"Each person plucked from their day-to-day existence left a whole life behind. There are shoes by the front door and an empty bed. There’s a car in the driveway and a job undone. There are pets that need feeding, bills that keep arriving and leases with months left to pay."
Maryland’s attorney general alleged that conditions at a federal immigration facility in Baltimore are dangerous and unsanitary, with dozens of people crammed into a single, cold cement room for days with no bedding, no showers and one toilet.
"The episode is emblematic of how much Mr. Trump and his advisers misjudged how Iran would respond to a conflict that the government in Tehran sees as an existential threat." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
The former dean is retiring though I suppose he might still land somewhere else. The dept chair will relinquish admin roles while remaining at Columbia (at least for now). Don't know about disciplines and med board. Institutional "culture of silence" probably isn't going anywhere.
"Two prominent doctors at Columbia University & NY-Presbyterian Hospital stepped down on Tuesday following the release of a report that found that the institutional culture discouraged reporting allegations of sexual abuse against a former physician who sexually assaulted hundreds of patients."
This is the most bizarre interaction I've ever had with an HHS spokesperson.
From my story on CDC's pivot to "shared-decision making" for vaccines, with insight from @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social and @jakescottmd.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/why-rf...
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
Water creates a whirlpool as it swirls down a drain - a metaphor for the accelerating drain of scientific talent from the U.S.
The third part of my CytoSource series on the effect of Trump administration policies and funding cuts on #cancer research focuses on brain drain: not only the loss of existing talent but also a disruption of the entire talent pipeline. 🧪 1/4
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“People in Silicon Valley are spooked. They know, by their own admissions, that they are toying with an extremely dangerous technology. It’s not a big surprise that conscientious people regularly leave sounding shaken.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Not-for-profit Mayo Clinic reports record profit last year" 🤔 www.startribune.com/mayo-clinic-...
"Martinez is believed to be the first of three US citizens who have been fatally shot by federal immigration agents during President Donald Trump's second term." www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Detainees struggle to obtain medication and health care, lose concerning amounts of weight because of a lack of food, and live in fear of private security guards known to use force to put down disturbances." apnews.com/article/suic...
The number of people employed at the NIH is at its lowest level in at least two decades.
Hear from six scientists run out by Trump and the work they left behind on cancer research, tick-borne diseases, and more.
Me + @k-hought.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org for @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...
"Prasad is only the latest in a series of dramatic departures by top officials at the Trump administration’s FDA."
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
UC takes one for the team as Vinay Prasad leaves FDA and returns to UCSF. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/h...
"The official, who spoke on the condition that his name not be used, called it a 'failed therapy'.... Dr. Prasad is an oncologist on leave from U.C.S.F." 🤷 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/h...
"It was a small chemistry setup. I wouldn't describe it as anything more complex than a sixth-grade science lab." abc7.com/post/irvine-...
"The findings show that excited delirium often enters evidentiary proceedings as a contested medical concept. Yet, through the machinations of the law of evidence, these claims exit courtroom proceedings as legally relevant facts." harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
"Security officials in the Middle East and in Europe have raised concerns that the U.S. is unleashing forces that could spill across borders, disrupt global trade and lead to asymmetric terrorist attack reprisals..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
"Trujillo was diagnosed with ALS in 2017, and his family later discovered the Seattle clinic through its online marketing, which promoted stem cell treatments for a range of serious medical conditions, including ALS." www.king5.com/article/news...
A screenshot of a large group of people facing a heavily damaged building. A few of them are scaling the rubble. A headline reads: "Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School" Photo by IRIB TV, via Agence France-Presse
During the U.S.-Israeli attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group. trib.al/y3MsQLC
"Dozens of people, probably most of them children, were killed in a strike that hit a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran, according to Iranian health officials and state media." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
"US-Israeli air strikes killed at least 85 people at a girls’ school in southern Iran, Iran's judiciary said." www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...
"A King County jury on Thursday awarded $24 million to the family of a Colorado man who died after receiving a stem cell injection at a Seattle clinic in 2019." The same business was sued by the WA AG for deceptive marketing of unproven stem cell interventions. mynorthwest.com/local/colora...
“Once inside the apartment, it became clear they had misrepresented themselves. A public safety officer arrived, asked multiple times for a warrant, which was not produced, and asked for time to call his boss, which was not given. The agents took our student.” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
"It took a bit, but then the gasp of realization: They were looking at 'Gugusse and the Automaton,' a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company." blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...
On immigration: "I often am asked to speak as an economist. And what we should never lose sight of is that each of us is a moral being. And you, as I, have to decide how we feel about this form of rhetoric."
"It’s the second settlement in lawsuits filed by the estate that accused biomedical businesses of reaping rewards from a racist medical system that took advantage of Black patients like Lacks." apnews.com/article/henr...
