Here's our new article reporting findings from stakeholder interviews in which we hoped to learn what it takes to successfully complete rigorous confirmatory studies after accelerated approval. Instead, we mostly heard willingness to trade rigor for feasibility. 1/ academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Most early attention on the H-1B EO imposing a $100k fee is focused on the tech industry (i.e., good story by @joshwingrovebbg.bsky.social and Spencer Soper) www.bloomberg.com/news/article.... However, this policy will have a huge impact on healthcare delivery systems and research enterprise (1/2)

"Climate change is no longer a problem for our grandchildren but is inflicting profound economic and health damage right now.” @markgongloff.bsky.social

Kudos to @fda.gov leadership for following through on their efforts to promote transparency by posting CRLs for 2024 pending or withdrawn product applications. There is a lot that scientists, industry and clinicians can learn when FDA does not approve a product www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/fda-...

Great reporting on RFK "going wild" by sabotaging the @altcdc.altgov.info @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Florida Made a Vaccine Mistake. Now, It’s Everyone’s Problem. Agree with @lisamjarvis.bsky.social, viruses don’t give a damn for state lines www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Great story by @annaedney.bsky.social ... reminds me of what happened with Essure, as patients complaints went unheeded for years

"The American scientific enterprise is being unravelled before our eyes—research grants are being cut off, satellites disconnected, reports cooked up [by] particular industries and ideologies ... but in the end, the truth will [win] out." @billmckibben.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“Physicians receiving payments were more likely to prescribe the company's drugs, with a stronger association for payments that were larger, sustained and recent.” New work on bribes to Rx multiple sclerosis drugs by Sayed, @reshmagar.bsky.social @jsross119.bsky.social

"In a world accustomed to receiving real-time information, the process of publishing medical research remains trapped in a system designed for a slower era,” per @jsross119.bsky.social & colleagues from @utoronto.ca Med in @annalsofim.bsky.social www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... #peerreview

Amazing data visualization illustrating how Grier family manipulated science to ‘prove’ vaccines cause autism. Key take-home: "those who claim to champion people with autism are denying them real research while undermining one of public health’s greatest achievements" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The EPA's disastrous plan to end the regulation of greenhouse gases & just let climate change run rampant. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... via @elizkolbert.bsky.social

1. On February 24, Extremity Care LLC, a company that sells very expensive bandages made from placentas, donated $5 MILLION TO TRUMP'S SUPER PAC Days later, Trump froze a pending rule that would BAR MEDICARE FROM COVERING EXTREMITY CARE'S PRODUCTS, which are overpriced & not backed by science.

"The esteemed climate scientist Michael Mann said the report was akin to the result he would expect “if you took a chatbot and you trained it on the top 10 fossil fuel industry-funded climate denier websites”." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

"If the US is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. America’s technology sector might lose its creativity. But science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state."

A singular achievement in reporting and storytelling: The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison, by @propublica.org and partners.

High brand-name drug prices fall once a generic enters the market. In a new @journalgim.bsky.social article, Ravi Gupta, CRRIT Co-Director @jsross119.bsky.social, and colleagues from @portalresearch.org assess associations between patents, revenue, and generic competition.

You cannot make this stuff up! @muskwatch.bsky.social reports that Musk's $9b neurotechnology company self-certified as a "small disadvantaged business", despite his >$400b net worth, and federal regs precluding designation to individuals with a net worth >$850k www.muskwatch.com/p/musks-neur...

988 contacts continue to grow; however, significant legislative changes to Medicaid are expected to result in less coverage and funding with implications for access to broader mental health services. www.kff.org/policy-watch...

Here is the full letter Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, sent to colleagues: www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

An incredibly sobering must-read piece by @peopledoctor.bsky.social in @newyorker.com on how the OBBA will impact children, especially those who get seriously ill, through Medicaid cuts, diminishing one of America's most important anti-poverty programs www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“Trump’s law doesn’t protect Medicaid. It requires Americans to spend hundreds of millions of hours a year filling out tedious, unnecessary paperwork. It will cause millions to lose their health coverage, limiting access to care and forcing them into debt.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Even @wsj.com is reporting (accurately) that millions of Americans will lose Medicaid coverage not because of lack of eligibility, but because of cumbersome paperwork, bureaucratic hurdles and noncompliance www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Making Measles Great Again, or why should not be surprised that promoting vaccine misinformation, undermining vaccine science, and defunding our public health infrastructure has resulted in the largest number of measles cases in more than 30 years @juddlegum.bsky.social popular.info/p/making-mea...

Illuminating set of graphics, showing how much public health and science funding has been cut, and from which agencies, and why Americans will be sicker and more at risk because of the Administration’s actions www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

For the few years I've been covering jobs reports, and one sector typically rises above the rest, quietly hiring by the thousands: Health care. How taking care of humans became the biggest employer in America, and what it means for the rest of us: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous. Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

"Maybe you imagine that you yourself won’t suffer from this new reign of bigotry and imagine that everyone you care about is similarly safe. But if that’s what you think, you’re likely to face a rude awakening." @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

We are just beginning to figure out how wildfire smoke affects humans, such as whether effects are worse for the young or primarily impact the lungs (or also affects heart disease, fertility, and memory disorders), meanwhile, events only grow more common www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Low enrollment, high costs, a backlog of more than 5,000 applications: Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program — the only one in the nation — offers a window into how the GOP’s nationwide proposal could impact your state 👇

Great in-depth coverage of several communities' experiences with measles outbreaks, reflections on misinformation and distrust, and vaccine safety www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Proud to celebrate our Yale NCSP 2025 graduates! 🎉 Their leadership & commitment to improving healthcare will make a real difference. #NCSP #YaleNCSP @carygross.bsky.social @reshmagar.bsky.social @jsross119.bsky.social @ebronurse.bsky.social

Approximately 16 million people, ~6% of the non-Medicare eligible U.S. population, will lose health insurance coverage with passage of the Big Beautiful Bill Act, so that tax cuts for the wealthy can be extended. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

One-fifth of generic cancer drugs, nearly all manufactured in India but used around the world, failed quality tests. Most had too little of the compound listed on the label, some too much. Both scenarios are bad: either drugs don't work or are toxic www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/g... via @statnews.com

it is absolutely wild how @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com are failing to cover the NSF and NASA destruction this week I know it's not the reporters' fault, either. their editors don't want them covering boring stories like the DOGEing of our scientists

Great Mukherjee piece in @newyorker.com on the challenges of evaluating cancer screening tests, a primer on diagnostic performance (sensitivity and specificity) & lead-time and length-time bias, and what it all means for cell-free-DNA assays #medsky #publichealthsky www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A must must-read by @billmckibben.bsky.social on the interlocking nature of the science, economics, & politics of our climate crisis, where we really are today, and why its the biggest story on planet earth, esp if you like breakfast (and thus the folly of America) open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

“If international medical graduates can’t start their medical residencies on time on July 1, the ramifications are so far-reaching that it is really unconscionable,” said Kimberly Pierce Burke, executive director of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers.”

Terrific piece on the dismissal of every member of CDC's ACIP committee, with good quotes from @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social. The Secretary has repeatedly lied by alleging that 97% of members have undisclosed conflicts. And as noted below, some financial relationships are allowed (and then managed)

Things are very bad for U.S. vaccination policy these days and are only going to get worse. In @nejm.org, I examine the recent news about COVID-19 vaccines and ACIP, what likely lies ahead, and what the medical and public health communities should do to lessen the damage www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Great study in @jamahealthforum.bsky.social: from 2005-2019, share of dialysis facilities operated by 2 largest chains ↑ from 59% to 77%, share with physician owners ↑ from 11% to 29%, with higher prices and medical director compensation in monopoly markets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If ivermectin was good enough to be rejected by mainstream doctors as a cure for COVID, health-care skeptics seemed to reason, then surely it must have a host of other uses too. Benjamin Mazer investigates: