Michael Atzmon

These DIY air purifiers could make clean air more accessible during wildfires As wildfires rage across the country, smoke plumes from scorched structures pose a major health threat. Sneaky particles can creep through vents and other home openings, but buying high-quality HEPA f...

Wildfire smoke is covering large areas of the US. Time to make a Corsi-Rosenthal Box. They work!
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran) on Threads Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

A picture is worth... (from the NY Times) www.threads.com/@luckytran/p...

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.

DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

How have we not got masks in healthcare? Why are teachers still told to wash their hands for airborne transmission. @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Labour promised to clean the air. What’s going on? Why the delay, the science is showing the opposite of UKHSA guidance. We need urgent action on this!

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.

Departing the New York Times I left to stay true to my byline

I wrote for The Contrarian about my decision to leave the New York Times contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

Line graph from FRED showing a steep increase in the number of labour force workers over 16 in the U.S. with a disability. There is a sharp increase from ~6 million in 2020 to close to 9 million in 2023

Something that keeps me up at night: The growing global number of people disabled by Covid & how they will be left further deserted as the climate crisis escalates

I’ve cared for infants who stopped breathing w/ pertussis.

School aged kids who died of flu or COVID.

And many of my patients can’t be vaccinated because they’re on chemotherapy or are immune compromised.

Vaccinations save lives of those who get them & those who cannot.

It’s that simple.

So you want us to believe that the following are part of a policy designed to protect UM reputation?? Disallowing a student vote, assaulting protesters, issuing misleading statements about the assault, firing an employee based on unverified allegations? Your "Rules and Order" are a sham 1/

And here we have a Regent of the University of Michigan publicly bullying a (Jewish, female) faculty member because she did not send out a public statement quickly enough to his liking--after she send him a private message of concern the moment she learned about the incident.

unfamiliar you are with faculty governance, which you and your fellow Regents have chosen not to engage with. For example, the Senate did not meet two days prior to your post. It typically meets at most once a year. SACUA under Professor Modrak have shown exemplary courage and leadership, 2/

First, the attack on your home was horrible. Every decent person finds it abhorrent. As professor Weineck points out, it takes time for SACUA to collectively draft a statement AND send it out, this happened much faster than in the past. Your list of grievances shows, more than anything else, how 1/

Telehealth Will Die In 3 Weeks Without Congressional Action Urgent action is needed to pass the Telehealth Modernization Act before it expires, ending telemedicine on Dec. 31. This would be devastating for disabled and rural patients.

The telehealth expansion is ending this month!

Thanks to @drjudystone.bsky.social for the interview on this & for sharing my words - and for linking to the letter campaign!

Sign onto it below. We have less than 3 weeks to save telehealth. You don't need to write an actual letter, b/c one...

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Welcome, all X refugees. 💕