We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines. But this work is now endangered. www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...

Trump slashed spending on clinical trials. The toll is starting to become clear. - The Washington Post

How would you like to be remembered? In honor of World Kindness Day, we revisit Fred Rogers' thoughtful perspective on empathy and why it matters both on and off screen.

My interview with Dr. Susan Monarez, former CDC Director, who was fired for doing her job, standing up for public health and science. Learn about her resilience and optimism. erictopol.substack.com/p/dr-susan-m...

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Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Useful resource for anyone interested in the importance of free speech: futurefreespeech.org/who-we-are/j...

His book and website are critically important for these times…check it out. futurefreespeech.org/who-we-are/j...

"St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will close its labor and delivery unit next month... "The closure is one of Georgia's first casualties of the GOP budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the 'big beautiful bill'... www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rura...

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

"The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair," Gisela Salim-Peyer writes of her experience growing up in Venezuela:

A tenet of Fascism is keep repeating lies and people will become so confused about what is the truth that they’ll start to believe them. We all have a responsibility to keep repeating the truth in the face of politically-motivated lying. Don’t just roll your eyes, speak up.

Well, based on the horror show of yesterday, looks like this best seller from 1840s is coming back. 😳 collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:...

The Unchecked, Unbalanced Reign of King Donald www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Love thy neighbor.

Welcome to the Lysenko Era in American Public Health and Healthcare. The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Opinion | Bad medicine - The Washington Post

As Troops Walk the Streets, Washington Restaurants Report a Slump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/d...

One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

We just learned about a 3rd dimension of how Covid can affect our arteries. erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-and-...

The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I am a Navy Vet @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social - and I agree.

Donald Trump "isn’t just deploying America’s military into the streets; he’s deploying it into the American culture war." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/o...

Trump’s Domestic Deployments Are Dangerous. For the Military. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/o...

Nice job Neville… Trump drops ceasefire demand for Ukraine war, tells allies Putin wants land

Opinion | Cartoon by Matt Davies - The Washington Post LOL…

The CDC has not provided a SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance update for 6 weeks. That is unacceptable

Another sad day.

Graduation at the UIC HPE 25th annual conference. Amazing group of individuals and presentations.

Young children who receive SNAP live longer, earn more and stay out of jail at greater rates than those who do not. Yet big changes to the food-benefit programme are coming

Nice, partial timeline of CBME in U.S. with primary focus on UME.

The AAMC-AACOM-ACGME Foundational Competencies being presented at COPAEM 2025.

Competency-Based Medical Education at the Front Lines of Patient Care | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Wonderful panel at COPAEM 2025 discussing the importance of simulation. Great quote: Simulation is not just about learning something new, but also using Sim to continuously get better (e.g. like pilots!) as a lifelong practice

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Social Security recipients set to face an $18,000 benefit cut in just 7 years - Axios

Thread: very tough meeting today at NPR about the future of public media. Three takeaways. 1. My colleagues are amazing ethical remarkable journalists and humans. Seriously the best of the best. The fact that some in our society are fighting to smear *these* people is a red flag. Pay attention. 1/

Action is therapy. Sorrow is an expression of love. Good work heals. Connection is strength. Beauty is resistance. Joy is subversive. Facts are bones, meaningful work is muscle.

The World’s Best and Brightest Are Moving, but Not to America www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...

Welcome…you all make America a better place.

I’m a Pediatrician. I’m Afraid of Diseases I Thought I’d Never See. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

Simply gross and depraved.

The cover of this week's @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Really Depressing. Dr. Andrea Benin, in the aftermath of the fraudulent Wakefield autism study, found 20 years ago early signs of this problem. Link here: publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...