The urgency is real—but the “Most Favored Nation” drug pricing policy is unlikely to deliver lasting reform. In @jama.com, @eddiecliff.bsky.social and I propose accelerating and strengthening Medicare drug price negotiation to align prices with value. 🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New in @jama.com: The 2025 “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) drug pricing policy rightly captures the necessary urgency in lowering US drug costs—but is likely to face fierce opposition. We propose accelerating & improving on Medicare drug price negotiation. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New in @jama.com: The 2025 “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) drug pricing policy rightly captures the necessary urgency in lowering US drug costs—but is likely to face fierce opposition. We propose accelerating & improving on Medicare drug price negotiation. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The House of Representatives is voting into the night on a massive House Resolution (HR) 1 that will result in 16 million losing healthcare coverage (~11 million on Medicaid, and ~5 million from ACA marketplaces). Call your Congressperson's office tonight and tell them to vote NO!

The American Medical Association President Dr. Bobby Mukkamala. @ama-assn.org 💥Medicaid patients will lose access to care if the OBBBA is adopted.💥

We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

A coalition of all 50 state medical associations, representing hundreds of thousands of physicians and their 80 million Medicaid patients, joined to demand that Congress protect #Medicaid from the devastating $880 billion proposed cuts. (link to letter below) www.cmadocs.org/Portals/CMA/...

Nice to see the AMA finally off the sidelines fighting for #Medicaid! Proposed changes (work reqs, cuts, red tape) threaten coverage for millions—esp in rural & underserved areas. Lawmakers must hear us: these cuts would be devastating! #MedicaidIsHealthCare searchlf.ama-assn.org/letter/docum...

Viewpoint in JAMA details the consequences of the proposed cuts to NIH: ❌15% reduction in new therapies ❌reduction in life expectancy by 83M life years in the US = $8.2T ❌loss of $51B in economic output annually All to save $20B annually. The math ain't mathin.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In a new @bloodadvances.bsky.social study, @danafarber.bsky.social researchers led by @amarkelkar.bsky.social outline an ethical framework to allocate scarce gene therapies in blood cancers—aiming to balance fairness, need and outcomes. bit.ly/3YBdpTr

📢 My new @nejm.org article: "U.S. Research Leadership at a Crossroads" examines the proposed 15% cap on #NIH indirect cost rates (ICRs). This threatens the foundation of US medical research leadership. #NIHfunding 1/6 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

1/ The medical community is fighting back! In the Doctors for America lawsuit in DC, a judge has just ordered that at least for now, HHS, CDC, & FDA must restore public health webpages taken down. by midnight tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately. The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on ALL purchasing — including supplies for their ongoing research to treat cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and many infectious diseases.

Dictatorial political regimes always weaponize medical care against the people they target. Doctors have ethical obligations to their patients, but dictators do not care about these obligations. They care only about doctors' loyalty to the political regime. No paywall archive.ph/un1Lu

To put Trump's new crypto business into context, here is an illustrated guide we published on Friday that details the full range of apparent conflicts of interest as Trump enters the White House again. A good reference work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/....

Hello, #MedSky community! We’re excited to begin our Bluesky journey. Here is a sampling of the trusted, influential, and essential information you can expect when you follow us:

Thank you to everyone who shared their #ASH24 #ASHaiku 🙏🎉 Who else enjoys this tradition? Here's a thread of some of our favorites! 🧵 #HemeSky #Hematology

Part 2 on allogeneic stem cell transplantation for AML with The Fellow On Call pod dropped today! Hope y'all find it helpful! #BMTsm #AMLsm #MedSky #HemeSky open.spotify.com/episode/1CQM...

I swear we didn’t pose this 😆 but now all I can think of is the Spiderman pointing meme …

Glad to join The Fellow On Call crew to talk #BMTsm for AML on this week’s episode! The whole AML series has been excellent review! @ronakmistrydo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6BAs...

8 days ago, ASH decided to join Bluesky. 🌤️ So far, we're enjoying fewer distractions & more meaningful connections. 💬 Engaging with our amazing #hematology and #hemeonc communities has never been easier. We created an #ASH24 feed for you & we have more feeds coming soon: bit.ly/ASH24feed #Hemesky

📹 Make the most of the ASH Annual Meeting — here's what you need to know before you go! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGDX... Learn about registration hours and locations, download the #ASH24 app, & preview the virtual platform and the new food guide! 😋🍔Check your email. #HemeSky #Hematology

Happy Fellowship Match Day to all those who were applying this cycle! It’s always a nerve wracking time of year and I hope everyone got some clarity regardless of outcomes. For any inbound hematologists and oncologists, welcome!! #medsky #hemesky

Why did the banana go to the doctor? Because it wasn’t peeling well. Food jokes are funny, hunger is not. Join us in #HCWvsHunger 11/28-12/3 HCWvsHunger.org

Just out at JAMA Oncology, led by Parsa Erfani We review why many efforts to improve access to oncology medicines around the world have failed so far, especially compared to infectious diseases, & offer potential strategies to improve global pharmacoequity jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

And for more detail, check out the Perspective article by me, @akesselheim.bsky.social, and @wbfeldman.bsky.social. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

📣PORTAL is hiring! 📣 There are less than 2 weeks left to apply for our Postdoctoral and General Medicine Fellowships, both with a focus on pharmaceutical law, health policy, and health services research. Apply by December 1, 2024. Learn more: mailchi.mp/3e02f38a708b/portal-hiring-2025

New paper out at @jamacurrent.bsky.social led by @ojwouters.bsky.social on the empirical assumptions underlying differential protection for biologics & small-molecule drugs. Upshot: We found no good evidence supporting differential treatment by FDA (or under IRA). jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This is going to be looked back on as a highly ineffective statement, but it, like most of the society letters we’ve seen so far suffer most from not knowing who their audience is. Is the letter to the membership, the public, or the incoming administration?

First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

If you're new here and wondering how to get your feed going, check out the directory of all "starter packs", or lists of people you can follow in bulk. Try searching for your topic of interest and follow the ones you like blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Trying my hand at a starter pack. #OncSky #MedOnc #womeninoncology #HemeOnc #hemeSky #MedSky go.bsky.app/4pWmu3W

Looking for medical professionals to follow? Just added the 6th installment *Medsky Sanguine Six* #medsky 🩺🧪 Round 1 go.bsky.app/Qg2TA9p Round 2 go.bsky.app/9ziyYqt Round 3 go.bsky.app/9WQtZh6 Round 4 go.bsky.app/HRaNhEt Round 5 go.bsky.app/DvGjDh6 Round 6 go.bsky.app/TzRhec3

My statement on Trump's nomination of RFK Jr. & Mehmet Oz to lead federal health agencies HHS and CMS. #science