Six Tailored Keynote Narratives Shaping Healthcare's Future
This conference season, I work with six keynote narratives. I still customize each for every single event and audience, but the narratives (that I work on with a dedicated team for months) help tell a powerful story. Here they are: 01 How to Predict The Future of Healthcare (the big picture about healthcare's technological and cultural transformation) 02 Healthcare Needs a Trip to Mars (the focus is on the patient perspective) 03 Your AI Prescription (everything about healthcare AI) 04 How Will Generative AI Upgrade Healthcare (everything about generative AI) 05 Your Map to the Future (futures thinking in practical terms and examples) 06 The Evolution of Digital Health (an objective overview of digital health's key trends) More on this with examples and video: https://t.co/QZJKgOdVUj
AI Agents and Next‑Gen Alzheimer’s Drugs Beyond CRISPR
Endpoints' Drug Discovery Day is today — our own @RLCscienceboss will be talking about beyond CRISPR & future of Alzheimer's drugs I'm excited to talk with Stanford's @james_y_zou on his escalating research in building AI agents into co-scientists, labs, and now biotechs...
RVMD and ALLO Illustrate Biotech's Enduring Success Struggle
Why $RVMD & $ALLO are a microcosm of biotech's historic struggle for success. Some musings from me on @ApexOnco -> https://t.co/3lWgzQplvc
Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism; Genetics Prove It
Writing garbage in CAPS doesn’t make it true. Not only do we have overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines don’t cause autism, there’s also the complete lack of plausibility based on what we’ve learned about the >100 autism genes and how...
MRNA Nanoparticles Teach Beta Cells to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
As a medical school professor, I can tell you: what we've been doing for type 1 diabetes is managing, not curing. University of Chicago scientists just changed the game. They developed mRNA-loaded nanoparticles that deliver genetic instructions directly to insulin-producing beta cells,...
Elderly Can Harbor Amyloid Yet Remain Cognitively Normal
“ In this group of participants without clinically significant impairment, amyloid deposition was not associated with worse cognitive function, suggesting that an elderly person with a significant amyloid burden can remain cognitively normal.” Small sample size, but with numerous confirmatory studies...
Unexpected Lesson From an On‑call Hospital Night
A little break from talking about GLP-1s and obesity medicine. Here's a short story about when I was doing an on-call shift at the hospital a few years back:
Today's Teen Could Become First 150‑year‑old
David Sinclair says the first person to live to 150 is a teenager who's alive today. He's taken flak from colleagues for years over this prediction. He doesn't care. He still stands by it. "The first person to live to 150 has...
Advisory Committee Needed to Vet RP1/Replimmune Melanoma Data
I haven’t dug into the specifics of the RP1/Replimmune data in melanoma, but isn’t this an example of where a good old-fashioned Adcomm could help vet the data and overall risk-benefit? https://t.co/qAxtU9pUeF
Energy Levels Reveal Early Healthspan Decline Signals
Energy isn't just a feeling. It may be one of the earliest biological windows into healthspan decline. New from @BuckInstitute's Healthspan Horizons, led by @NathanPriceSci, exploring how mitochondrial function, sleep, glucose stability, and inflammation converge as early warning signals. This matters for...
Medical Debt Drives Suicide, Not Patient Non‑Compliance
Sixteen percent of suicides in the United States have medical debt as a contributing factor. We talk about patient non-compliance in medicine as if it is a behavioral problem. For a significant number of patients, it is a financial one....
Strength Training Beats Pills, Injections, Surgery for Knee OA
Knee Osteoarthritis: Thread Number 3 The most powerful intervention for knee osteoarthritis is not a pill, not an injection, and not a surgery. It's not PRP and certainly not stem cells. It is the muscle above and below the joint. If you...
Know Critical Pediatric Emergency Signs Every Parent Needs
Are #parents missing life-threatening signs in their children? #Paediatric emergencies every parent must know. https://t.co/ayQmCxSvsZ #research #healthcare #parenting
New Drug Boosts Survival for Platinum‑Resistant Ovarian Cancer
Combining a new drug with #chemotherapy extends the survival of platinum-resistant ovarian #cancer patients in #clinicaltrial https://t.co/JE4r8nISUq
Fatty Liver Affects 1.3B Now, 2B by 2050
1.3 Billion Globally Have Fatty Liver Disease; Numbers To Reach 2 Billion By 2050: Lancet Study https://t.co/DqKS8L0hCx #research #fattyliver #disease #health
Robotic Phlebotomy Achieves 94% Success, Low Complications
I've been following Vitestro for years. They have been developing robotic devices to collect patients' blood samples. They have big news now as the results of a multicenter ADOPT clinical trial have been published in Clinical Chemistry. That is the...
Preparing Trust for Hospital Telemedicine Robots Amid Physician Shortages
Imagine being a physician sitting in front of a laptop webcam while roaming around in a hospital as a telemedicine robot. What a cultural shock it would be! But now North Carolina hospitals are deploying the OhmniCare Telehealth Robot to facilitate...
Lab Success Doesn't Guarantee Real Cancer Drug Efficacy
Just a reminder. Killing cancer cells in a lab is very easy. Almost anything will kill cells. Even water (because of osmotic damage). Inside our bodies killing cancer cells is extremely hard for many reasons so things that kill...
100+ Signatures in Six Hours for Cover All Coloradans
In 6 hours there are over 100 signatures supporting Cover All Coloradans I’m so grateful to you all for taking the time to show your support for this critical program 🫶🏾
HHS Ignores Proven Environmental Triggers for Autism
Here’s my statement from @BakerInstitute @RiceUniversity @RiceUNews on why this was always a nonstarter, meanwhile HHS refuses to investigate the few actual know environmental exposures that do interact with autism genes https://t.co/pxLaDLInlf
FDA Introduces Standardized Framework for Gene Therapy Safety
New FDA guidance on evaluating the safety of gene therapies will establish a more predictable development process as these measures are implemented They provide a standardized, layered framework for uncovering off-target effects and other safety issues https://t.co/D7lsBeZybT
Exposing Antivaccine Rhetoric Masquerading as Real Science
1/n Here’s a thread on why this is nonsense. I think it’s important to debunk bc increasingly the antivaccine activists and their rhetoric are trying to sound more like real science even though it’s fake.
Patent‑Free COVID Vaccine Reaches 100 Million at $2‑3
Except the opposite, I make low cost vaccines that actually bypass big pharma, our patent-free COVID vaccine reached 100 million people at $2-3 per dose. It’s sad to see so many give up their critical thinking skills for conspiracy sites,...
EMF‑Controlled Gene Switch Reverses Aging In Vivo
EMF-inducible gene switch gene switch enables in vivo rejuvenation by reversing aging phenotypes Electromagnetic field-inducible in vivo gene switch for remote spatiotemporal control of gene expression https://t.co/yeIDzXChWV
Grapefruit Compound Bergamottin Blocks STAT3, Triggers Tumor Cell Death
Bergamottin, a natural furanocoumarin obtained from grapefruit juice induces chemosensitization and apoptosis through the inhibition of STAT3 signaling pathway in tumor cells https://t.co/cLRxHMFBCJ
Nicotine Pouches Pose Bigger Health Threat Than AI Doom
All this AI Doomer stuff is hysterical when the real societal risk is that in about 5 years pancreatic cancer rates will go through the roof because of the trend of doing 150mg+ of Velo/Zyn/whatever per day across a population....
One Injection Restores Hearing via OTOF Gene Therapy
A single injection uses an engineered AAV virus to deliver a healthy OTOF gene into cochlear cells, enabling them to produce otoferlin and restore the ear’s ability to convert sound vibrations into signals the brain can interpret. https://t.co/Lk34jpnRBe
Followers Needed: Push Colorado Petition Past 25 Signatures
Right now there are only 7 signatures on this petition asking the Colorado Senate to support Cover All Coloradans and there’s a goal to get 25 signatures I have over 4k followers…there’s no way y’all can’t get this past the goal...
Excluding Marginalized Groups From Health Care Is a Moral Crisis
When the ACA passed, undocumented immigrants were carved out as a bargaining chip. I was working on my bachelors in public health and couldn’t help but see the parallels between that and the way jobs mostly worked with Black people...
Founding Fathers Linked Health Initiatives to Economic Growth
JUST IN: Founding Fathers tied public health to economic growth and pushed for smallpox inoculation.
18‑Minute Sinus Surgery Aims to Boost Sleep Health
Had four sinus treatments today. Amazingly enough, the surgery took 18 minutes under general with a 27 minute recovery. Here’s what I had done: 1.Septoplasty: straightened the right deviated septum that was blocked 90% 2.Balloon Sinuplasty: dilated sinus outflow tracts, removed infection,...
FDA's 27-Year Freeze Stalled Critical Strep A Vaccine
The FDA accidentally froze Strep A vaccine development for 27 years. @AsimovPress explains what happened and where things stand now, ft. @jacobtrefethen and @coeff_giving's research.
Heparin Shortage Poses Serious Public Health Risk
First I've heard of this but extremely important to know about. Heparin is one of the most critical medications we have, and a severe shortage is a major threat to public health.
Hanan Balkhy Emerges as Potential 2027 WHO DG Candidate
The next #WHO director-general will be selected in 2027 but candidates will soon start throwing hats in the ring. A name one hears as a possible candidate is Hanan Balkhy, director for WHO's Eastern Mediterranean region, who has a very challenging...
HSAs Without Insurance Could End Perpetual Premium Debt
The one debt you can’t ever pay off ? Your insurance premiums. You literally will pay an insurance premium monthly, till you die. But we don’t look at it like it’s a debt paid to an insurance company that...
Whoop Joins Medicare via CMS ACCESS Program
WHOOP 🤝 MEDICARE This week marks a defining moment for @whoop - and a major leap forward for Medicare with eligible individuals now able to receive Whoop as part of their care. Our affiliated healthcare provider, Whoop Physician Services, PC, has been...
High Blood Glucose Linked to Cognitive Decline via Lactate Pathway
How do high glucose levels in the blood impair cognition and predict mild cognitive impairment in people with diabetes? @scisignal Elevated plasma lactate and related pathway, with a peptide intervention to potentially address it https://t.co/ai1369HWVU https://t.co/JcszZT2Tt2
Targeting Aging: Epigenetic Reprogramming Tackles Disease Root
Aging is arguably the root cause of most major diseases. Our cells lose function as we age, allowing various conditions to manifest, which is why most major diseases correlate with age. Yes, it is more complex than this, but this is...
Low‑cost Vaccines Bypass Big Pharma, Influencers Profit
No, the opposite. I develop low cost vaccines that bypass big pharma. The only shills are those connected to the corrupt wellness influencer industry, which buys whatever it can in bulk cheap so they can jack up the price with...
Nasal EV Spray Reverses Neuroinflammation and Boosts Memory
A nasal spray delivering extracellular vesicles reversed neuroinflammation, restored mitochondrial function, and improved memory in aging brain models, suggesting a noninvasive approach to counteract cognitive decline. neuroscience
Unpaid Call Still Required for Hospital Privileges
Your hospital privileges are tied to taking call. No call, no practice. That is the condition, not a choice. Corinne Sundar Rao calls it what it is: unpaid labor baked so deeply into the system that most physicians absorb it...
Nvidia's Nurabot Deploys in Hospitals to Aid Staff
Nvidia’s Nurabot Rolls Into Hospitals to Assist #Healthcare Workers by @CyberRobooo #MedTech #HealthTech #TechForGood #Tech https://t.co/DFb98tjoM4
GLP‑1 Drugs Show Weight‑loss‑independent Benefits, Study Finds
Great work by @DanielJDrucker and team; biologically plausible mechanism of GLP1-RA benefit independent of weight loss. Excellent article by @megtirrell @CNN describing the publication. Could it justify new approaches for these drugs? I think so. https://t.co/pHudk7lkAR
Taxes Fund Elderly's Cruise‑bound Diabetes Medication
Your taxes largely exist to pay for the diabetes drugs old people take while on their cruises.
Breast Milk’s Living Stem Cells May Reach Infant Brain
Breast milk contains living stem cells. In animal studies, these cells survived digestion in newborns, entered the bloodstream, and were found in multiple tissues including the brain. Whether this happens in humans is still being studied, but the animal data...
Shared Visibility, Not Contracts, Aligns Care Ecosystem
Alignment doesn’t come from contracts. It comes from shared visibility. Why smart-care platforms are becoming the bridge between payers, providers, and post-acute care.👇 https://t.co/cq0WY5tihP @PointClickCare #postacutecare #HITSM
Novo Partners OpenAI as Ideaya's Eye Data Disappoints
Novo teams with OpenAI; Ideaya gets muted response to eye drug data https://t.co/U6sDZlMxyQ $NVO $IDYA $REGN $GSK
Classic Lymphadenopathy Differential Diagnosis Table Highlights Key Features
Lymphadenopathy [2000] Habermann & @DavidSteensma @MayoProceedings https://t.co/56RvIsHEG3 <- a classic esp DDx Table 3 #lymsm #hemeonc https://t.co/PlvEKQVoiG
Unexplained Splenomegaly Study Reveals Preliminary Findings
The Challenge of Unexplained Splenomegalies: Preliminary Data of the French Prospective Multi-Center Splenomegaly Study (SMS) [Nov 29, 2018] Guillaume Denis, MD etal. @BloodJournal 32 (Supplement 1): 4815 #ASH18 https://t.co/N0PeoI1agT #SMUS
SMART Permission Tickets Enable Seamless Patient and Proxy Access
How might SMART Permission Tickets help with patient self-access, proxy access, public health, and more? Overview / explainer / live demo here: https://t.co/AHJ8s5oBuA