"The White House’s proposed rule would overhaul federal grant review, replacing objective merit with political alignment as the chief criteria for grant awards...the impacts of this proposed rule would be dire..." I so appreciate the ID Society these days. www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Its not just measles. “There were more than 28,000 cases [of whooping cough] reported last year, compared with around 7,000 in 2023.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w...

“If reporting exposure means Kenya instead of home, some workers won’t report. They’ll fly commercial, unmonitored. That’s how a policy meant to keep Ebola out becomes the thing that brings it in.” www.celinegounder.com/p/tanks-at-t...

"In autonomy crazed America each person is their own engine of health... [but] Living downwind of the petrochemical plant, on a landfill, next to a data center pumping out pollutants or under a busy airport flight path makes staying healthy..." www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DTZXZ...

"One profound casualty is the principle that the medical profession should define its curricula independent of political influence from state or federal governments. In many locations... control of medical curricula may no longer be in the hands of medical faculty." www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“While her funding was fully restored last year, the damage has already been done. The… site she was working with in Puerto Rico decided to stop partnering with her team… [and] she can’t blame them given that invoices from the clinic had piled up unpaid for months.” www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

“The hypothesis is you make people happy and they are going to ignore the structural stuff. And what he finds is the opposite. If you look at people who are taking action to fix structural problems, it’s the people who have the highest positive emotion.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/m...

“It is nuts that the U.S. government, U.S. taxpayers put a lot of effort and money into building up the capacity for exactly this situation. And now we’re not letting Americans get treatment in America for this,” www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/t... via @statnews.com

Great piece from @gostin.bsky.social. Ebola survival under 50% is common, but of the 11 Ebola patients treated in the US so far, 9 (82%) survived! Being denied treatment at Emory or Nebraska could be a death sentence to US aid workers who get infected. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/the-...

Thanks to everyone who came to #fanexpo Denver yesterday for CBH Director @mattwynia.bsky.social and his co-panelist's session on bioethics issues in Apple TV hit shows #Severance and #Pluribus! #hivemind #bioethics #teamcarol #waffleparty #lumon #praisekier #CUAnschutz @cuanschutz.bsky.social

"As one researcher, who declined to be named due to fears of retaliation, put it, “even in a world that is on fire every day this is truly a five-alarm fire.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n... via @statnews.com

The administration's policy of "maximum selfishness" in addressing the Ebola outbreak doesn't just abdicate international leadership, it fundamentally disrespects American medicine and treats Americans overseas as expendable. www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/t... via @statnews.com

"Leaving Americans in Africa rather than bringing them home is “a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own,”" It's also a thumb in the eye to American facilities and personnel. Do they think we can't safely care for patients with Ebola in the US? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

"There are many virological reasons that we won’t see airborne Ebola emerge. Let’s address the political reasons that Ebola is spreading and killing a lot of people now." open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Reminder: This is from RFK, Jr’s FDA. I wonder how he’ll respond… can he learn from new information that contradicts his priors? www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

These are hard decisions, so I'm sympathetic to officials who have to make tough calls. But still, the hypocrisy is SO rich for Jay Battacharya, now signing orders to imprison exposed people, since he was Dr. Liberty during the pandemic, when he wasn't in charge... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Our new temp US Surgeon General, Dr Haridopolos, has just 2 pubs so far (both published last month!) but they give me hope that she might be a much-needed voice of reason in HHS. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41967005/

“The bigger threat to human life, Roberts said, is not Ebola but the cuts to foreign aid broadly. USAID’s cuts have already caused, in his research-based estimate, some 300,000 additional deaths in the DRC.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/u...

“Public health policies that single out non-U.S. citizens won’t prevent viruses from crossing our borders. Diseases don’t recognize passports.” www.idsociety.org/news--public...

"When you pull billions out of the WHO and dismantle front line USAID programs, you gut the exact surveillance system meant to catch these viruses early," www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

“…our country has isolated itself without a clear benefit to the U.S. or the world, and pulled back on decades of human and other investments …[which] makes it much harder for us to apply our vast technical skills and expertise to solve problems like this one.” www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/para...

Is it just me? I fly @unitedcaredesk.bsky.social a lot. And I buy internet a lot. And it’s still sketchy, and not free. This ad campaign about some future when it’ll be solid, fast and free… really bugs me.

“Grappling with ambiguity, uncertainty and contradiction is exactly where the humanities excel, and exactly why A.I. can’t supplant the totality of medical care.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

“…why ethical doctors have an obligation to be active on social media. “If we’re not there, if we don’t have ethical evidence-based people out there, then social media is just gonna continue to be overrun by wellness influencers and bad actors,” www.statnews.com/2026/05/06/d...

"Such issues should be debated rigorously within the scientific process, not prematurely adjudicated in headlines." Couldn't agree more. They also shouldn't be prematurely decided by someone without relevant expertise based on a political agenda. wapo.st/4n2nrI5

"Why do people in authoritarian regimes take bold political actions — such as protesting, voting for the opposition, or criticizing the government — despite the threat of severe consequences? Her research highlights the role of emotions, particularly anger, in motivating these high-risk decisions.."

"Blanche does not appear to have *ever* received NIH funding for research [and] A search of PubMed, the federal database of biomedical and life sciences literature, also did not return *any* publications that list her as an author." Just, wow. www.statnews.com/2026/04/26/k... via @statnews.com

"Blanche began the M.D.-Ph.D. program at USAT [the University of Science, Art, and Technology, located in the Caribbean] in 2012 and completed it in 2015" Hmmm. Three years for an MD-PhD program??? www.statnews.com/2026/04/26/k... via @statnews.com

“According to data released by the NIH, proposals that scored in the top 10% were almost certainly funded in years past, but their odds of success amounted to a coin flip in 2025.” This is nuts. www.statnews.com/2026/04/30/n...

Chelsey Patten is opening the Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF) annual meeting today - a collaboration this year with our center at CU. Looking forward to deliberating on some of the most challenging ethical issues arising at the end of life.

“A year ago, in Mpongwe, there was one case like this each month, or maybe two. In January this year, there were 28 new cases; in February, 28 more…” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

There are certainly people in that photo op - I’m looking at you, Dr Oz - who know very well that both RFK Jr and the president are mathematically illiterate, but they all just smile and nod toward the dear leader.

“White House officials have refused to estimate the cost of the conflict so far, but two independent groups say the expense is staggering: between $28 billion and $35 billion, or just under $1 billion a day.”

Separate from winning or losing, it might be a toss-up as to whom this war has cost more… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

"...downplaying increased industrial [methyl]mercury exposure while elevating long-debunked claims about vaccine preservatives [that contain ethylmercury] sends a dangerous message: that public health decisions are no longer being made according to actual risk." www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

"The FDA claimed the anti-PD-1 drug...might have been the reason patients went into remission [but] “These are patients that hands down progressed on anti-PD-1.”... FDA’s demand for a control group [is] “completely unethical” since “they’re progressing on that treatment”" www.wsj.com/opinion/fda-...

"...moral reasoning develops through consequences...receiving honest feedback, having to accommodate reality as it actually is... It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn..."

"To be declared a genius at one thing is to begin to believe you are a genius at everything... [and once] everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all..." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Fascinating piece responding to recent talking points on the right that declining teen pregnancy rates are a "problem." www.statnews.com/2026/04/20/t... via @statnews.com

“The intermingling of corporations and atrocities goes back to the slave trade…But one thing does seem new…the absence of pretense…Trump…announce(s) genocidal intent on social media: He advertises his plans to take over sovereign countries…” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

How can the Trump administration be losing a propaganda war to Iran's extremist, theocratic, misogynistic and murderous regime? www.economist.com/culture/2026...

“Those of us in clinical medicine have heard for decades our executives tell us “no margin, no mission.” Obsessive search for margin also kills the mission, and leads to patient, family, and clinician suffering. We can and must do better.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“…it is particularly concerning that when they finally requested MAID, more than half died within a week, suggesting that access to MAID was much easier than access to specialist palliative care…” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

There are reasons this Old Testament thinking was updated in the New Testament. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

“While there certainly are more tools for identifying problems with research, critical thinking and editorial oversight were around in 2019.” www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

“Far too often, companies are suppressing unfavorable clinical trial results and keeping them secret from patients and the scientific community.” Yep. Please focus on this for a while. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

“The study of more than 1.5 million children born between 1997 and 2022 found no… link between acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy and autism in either general population (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.95-1.12) or sibling-matched analyses (HR 1.09, 95% CI 0.91-1.27)” www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

Can a person of sincere faith continue to support this man?

Look who is actually trying to implement "nanny state" programs to discourage us from eating certain foods... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

She was doing everything right and broke no laws, including no immigration laws. So much for the supposed turn toward targeted enforcement focusing on criminals. “Detaining doctors who are serving underserved populations is beyond reckless — it is cruel...” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...