Need a reminder of what American science can accomplish? Go watch "Apollo 13" My latest essay with Bapu Jena for Random Acts of Medicine on some of the lessons readily gleanable from the classic film, now 30 years old www.randomactsofmedicine.com/p/need-a-rem...

My thoughts in this feature from @medscape.com on what is lost when we cut biomedical research funding www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

My latest with Bapu Jena for @time.com Ideas Series: time.com/7291563/big-...

For a written deep dive by the exceptional @kyracloudy.bsky.social Read “Apocalypse on the Runway: Revisiting the Tenerife Airport Disaster“ by Admiral Cloudberg on Medium: admiralcloudberg.medium.com/apocalypse-o...

Finally got around to finishing this rather fascinating book full of unusual research and findings in medicine. Very US-focussed, but particularly enjoyed the final chapters on public health and what can actually influence uptake etc. Random Acts of Medicine by @chrisworsham.com and Anupam B. Jena.

Proud of the work we did here exploring the effects of a quasi-random increase in gun availability on different varieties of gun violence, and thrilled to get a byline! Write-up in Times Ideas based on our study published BMJ:

The start of hunting season was associated with increased rates of hunting and non-hunting related firearm incidents in the US, finds this study, most plausibly because of the increased availability of firearms and ammunition www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Our latest piece for TIME Ideas, based on our new study time.com/7277814/gun-...

Our latest out today in @bmj.com finds increases in firearm incidents during the beginning of deer hunting season in the U.S.--both hunting realted AND non-hunting related firearm incidents--using data from the Gun Violence Archive. www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Very interesting and insightful perspective on whether zoster vaccines reduce dementia risk from @chrisworsham.com and Bapu Jena t.co/EBUyx3kRbT

"In an age where data are collected in nearly every aspect of our lives, troves of natural experiments in health care are waiting to be uncovered—as long as researchers have the opportunity and resources to find and analyze them." Our latest for TIME Ideas: time.com/7275048/shin...

Shingles vax appears to prevent dementia! Our Nature paper is first of many from my group to show this. We use a really neat natural experiment to provide causal (not just correlational!) evidence. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...; video (👏 @DrMayaAdam): bit.ly/4ciRfLh

If the CDC plans to dedicate resources to do a vaccine safety study, it should do so in a way that results can be trusted by mainstream scientists & skeptics alike. I write with Bapu Jena in TIME Ideas about an approach called "adversarial collaboration" time.com/7272138/cdc-...

Medicare's competitive bidding program for oxygen services brought down costs for pts with COPD, but the program is not a good fit for all oxygen needs, as I write in @jama.com Internal Medicine on the SOAR Act, a bill sponsored by @klobuchar.senate.gov & Bill Cassidy jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Our latest piece for TIME Ideas, based on findings from a new study out in JAMA Internal Medicine about mortality among health care workers. TIME: time.com/7261514/fema... JAMA IM: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Congress must decide if it will extend Medicare telehealth coverage beyond March 2025. Our new JAMA IM study shows how this may benefit Medicare patients + taxpayers. TLDR: Telemedicine ⬇️ some low-value test use + spending (eg,onsite EKGs,blood tests) + ⬇️ total visit spending. shorturl.at/w6l5l

Physicians & most health care occupations carry lower mortality rates than the general population. Yet our analysis out today (led by Vishal Patel, link 👇), taking advantage of new data linking jobs to death records, revealed some surprising patterns among our ranks jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🚨New paper🚨The emergency department (ED) is like a box of chocolates; you never know which doc you're gonna get. What happens when you get a doc that admits patients more often? Are you less likely to die? @stephencoussens and I explore this question in @JAMAInternalMed.🧵1/

Check out our new piece (with video!) in @time-magazine.bsky.social, about how science is often used to justify someone’s values, rather than inform tradeoffs based on those values, in debate on health issues (More to come with @time-magazine.bsky.social Ideas, too!) time.com/7198764/scie...

I never would have thought that my love for both pulmonology and Christmas Vacation could overlap, but thanks to the Osterland family of Wadsworth, Ohio, they do! A tribute to the classic movie that supports cystic fibrosis research www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/u...

Check out this great writeup in @planetmoney.bsky.social by @elliswonk.bsky.social about our working paper and the types of cognitive biases that might be affecting medical care surrounding various holidays--or really any day www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Beep beep! Which occupations are associated with the lowest risk of death from Alzheimer's disease? Check out our analysis in @bmj.com Christmas Issue with some interactive graphics to explore links between Alzheimer's and navigational jobs 🚕🚑✈️🚢🚌 www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Our working paper out in @nberpubs.bsky.social: can we take advantage of Halloween to study the role of diagnostic subjectivity at the pediatrician?

Oh my

Online dissemination of scientific research (at least how @altmetric.com defines it) changed dramatically over just one month. Eyeballing this plot, it looks like there was both a shift from Twitter/X to @bsky.app and an addition/awakening of sharing here that was not happening previously. #medsky

This is awesome! Can’t think of a better way to test this out than by sharing our Barbie movie study, where we found that Google searches about gynecologists spiked following the film’s release, with its closing joke about Barbie’s health care jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hello, Bluesky! We've finally started building out our starter pack for our ATS member community. If you're a current or former member, let us know and we will add you. go.bsky.app/GLzJtqT #medsky #lungsky #pedsky

A nice read to brighten your day: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/m...

You should read these. Also you should buy them. @drjessigold.bsky.social @ranaawdish.bsky.social @therealdoctort.bsky.social @weselymd.bsky.social @chrisworsham.com

Our book, "RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape our Health," is now available in every format: paperback, hardback, ebook, and audiobook (narrated by us)! Check it out here, along with our newsletter!👇 #MedSky open.substack.com/pub/randomac...