Public Health Should Inform, Not Dictate Emotions
One outbreak and the entire “sane” side of public health resorted back to the paternalism of telling us not to worry or “panic”, “this isn’t Covid”, etc. They didn’t learn a thing. We didn’t appoint them to be our therapists or parents. Provide info, don’t dictate how to feel.
Cancer Treatments Advance, but Response Feedback Still Lags Months
#Cancer therapies have gotten dramatically better Feedback loop on whether the one you're on is working hasn't 3-6 mos is still the wait & for too many patients that gap costs time they don't have @PittHexAI @PittTweet @MIT_Healthcare @NineDiagnostics https://t.co/bAfjSd7UQE
Universal Label Masks Healthcare Rationing, Not a Solution
“Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.”
Mothers Need Real Healthcare, Not Just Flowers
Mothers deserve more than flowers today. They deserve doctors who take their pain seriously, hormones that are managed properly through every decade, and healthcare that doesn’t treat their symptoms as inconveniences. Happy Mother’s Day ❤️
Cytokinetics Stock Overpriced Amid Strong Aficamten Data
Aficamten’s clinical data is strong, but Cytokinetics’ stock price already reflects peak sales. With competition from Camzyos and launch risks ahead, the risk/reward looks skewed at current levels. Biotech
Private Equity Drives Majority of Indian Hospital Revenue
WHO CONTROLS HEALTHCARE IN INDIA 🇮🇳 Apollo Hospitals - 43% Average revenue per bed ~ 61000 (Vanguard, GQG, Govt of Singapore) Max Healthcare - 45% Average revenue per bed ~ 78000 (KKR, Partners Group) Healthcare Global - 60% Average revenue per bed ~ 46000 (CVC Capital) Fortis Healthcare -...
Policy-Driven Pay Gaps Push Doctors Into Hospitals, Lengthening Wait Times
Fifteen years ago, 75 percent of US physicians were in private practice. Today, around 25 percent are. That is not market evolution. That is a policy outcome. Hospitals are paid 2 to 3 times more than independent practices for the same office...
Make Childbearing Affordable and Safe, Not Coercive
Happy Mothers’ Day. In the face of a silver tsunami, we need more people to have kids. We should consider policies that makes that an affordable option that’s safer for women, versus one that coerces people into it.
UK Hospitals Often Lack Weekend Doctors, Raising Cut Concerns
My mum has been in two hospitals (in the UK) over the last 28 days and never seen a doctor at the weekend. Is this normal? Is it down to cuts?
Oklahoma Health Plan's PBM Rip‑off Could've Been Avoided
@mtleake09 You know what to do TrumpRx is a portal. It’s not a middleman. The problem here is not theirs. It’s whoever runs the Oklahoma employee health plan, that hired the PBM, that ripped off everyone involved, including...
South Korea Deploys Robots to Ease Nursing Home Shortage
Robots and AI in S Korean nursing homes to address care crisis https://t.co/f7H9nxRmbb via @asianews
Quarantine Unnecessary; States Must Declare Emergency Over Asymptomatic Spread
Quarantine should not have been even an option. The states where those travelers came back to need to do a state of emergency. A 2 week period where people potentially show NO symptoms is what’s concerning me..:
Crowdsourced Symptom Tracking Can Spot Outbreaks Early
Save this post. 👈 The next public health signal may not come first from a lab, a hospital, or a press conference. It may come from people quietly feeling sick — before the system sees the pattern. That is why I built SymptomSignal:...
Early Stem Cell Therapy Boosts Energy and Social Engagement
Two and a half months post stem cells for my son James He has autism and we’re already seeing changes, like he has more energy, is more outgoing and more responsive. And we haven’t even hit the three to six month...
Ozempic Mainly Reduces Lean Mass, Not Skeletal Muscle
How much “muscle” are people actually losing on Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs? The first thing to understand: Lean mass is not the same thing as skeletal muscle mass. That distinction matters.
HHS Secretary’s Anti‑science Stance Jeopardizes Proven mRNA Advances
It may not be the best idea to have a HHS Secretary whlo knows nothing about medicine and health and won't listen to anyone who does.
Upcoming Meeting to Shape Gerotherapeutic Regulatory Frameworks
Affecting the Aging Trajectory: Regulatory Constructs for Gerotherapeutic Drug, Biologic & Device Development 👉 “On May 27, 2026, the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, in collaboration with @ARPA_H and the @xprize Foundation, will convene a hybrid public meeting on exploring...
OTC Hearing Aids Offer Affordable, Game‑changing Solution
More hearing aids? Yes, because lots of folks have mild hearing loss, and OTC solutions are affordable and, honestly, game changing. This time I'm looking at the new Techmi FacePro OTC Hearing Aids in this demo and review: https://t.co/W0GUOshnHY #hearing...
Seeking Experienced Internists for High‑Touch Concierge Care
I’m in the middle of a very tough search for a primary care physician for a low‑panel, high‑touch concierge practice in SF and Miami. Think ~100 patients, 45–90 minute visits, UHNW families, full-time, in-person. I’m looking for clinically serious internists/family physicians...
Hospital Samples Create False Negative Correlation Between Independent Diseases
Berkson’s paradox or Berkson bias: If you look at only hospitalized patients, you will typically see a negative correlation between any two independent conditions (A and B) that each would lead to hospitalization. Intuitively, among hospitalized patients, if someone does not...
AI's Real-World Impact in Pharma and Medicine
Just out-latest @timmermanreport post: AI in Practice: on the important, difficult work of getting AI to deliver-in pharma, medicine, & beyond. https://t.co/fuwuxubhrb Cited: @Loftus, @oziadias, @DeanKateBaicker, @EricTopol, @patricksmalone, @arjunmanrai, @zakkohane, @WSJBooks
Only 12% of Nurses Are Men, Yet Training Demands Rigor
12% of nurses nationally are men,”nurse, Nicholas Giordano PhD, RN. “Many have traditionally mischaracterized #nursing…but becoming an effective #nurse in the modern #healthcare landscape requires candidates to pursue complex and rigorous training.” Thank you, @statnews.com
Depression Boosts Cancer Death Risk by Up to 83%
Depression increases cancer mortality by 23–83%: a meta-analysis of 65 studies across five major cancer types https://t.co/tBVXpsqf7g
Health Care Isn't a Right; It's a Resource-Dependent Service
In my state, we have Medicaid for low income people. You can get a basic health insurance plan for free if you qualify. State subsidized health care is possible and prevalent in capitalist countries. Your first mistake is believing that...
Curing All Diseases May Ultimately Converge with Solving Aging
Is "curing all diseases" essentially = "solving aging"? feel like @fedichev would disagree from a technical perspective, but perhaps the spirit of the mission inevitably results in convergence.
Modern Tech's Black Boxes: GLP‑1s and AI
Listening to Ezra Klein & Julie Belluz talk about the black box that obscures our understanding of GLP-1s, you can't help thinking of the black box that obscures our understanding of AI. Feels like the modern condition: magical technologies in...
Hantavirus Surge Sparks Urgent Vaccine Debate
Hantavirus outbreak…?! Join us for a timely and pressing conversation on the debate over vaccines 💉
FDA Staff Predicts Low Morale After Makary’s Departure
Here's the last quote from Politico's piece on Makary's abrupt (reportedly soon) exit: “He will not be missed by a single career person,” said an FDA staffer granted anonymity to discuss Makary’s tenure prior to the news of his pending departure....
Constructive Feedback Needed, Not Contempt, for AI Healthcare
I am reposting this because it shows something bigger than one comment. This is the difference between feedback and contempt. Feedback helps builders see blind spots. Contempt just throws tomatoes from the balcony. In AI, especially in healthcare and public health, we need hard...
Hantavirus: Weeks of Incubation, Rapid Decline—Seek Care Fast
Another thread worth your time. A note about #hantavirus: The incubation time (period from infection to symptoms) can be very long — weeks. But once symptoms start, progression to severe disease is rapid. Quick access to care is critical.
Normal Lab Ranges Miss Fertility Red Flags
Lab values your doctor calls normal that are actually signs your fertility is suboptimal: - TSH 3.5. Normal lab range. Suboptimal for conception. You want under 2.5 if you are TTC. - Fasting insulin 12. Normal lab range. Already showing insulin resistance....
Doctors Resist Perimenopause Treatment Despite Proven Sleep, Mood Benefits
Why are physicians so unwilling to treat perimenopause when it’s proven to help sleep and mood?
LLMs Fail to Admit Uncertainty in Medical Contexts
Expressing uncertainty is a major weak spot of LLMs in medicine @NEJM "Can AI Say I Don't Know?" Good lines: "Contemporary LLMs have passed many Turing tests, but will they pass this modern test of not knowing? We don’t know." https://t.co/EsJR8gIDHs https://t.co/CXL0fpzP6v
Doctors Needed to Build Scalable AI Multi‑Specialty Care
We need awesome doctors who can help develop AI doctors to make AI scalable for all primary care, chronic disease care, and parts of specialty care we call "multi-specialty primary care"! AI allows for this oxymoron. Make a difference globally
Misinformation on Transmission Risks Increased Household Spread
This has real implications for what happens next: --> We know there are a whole bunch of people around the world in quarantine, and everyone watching for secondary infections. --> What those people do will determine if those secondary cases appear --> Telling...
Launching Summer Lifestyle Medicine Pilot for Harvard Med Students
Taking part in the Harvard Macy Institute Scholar Program Poster Presentation on Thursday afternoon was such a joy. I share my plans for my summer pilot class in lifestyle medicine, which I will hold for the Harvard Medical Students finishing their...
Healthcare Adds 1.8 M Jobs; Other Sectors Lose 128 K
Insane stat: Healthcare and Social Assistance have added nearly 1.8 million private-sector jobs in the US since the end of 2023 while all of other industries combined have lost 127,800 jobs. https://t.co/LpZ31hL2fD
Severe Malaria Leaves Cognitive Deficits for Up to 15 Years
Children who survive severe malaria may experience lasting cognitive and academic challenges, with effects persisting up to 15 years after illness, highlighting the need for long-term support in affected regions. malaria
CRISPR Screens Reveal RNA Targets that Boost T‑cell Killing
High-content CRISPR activation screens identify synthetically lethal RNA-based mechanisms to sensitize cancer cells to targeted T cell cytotoxicity https://t.co/gi3hEvoi9V https://t.co/njFRebLRVo
Just 11 Minutes More Sleep Cuts Heart Risk 10%
11 More Minutes of Sleep, 5 More of Activity: 10% Lower Heart Risk As a medical school professor, patients ask whether tiny lifestyle changes really do anything. New data from 53,000 adults says yes. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, March 2026 (Koemel...
Boosting Physician AI Adoption Through Prescriptive Strategies
Prescribing Change: Improving #AI Adoption Among Physicians by Michel van Harten @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/4U52ChjK9J #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/dMKeiDHEJQ
Isomorphic Labs Eyes $2B Raise, Biotech’s Second‑largest
Great scoop from @RebeccaTorrenc5 & @mhbergen on Isomorphic Labs in "advanced discussions to raise more than $2 billion in a new round of funding" led by Thrive Capital Would be second-largest VC raise ever in biotech, only behind $3B for...
Choosing Traits: Mercy vs Competitive Advantage in Embryo Selection
Listening to @hsu_steve and @AlexTISYoung discuss the ethics of embryo selection is disorienting. Seems disingenuous to laugh off the difference between screening out Huntington’s and optimizing for height or IQ, as if the distinction is some kind of philosophical naivety. A...
CDC Delays Hantavirus Alert, HHS Controls Communication
1. #CDC issued its 1st alert to health providers & public health depts on the cruise ship #hantavirus outbreak overnight. I got it at 12:45 am ET. This should have happened days ago. CDC's communications are tightly controlled by...
Politics Controls Medicare Drug Coverage, Shapes Private Insurers
Politics does determine which drugs Medicare &Medicaid pay for, and through those decisions, most private insurers. Wake up dude.
Billions Spent on Research We Could Simply Stop
We spend $50 billion now on biomedical research through NIH, and several billion more through other agencies. We could "save" that money by not spending it, yet we do. Same story.
Low‑Cost Vaccines and Open Science Aren’t Evil
Hmmm, presumably making low-cost vaccines to help humanity, $2-4 per dose, no onerous patent restrictions, pioneering a way to bypass big pharma, helping the nation through a terrible pandemic, writing books with academic presses on history of science/medicine, constitute evil?
Government Sets Drug Funding, Market Determines Prices
Guess what, the government NOW decides how much it will pay and for which drugs. It will have to decide which lines of research it will support, as is the case now. The price wll be left to the market,...
When Doctors Stall, Patients Self‑Prescribe Online
A doctor found out he had an ascending aortic aneurysm because his cardiologist mentioned it in passing. Then, when he asked for a beta blocker through the patient portal, the answer he got back was "he isn't comfortable." He asked...
SuperDNA: AI-Driven Biotech Hub Accelerates Drug Discovery
Welcome to SuperDNA Up City - this will be the true automation biotechnology + AI Disneyland with 10 thousand humans in the loop. Most people do not realize that even today, with 30 developmental candidates some of which often trigger...