Healthcare Social Media and Updates

Kennedy's Base Pushes Vaccine Rollback, White House Resists
SocialMar 13, 2026

Kennedy's Base Pushes Vaccine Rollback, White House Resists

What happens when Kennedy's MAHA base's hunger for further dismantling of vaccination policy is at odds with the White House's midterm election strategy? We may be about to find out, @_daniel_payne & @ChelseaCirruzzo report. https://t.co/uiTS6XJgP0

By Helen Branswell
White House Claims Vaccine Rollout Complete; MAHA Pushes Back
SocialMar 13, 2026

White House Claims Vaccine Rollout Complete; MAHA Pushes Back

White House says it’s ‘done’ with vaccines. MAHA begs to differ https://t.co/atqj3ymMqe via @_daniel_payne @ChelseaCirruzzo

By Adam Feuerstein
CBD and CBG Reverse Fatty Liver in Mice
SocialMar 13, 2026

CBD and CBG Reverse Fatty Liver in Mice

I teach medical students that fatty liver disease (MASLD) affects 1 in 3 adults and has limited approved drug treatments. That may be changing. Hebrew University researchers found CBD and CBG -- two non-psychoactive cannabis compounds -- reversed fatty liver in mice...

By Robert Lufkin, MD
Primary Care Handles 90% Yet Receives Only 5% Funding
SocialMar 13, 2026

Primary Care Handles 90% Yet Receives Only 5% Funding

The numbers defining US healthcare. 11 years & $300,000 for an MD. 30 minutes & $38 for an insurance license. Primary care handles 90% of issues but gets only 5% of total healthcare spending. Who is wrong? We discuss the low value placed on...

By Kevin Pho, MD
FDA Approves GSK Arexvy for At‑risk Adults 18‑49
SocialMar 13, 2026

FDA Approves GSK Arexvy for At‑risk Adults 18‑49

#GSK Arexvy RSV Vaccine approved by US FDA with a wider indication for Adults aged 18 to 49 who are at increased risk of Lower Respiratory Tract Disease caused by RSV.

By WheelieDealer
Heat Therapy Triggers Heart‑Protective Cellular Repair Proteins
SocialMar 13, 2026

Heat Therapy Triggers Heart‑Protective Cellular Repair Proteins

Heat therapy activates proteins that repair cells and protect the heart [PODCAST] http://dlvr.it/TRSXny Podcast #PrimaryCare

By Kevin Pho, MD (KevinMD)
Metrics Miss the Point: 9 Laws of Care Quality
SocialMar 13, 2026

Metrics Miss the Point: 9 Laws of Care Quality

The 9 laws of health care quality: Why metrics miss the point http://dlvr.it/TRSXmd Physician #Psychiatry

By Kevin Pho, MD (KevinMD)
Cearvol Wave Lite: Stylish, Functional, Yet Quirky
SocialMar 13, 2026

Cearvol Wave Lite: Stylish, Functional, Yet Quirky

In my quest for a great over-the-counter hearing aid, this time I checked out the Cearvol Wave Lite OTC Hearing Aids Earbuds. Very nice design and good functionality, but a few quirks, as I explain... https://t.co/LN8dPaWmTO #hearingaids #audiology #hearing @cearvolhearing...

By Dave Taylor
Massachusetts Tops Overall but Lags in Senior Care
SocialMar 12, 2026

Massachusetts Tops Overall but Lags in Senior Care

I think it's interesting that Massachusetts is No 1 here overall, but ranks near the bottom on several measures of care for adults age 65 and older, including preventable hospitalizations and hospital readmissions. #aging #healthyaging https://t.co/gvWBQt2IBZ

By Jon Warner
Women’s Health: Share the Stories Medicine Ignored
SocialMar 12, 2026

Women’s Health: Share the Stories Medicine Ignored

Medicine evolves when someone documents what the system missed. Women’s biology has been waiting for that documentation for a long time. So I’m curious: Where did medicine miss your story? • Were your symptoms dismissed as stress or anxiety? • Were you offered antidepressants before...

By Sara Gottfried, MD
Qualified Health Secures $100M Series A Funding
SocialMar 12, 2026

Qualified Health Secures $100M Series A Funding

Scoop: Qualified Health, a health care AI evaluation and implementation startup, is raising around $100M in Series A funds from investors including NEA and SignalFire, sources tell me. https://t.co/F3fDXuYWTo

By Erin Brodwin
Join My Cardiologist
SocialMar 12, 2026

Join My Cardiologist

Please join me. I'm going to talk the talk - from the lens of a Cardiologist.

By Jayne Morgan, MD
Omada Simplifies Cardiometabolic Care in the GLP‑1 Era
SocialMar 12, 2026

Omada Simplifies Cardiometabolic Care in the GLP‑1 Era

The GLP-1 era demands smart decisions on access, cost, and outcomes—now. At Omada, we're simplifying cardiometabolic care for a new era with over a decade of between-visit care innovation guiding us. Learn more: https://t.co/7r5KAZbx7f https://t.co/k7Sc7JloKZ

By Sean Duffy
Congressional Advisers Urge Curbing Medicare Advantage Costs
SocialMar 12, 2026

Congressional Advisers Urge Curbing Medicare Advantage Costs

Congressional advisers call to rein in Medicare Advantage spending amid industry pressure https://t.co/15NkEfHtqV via @bobjherman @statnews

By Tara Bannow
Evotec's Horizon Plan: Site Closures and Retentions
SocialMar 12, 2026

Evotec's Horizon Plan: Site Closures and Retentions

12March: Which sites is @Evotec shutting down as part of its latest restructuring effort--and which sites will the company keep open? Read about $EVT / $EVO's "Horizon" initiative in my latest for @GENbio: https://t.co/owxn9Far1Y

By Alex Philippidis
Marketing Must Join Healthcare Operations Early, Not Last
SocialMar 12, 2026

Marketing Must Join Healthcare Operations Early, Not Last

If marketing only gets called after the portal launches and the job posts go live… you’re already too late. Sean Fitzpatrick explains why healthcare marketing should be an operations partner—not a finishing touch.👇 https://t.co/7OCnGd7vE8 @overit #HospitalMarketingLeaders

By Colin Hung
Jefferies Paints WVE Data as Win‑win‑win; Bear Sees Combo Role
SocialMar 12, 2026

Jefferies Paints WVE Data as Win‑win‑win; Bear Sees Combo Role

Doing some reading ahead of the next wave of $WVE INHBE "body composition" 🙄 data, smirking at the Jefferies analyst set up, which basically frames 6-month data as a win-win-win for the stock price. His "bear case" "Bear case would still...

By Adam Feuerstein
Choosing the Right Med Spa Platform Boosts Bookings and Growth
SocialMar 12, 2026

Choosing the Right Med Spa Platform Boosts Bookings and Growth

The right med spa platform can improve bookings, streamline ops, and support growth across multiple locations. Here’s how today’s top platforms stack up: https://t.co/KqeNCzTGNM #Meevo @AestheticsPro2 @mangomint @Vagaro #medspa #HITSM

By Colin Hung
Healthcare AI's Rapid Evolution Shapes Doctor Training
SocialMar 12, 2026

Healthcare AI's Rapid Evolution Shapes Doctor Training

The healthcare AI landscape gets more dynamic and interesting each day. My conversation with @royperlis, Harvard/MGH prof and AI editor @JAMA_current, on where the field is today, implications for doctors and med education, and more. https://t.co/RFGoldtuXa

By Robert (Bob) Wachter, MD
Slime Robots Poised to Transform MedTech and Manufacturing
SocialMar 12, 2026

Slime Robots Poised to Transform MedTech and Manufacturing

#WhatsNext? Slime #Robots. Could be responsible for advances in #MedTech #Healthcare and #Manufacturing and more. #Robotics https://t.co/kuuATvv0Bo

By James Gingerich
New Cancer Interception Strategy Regresses Pancreatic Precancers
SocialMar 12, 2026

New Cancer Interception Strategy Regresses Pancreatic Precancers

🆕 @ScienceMagazine An exciting new approach vs pancreatic cancer: "cancer interception" Considered ubiquitous, the pancreas in healthy adults has hundreds of PanINs of microscopic premalignant cancer that can be regressed in the experimental model https://t.co/erVtthSMjS https://t.co/2xHIYdIPrx

By Eric Topol
AI May Worsen Inequities in Healthcare
SocialMar 12, 2026

AI May Worsen Inequities in Healthcare

New: AI isn't lifting all boats equally in health care. At times, it might be making things worse. https://t.co/IWDP3rnJ9P

By Erin Brodwin
Explore AI, VR, Digital Health at vMed26
SocialMar 12, 2026

Explore AI, VR, Digital Health at vMed26

Envision the future of medicine at #vMed26. AI. VR. Digital health. Meet the people who are building what comes next. You won’t want to miss it. March 25–26 | Los Angeles https://t.co/pRyUSN3mAK https://t.co/83MyCFGkCc

By Brennan Spiegel, MD
UnitedHealth's Claims Processed by Single Employee Using DOS, Typewriter
SocialMar 12, 2026

UnitedHealth's Claims Processed by Single Employee Using DOS, Typewriter

Wow. United Health has just revealed that their claims department is run by one employee. He logs into MS Dos in the morning and reads through every claim, line-by-line. He then types each response manually on a type writer and faxes...

By Turner Novak
Declining Trust Fuels AI-Driven Healthcare Disruption
SocialMar 12, 2026

Declining Trust Fuels AI-Driven Healthcare Disruption

"Amid soaring prices and dwindling trust in the industry, patients are becoming more open ot alternative ways of getting the care they need. Meanwhile, advances in AI are improving access to medical information and regulators are becoming friendlier to newcomers. At...

By Vijay Pande
Seeking High‑Impact Ideas to Cut Airborne Disease Spread
SocialMar 12, 2026

Seeking High‑Impact Ideas to Cut Airborne Disease Spread

In Public Health Action Network we’re about to go through an internal expert review process to choose how to focus our efforts over the next few years. We’ll be deciding, how can we, as a small non-profit, most effectively reduce...

By Ian Goodfellow
Low‑dose Rapamycin Eases Fatigue and PEM in ME/CFS
SocialMar 12, 2026

Low‑dose Rapamycin Eases Fatigue and PEM in ME/CFS

Low-dose rapamycin alleviates clinical symptoms of fatigue and PEM in ME/CFS patients via improvement of autophagy: a pilot study Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex, multisystem disorder characterized by profound fatigue… 👉 “Low-dose rapamycin effectively reduced PEM and other key...

By David Barzilai, MD PhD
AI Therapist Beats Humans, Hits Top 10% Performance
SocialMar 12, 2026

AI Therapist Beats Humans, Hits Top 10% Performance

Infinite mental health services affordable @Limbic_ai. Key finding in Nature Medicine: https://t.co/ga8xxjSzor Limbic Layer™ turns any frontier LLM into a behavioral health specialist, improving therapeutic performance (as judged by other therapists), patient experience, and clinical outcomes. 75% of Limbic's...

By Vinod Khosla
Instant EHR Integration Boosts AI Accuracy for Clinics
SocialMar 12, 2026

Instant EHR Integration Boosts AI Accuracy for Clinics

Our new self-serve EHR integrations help clinics get set up on our clinical AI platform in minutes. Giving Glass awareness of patient context hugely increases the accuracy and utility of AI ambient insights, differentials, plans, and documentation. Available now at...

By Dereck Paul, MD
FDA Reform Essential for Real Longevity Breakthroughs
SocialMar 12, 2026

FDA Reform Essential for Real Longevity Breakthroughs

I love the longevity proponents on X But we WON'T get true longevity therapeutics if we don't reform the FDA or find a way around them. The FDA is still a quagmire of regulatory rot that has to be reformed to get...

By Ryan Bethencourt
New Tool Empowers Physicians to Evaluate Healthcare Vendors
SocialMar 12, 2026

New Tool Empowers Physicians to Evaluate Healthcare Vendors

physicians need a robust way to evaluate vendors in healthcare there is a solution ! https://t.co/eRtOKAFj0e

By Tatyana Kanzaveli
Paper-Thin Robot Squeezes 3mm G
SocialMar 12, 2026

Paper-Thin Robot Squeezes 3mm G

South Korean researchers built a paper-thin robot that squeezes through 3mm gaps and lifts 70x (!) its weight. The flexible robotic "sheet" mimicks myosin, the protein that powers muscle contractions in your body. Inside the sheet are dozens of microscopic air chambers...

By Rowan Cheung
Discrete Hearing Aids: Flysound H8 vs H9 Reviewed
SocialMar 12, 2026

Discrete Hearing Aids: Flysound H8 vs H9 Reviewed

Can't hear everyone in a meeting or while at the sports bar? Might be time to consider a discrete hearing aid. I check out two, the Flysound Premium OTC Hearing Aids Models H8 & H9. Same tech, different designs: https://t.co/1J3G3Zm7U4...

By Dave Taylor
Lilly Warns GLP‑1 Knockoffs Are Dangerous, Intensifies Compounder Battle
SocialMar 12, 2026

Lilly Warns GLP‑1 Knockoffs Are Dangerous, Intensifies Compounder Battle

Lilly warns GLP-1 knockoffs may be ‘dangerous,’ escalating war with compounders https://t.co/XOKLqIzAES @ByJonGardner $LLY $NVO #obesity

By Ben Fidler
Half Maternal Deaths in Five Years: New National Strategy
SocialMar 12, 2026

Half Maternal Deaths in Five Years: New National Strategy

“Across the country,” writes Olivia Walton, “mothers are dying at rates that would have shocked our grandmothers.” Walton, the founder and CEO of Ingeborg Investments and Ingeborg Initiatives, lays out a call to action to stop what she rightly calls...

By Arianna Huffington
Microbes in Tumors: Unraveling a Controversial Role
SocialMar 12, 2026

Microbes in Tumors: Unraveling a Controversial Role

What is the significance of microbes in tumors, a field mired in controversy? https://t.co/D5sHkLLsrT https://t.co/ntGLlke4iC

By Eric Topol
Trump Must Nominate CDC Director by March 25
SocialMar 12, 2026

Trump Must Nominate CDC Director by March 25

A deadline is looming for the Trump administration. If it wants to be able to have an acting director at #CDC it must nominate a director candidate by March 25. Complicated situation laid out in this piece written before Jay...

By Helen Branswell
Non‑psychiatrists Overprescribe Psychiatric Meds, Endangering Patients
SocialMar 12, 2026

Non‑psychiatrists Overprescribe Psychiatric Meds, Endangering Patients

Too many physicians who aren't psychiatrists think "they know best" when it comes to psychiatric medications. Nothing could be further from the truth. Or more potentially dangerous for the patient who encounters one of these dung holes.

By John Grohol, PsyD
RFK Jr Promotes Unproven Peptides, BPC‑157 Lacks Solid Data
SocialMar 12, 2026

RFK Jr Promotes Unproven Peptides, BPC‑157 Lacks Solid Data

RFK Jr is trying to get 14 peptides, without data on safety or efficacy, licensed and approved by FDA. His favorite is BPC-157. "Only three small human studies of BPC-157 exist, for instance, the largest of which is a telephone...

By Eric Topol
Call for Federal Men’s Health Office Gains Momentum
SocialMar 12, 2026

Call for Federal Men’s Health Office Gains Momentum

Yup, as Dr Bernie says, public health is not a zero-sum game, need a focus on women's AND men's health/ Momentum builds for a federal office of men’s health focused on disease prevention https://t.co/ONPLMEzKWv via @statnews https://t.co/ASKuoMrJSO

By Richard V. Reeves
Healthcare Costs Forcing Debt, Hunger, and Retirement Delays
SocialMar 12, 2026

Healthcare Costs Forcing Debt, Hunger, and Retirement Delays

Such a dismal conclusion. Taking on debt, skipping meals, delaying retirement, etc, etc, in order to cover healthcare costs. When does America come to grips with healthcare costs? Something has to give. https://t.co/L48u4W2CDG

By John Carroll
GenAI Health Tools Multiply: ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot
SocialMar 12, 2026

GenAI Health Tools Multiply: ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot

In January there was ChatGPT Health, Claude Health. Today there's Microsoft CoPilot Health. And more to come in the genAI -> health landscape https://t.co/TInH9YTvwA

By Eric Topol
AI Pre-Visit Chat Delivers Concise Summaries for Doctors
SocialMar 12, 2026

AI Pre-Visit Chat Delivers Concise Summaries for Doctors

A very important prospective (!) study from Google and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center about using AI before a new ambulatory primary care visit. The patient talks with a conversational AI that will summarize every important detail for the physician by...

By Bertalan Meskó, PhD
Pierre Fabre, ATRA to Meet FDA on Ebvallo CRL Soon
SocialMar 12, 2026

Pierre Fabre, ATRA to Meet FDA on Ebvallo CRL Soon

Pierre Fabre and $ATRA said FDA meeting to discuss the Ebvallo CRL has been scheduled. (Likely occuring within the next month.)

By Adam Feuerstein
FDA Cracks Down on Misleading GLP‑1 Telehealth Marketing
SocialMar 12, 2026

FDA Cracks Down on Misleading GLP‑1 Telehealth Marketing

The FDA is targeting telehealth marketing of GLP-1 drugs. Who’s prescribing them? Medical groups face ‘tricky’ questions when partners make misleading claims via @KatieMPalmer https://t.co/pf4Fwa7W7r

By Adam Feuerstein
Whiteboard Tactics Unlock Big NHS Negotiation Wins
SocialMar 12, 2026

Whiteboard Tactics Unlock Big NHS Negotiation Wins

The Whiteboard Windfall: A Lesson in NHS Negotiations by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/dOWFQNFRXU @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #SalesEnablement #RevOps #Leadership #Marketing #SalesNegotiation https://t.co/sWTVEyWdht

By Tim Hughes
Resident Suicides Top Death Cause; System Must Change
SocialMar 12, 2026

Resident Suicides Top Death Cause; System Must Change

Suicide is now the LEADING cause of death for US medical residents. We are losing 500 physicians a year. That is an entire med school class. Stop demanding "resilience" from doctors and start fixing the system. Tie executive bonuses to wellness, not...

By Kevin Pho, MD
AI Robotics Make Patients the New Point of Care
SocialMar 12, 2026

AI Robotics Make Patients the New Point of Care

From skin checking applications and AI to remote care devices and robotics, the field is going through a paradigm shift making patients more and more the point of care. Smart algorithms will soon diagnose skin cancer, dermatologists consult patients online, and...

By Bertalan Meskó, PhD
Join Final FDA Advisory Committee on Flu Shot Access
SocialMar 12, 2026

Join Final FDA Advisory Committee on Flu Shot Access

If you are curious about seeing what may be the last competent FDA advisory committee left standing in action as they contribute to determining access to flu shots next fall, join me, @jessicamalaty, & @SaveAmericaMvm at 12:30 pm ET on...

By Angela Rasmussen