The move to medicalize #grief is tied to normative and cultural expectations of when it should end. My review @psychologytoday.com of Barbara Blatchley’s insightful memoir, Sorrow’s Long Road: The Science of Grief, published today by @columbiaup.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

Why stopping meds abruptly is unwise and withdrawal symptoms are misrecognized. “How to Taper” — my interview @psychologytoday.com with deprescribing expert @markhoro.bsky.social #SSRIs #benzodiazepines #MedSky #Psychiatry www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

Why are several major world health agencies still mired in 19th-century ways of thinking about infectious disease? My review of @carlzimmer.com’s Air-Borne and other important new studies in @psychologytoday.com. #MedSky #LongCovid #CovidIsAirborne www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

Over the course of 13 years, Laura Delano was diagnosed with 8 different psychiatric disorders. For their treatment, she was prescribed 21 different psychiatric drugs. My review of her memoir of polypharmacy @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

Just a non-gentle reminder of this guy's past. People knew who he was and what he stood for. His resume was blatantly clear. Now, he is doing the same on a massive scale and with help.

"Thousands of employees returned to the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies..." apnews.com/article/fda-...

Exactly

I had to compose myself before posting—because this breaks a part of my soul. If you’re a contractor with a segregation policy, say it loud—so non-white dollars don’t fund your business. It won’t go how you think. And if anyone uncovers businesses doing this, put them on blast. #NAACP #BlackSky

rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

Over the course of 13 years, Laura Delano was diagnosed with 8 different psychiatric disorders. For their treatment, she was prescribed 21 different psychiatric drugs. My review of her memoir of polypharmacy @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

We know many of you have lived under malevolent, unhinged dictators before, but this is new for us. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

this guy’s distinguishing quality is his boundless contempt for anyone who voices the slightest disagreement with him. you can see in his voice and mannerisms that he thinks he’s better than everyone around him. (which to my mind is just compensation for his palpable self-loathing)

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

Chuck Schumer right now:

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Yes. The answer is yes.

One of the things Trumpism does is open the door for unintended consequences

Al Green after he was THROWN out of chambers: “I was making it clear to the President that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid” "It is the best way to get it across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility. " #SOTU

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

It was a hard speech to watch. But what came after was the worst part. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

US Supreme Court denied Trump's emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote was 5-4. Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts voted against him.

An engrossing and important new book on biomedical research by one of its most-cited authors, the distinguished Hungarian scientist Csaba Szabo, sounds the alarm on its replication crisis. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

Bill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommittee

You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.

RFK Jr’s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

RFK Jr finally recommends vaccination to deal with the measles outbreak hitting Texas right now. This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years. www.axios.com/2025/03/03/k...

These sites might be useful: 1. HealthMap – Real-time disease tracking system developed by Boston Children’s Hospital. (healthmap.org) 2. Global Incident Map – Displays disease outbreaks worldwide with alert notifications. (outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com)

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

After years of falsely claiming that MMR vaccines cause autism, RFK Jr. has published a new op-ed on Fox’s website encouraging people to get the vaccine amid a measles outbreak that has already resulted in the death of a school-aged child.

New from me: The measles outbreak in Texas is spiraling rapidly — but the CDC isn’t sending a strike team to get it under control. newrepublic.com/article/1921...

The accuracy of the political cartoons recently is incredibly painful.

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

An engrossing and important new book on biomedical research by one of its most-cited authors, the distinguished Hungarian scientist Csaba Szabo, sounds the alarm on its replication crisis. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side...

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science. Entire NIH departments will have no leaders. World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators. Is this what they want? Chaos? Destruction?

In its 60 years, Medicaid has grown from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash assistance to the largest source of public insurance, covering 72 million people. Here is where enrollment in the program is highest. nyti.ms/4intZxz

Breaking News: Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule, WIN55.212-2, that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Oh nothing just RFK Jr.’s organization telling people that measles does a body good. I need not drone on and on about the myriad reasons this is wrong, I assume. It’s been a long day, and I think you all already know this.

“This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen” www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Amanda Zurawski, one of the Texas women who nearly died due to the states abortion ban, has been named one of Time’s Women of the Year.

Tick... Tick... Tick... www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

UnitedHealth is under investigation by the Justice Department over its Medicare billing practices and how it records diagnoses

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...