards to limit vehicle emissions marks a complete dereliction of the agency’s mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the #CleanAirAct,' said #GretchenGoldman, president and CEO at the #UnionOfConcernedScientists, another one of the groups behind the lawsuit. 'This shameful and dangerous action by the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Zeldin is rooted in falsehoods not facts and is at complete odds with the public interest and the best available science.' "

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/trump-epa-environment-climate-lawsuit

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/kp4pY

#USPol #ClimateChange #EPAFail #ClimateCrisis #GreenhouseGas #FossilFools #FossilFuelIndustry #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CorporatePolluters

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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