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My primary aim throughout my career involves guiding clients, friends, everyone I know toward improved evidence-based decisionmaking. Strategist, consultant, board member, patient advocate. UChicago, Simmons Univ alum. #AI #healthcare #MediaLiteracy
"Russian flu," the pandemic that hit in 1977, bears an evolutionary signature of having emerged from a lab, perhaps as part of a failed vaccine effort. Covid, mpox, Ebola, and other influenza pandemics don't. Here's my story on a new way to trace the origins of pandemics. Gift link: nyti.ms/46N0W33
I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...
...maybe there wasn't much planning?
This month is 40 years since @julierovner.bsky.social began reporting on health policy in Washington.
To mark the anniversary, Rovner speaks with two longtime sources to discuss what has — and has not — changed since 1986.
I credit @hjluks.bsky.social for explaining this to me years ago via his blog. Still, fellow tennis players look at me with horror when I say that I hope to never need to have an MRI.
And it's not just cervical cancer it can prevent. It can also prevent oral cancer, which is often caused by HPV.
My statement on President Trump's Strikes on Iran:
Republican and former Trump Surgeon General Jerome Adams comes out again Casey Means nomination. She is unqualified. Full stop.
This piece by Elizabeth Ginexi is a must read. Trump, Vought, RFK and Bhattacharya are destroying the NIH simply ignoring the law and the US Congress. It’s illegal and immoral. The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
A US-based company has never been declared a supply chain risk. The decision by the Pentagon to use this tactic against Anthropic will almost certainly end up in court: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
December '24, an episode called "Seeds of Doubt" which warned of a then nominated for the job to head HHS, RFK Jr., and the dangers that lie ahead should he be confirmed.
All of this should and could have been avoided. bit.ly/4aICemY
Remorse won't fix the damage, but it can stop it from continuing
“When you get diarrhea after you go to the dentist, you don’t call your dentist. You go to the hospital or ER. My mother was dead for three weeks before her dentist knew.”
www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
I deleted my account not long after Musk took over, but recently noted that someone/some bot is using my photo & a misspelled version of my account name (one 'l' in my last name).
This is a fascinating history of innovation, and it’s another reason why our state is winning the race to unlock the potential of quantum science.
You never know whether these right-wingers will come off as belligerent or wildly disingenuous. This guy opted for the latter. I agree that Brooke did a great job of exposing his many hypocrisies, although he didn't seem to care.
New at Media Nation: Politico's Mass. Playbook is coming to an end, and its reporter, Kelly Garrity is taking her talents to The Boston Globe. #journalism dankennedy.net/2026/02/20/p...
Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...
President Trump required hospitals to post their prices online to help patients shop. But it’s mostly hospitals and insurers using the data, as fodder for contract negotiations.
“There’s no evidence that patients use this information,” said one health economist.
@dariustahir.bsky.social reports ⤵️
There’s nothing grassroots about the American Right.
It’s a top-down, money-driven model of social and political change:
Seize power, then build—or at least mimic—legitimacy later
#medsky you need to know that HHS released a Medicaid dataset today, with your NPI in it, linked to procedure codes and volume
The SAVE act is anti-American & anti-democracy. I’m furious that it passed the House.
It’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Voter fraud is rarer than rare—and when it does occur, it’s often MAGA trying to illegally tip the scale.
On the new "Beat the Press," we look at Don Lemon's arrest, when journalists should (and shouldn't) use the word "murder," looming cuts at the WashPost and transitions for Scot Lehigh and David Brooks. With Emily Rooney, Scott Van Voorhis and me — plus a big assist from producer Tonia Magras.
Wow! Borchardt's list of authors he represented recalls my undergrad years as a French lit major. You're included in a v exclusive list, Anne.
"If we really are in the 'post-traffic' era, then we need to think about building more direct lines of communication with our audience to ensure they see our stories, as well as create derivative products from those investigations." www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/in-m...
Selective silencing of the CDC:
~50% of surveillance databases have halted updates
—87% of these were vaccine related
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
editorial www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Alex Pretti remembered by health care workers at a Minneapolis vigil as a ‘stand-up guy’ www.statnews.com/2026/01/26/a... via @statnews.com
We don't always go out of our way to buy updated copies of trade books, but in this case, it is probably a good idea to get the new edition. #medlibs 📚
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/sid...
Must Read: How a meme became state policy then kinetic reality in less than a year thenerve.co/story/report...
