An article in @jama.com finds that having patients use a decision tool results in less discontinuation and improved depressive and anxiety symptoms at 24 weeks. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Congratulations to @acpimphysicians.bsky.social for naming LeRoi Hicks, MD, MPH, MACP as the American College of Physicians' next CEO/EVP. This is great news in the midst of tough time!! www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...

The wholesale hollowing-out of #AHRQ continues... @societygim.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social

So from what I understand, *ALL* #AHRQ NOFOS are now terminated. None active, none forecasted. The administration effectively “quiet” shutdown the entire Agency… #AHRQ #HHS #HSR #Healthcare

Good thing #AHRQ doesn’t fund anything important, right? Let’s see here, they just: “…produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and… make sure that evidence is understood and used.” And no other funding agency does this. Huh.

Update 3/16: A very small handful of NIH apportionments have come through — with big exceptions. The ones that OMB has approved are all Congressionally mandated/earmarked. The broad discretionary funds that fund most NIH grants not yet been authorized. (1/2)

Working on a NIH multiyear funding tracker... This looks at the amount of multiyear funding (grants having a budget period 366 days or longer) for new and competitive renewal awards divided by the total amount of new and competitive renewal award funding over the same period. 1/5

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

More not good a week later. AHRQ funding opportunities for Diagnostic Safety, Health Services Research cancelled. A reminder that #AHRQ, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, is the only part of HHS strictly dedicated to studying and improving health care delivery.

Corrected URL/DOI: doi.org/10.1093/ofid...

Just ran into this for some reason… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26362436/

We LOVEEEEEE Dr. Szostak. He's wonderful and I was delighted to see him on the speaker list in Chicago.

“Data doesn’t change minds” Still, in two figures, reminders that: - During peaks between 2020 and early 2022, 10 to 25 thousand Americans were dying weekly from COVID - There was good RCT data that COVID vaccines work in 2020

My day at #standupforscience in DC was truly inspiring

Shortly after his office refused to meet with me, nearly one thousand career researchers across NIH campuses signed onto a letter to Director Bhattacharya and delivered it to his office asking him to meet with our union and address the same healthcare issue I asked him about it.

Thank you @standupforscience.bsky.social Chicago!!

A quick email before I head of to get ready for the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally. 1/3

Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Fun to see @standupforscience.bsky.social on local news here in Chicago last night! If you squint you can see me speaking at least year's rally. I'll be up there again today, Federal Plaza at 1PM! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

"There is something epic about being on the receiving end of the fury of a tyrant, especially when that fury is brought about by a refusal to be his vassal." An exquisite essay by Spanish journalist & writer Paco Cerdà in @nytimes.com. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

AHRQ has been hit even harder than NIH. They have no grant making staff at all.

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities. But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham. It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why: 🧵1/

While it can feel good to approach the situation that way, it's not what research shows is an effective way of communicating, building trust, or engendering belief and behavior change. If we want people to follow the science on vaccines, we should also follow the science on how to communicate

The PCC joined more than 255 orgs in signing onto the annual Friends of AHRQ appropriations letter urging Congress to fully fund the AHRQ at $500 million in FY27 and ensure that the agency has sufficient staff to manage its obligations. Read the letter ⬇️ thepcc.pub/fundahrqletter

This study of nearly 1 million US households from 2000 to 2023 found racial disparities in #FoodInsecurity among both higher- and low-income groups, highlighting the continued role of structural racism and the value of federal nutrition programs. ja.ma/4sqtSpI

This isn't good. AHRQ Funding Opportunities for Primary Care, Demonstration and Dissemination, and Health Services Research cancelled. A reminder that #AHRQ, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, is the only part of HHS strictly dedicated to studying and improving health care delivery.

#SGIM26 Annual Meeting spotlight: Dr. Sondra Zabar, Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine & a leader in MedEd innovation. Her work in simulation & performance-based assessment is transforming clinician training. 🗓 Thursday Plenary ⏰ 10:45 AM–12:30 PM buff.ly/UNI8EE0 #SGIM #MedEd

You can 100% do high-quality, controlled research about patients’ perceived mistreatment in healthcare. In fact, we should. It’s a major barrier to keeping all Americans healthy. Watch Dr. Green’s video!

Made a short video as a response. 3 questions remain for me. 1) What is the definition of a "DEl activity," and how is it being communicated to NIH staff so they can determine whether a grant qualifies? (Continued below)

This is a hard read and WAY beyond the pale, but not totally surprising as a lot of medicine is set up to make/chase money. See the “executive health” and concierge practices affiliated with all our institutions. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

its fun how we elect congress to use its unique constitutional powers to appropriate money for explicit purposes and the WH just* says nah *illegally

And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

The @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social team asked some tough questions of NIH Director Bhattacharya. It's worth a listen: substack.com/home/post/p-... I wanted to add some additional context on Bhattacharya's responses. Sorry, long thread. 🧵1/19

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

Below is the response to my question. The funny part of his response is that my research needed a control arm. My study actually did have a control arm (about 80% of the sample never reported discrimination). So the answer itself makes me even more confused.

JUST as Apple Music thought I should listen to "Message in a Bottle"

"Root Causes" Indeed. Let's help Americans address them.

Where is @mdaware.org's evergreen post about "don't trust that multibillion dollar industry! Trust OUR multibillion dollar industry!!"?

@journalgim.bsky.social has been crushing it lately.

The fundamental flaw with @holdenthorp.bsky.social’s argument is thinking that organizations and people can only do one thing at a time (even though he is really close to acknowledging it!) Let’s break it down, bc I’m tired of this. 🧵 (cred: @ianlmorgan.bsky.social)

Just like this post, the Canadian Men's and Women's Hockey Team had one too few saves. (Very fond of our neighbors to the north 😉)

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Can we PLEASE stop calling them “hallucinations.” A hallucination is a false sensory perception. LLMs don’t *perceive* anything. These are “CONFABULATIONS.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

For a less important thought: “Liquid I.V.” is the stupidest name for a product I may have ever heard. Somehow, it’s simultaneously redundant AND incorrect.

Folks are asking a really good question about age cutoffs for colorectal cancer screening, suggesting it should be younger. A lot of rigorous and thoughtful work by experts goes into designing guidelines. It might seem that everyone should get a FIT test, but there are risks involved in this.

Shout out to Dr. Mary McDermott who was the first author of a study published in @jama.com about how certain medication doesn’t help people with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) which’ll further impair walking performance. Read here: https://ow.ly/a7Nc50YbMC4