F.D.A. Names Agency Veteran to Run Drug Division

Nice to hear some good @fda.gov news today. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Does he understand how health insurance works? Serious question.

A great way to stand up to cancer is voting in politicians who will fund scientific research.

A view of the (now razed) Jacqueline Kennedy Rose Garden from the #EastWing from my visit to the #WhiteHouse in January, 2025.

Posting this picture from my January trip to the beautiful and historic East Wing of the White House for no particular reason today.

Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows

This is an obvious example of why honest public health data are needed and how data-driven health policy changes can have a real impact on outcomes. #allergies #publichealth #peanuts www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

UCSF Health Marks New Chapter in Strengthening Community Hospitals UCSF Health is advancing a new chapter in its commitment to San Francisco by strengthening two long-standing community hospitals through targeted investments in facilities, technology, and operations ...

The two latest additions to the @ucsfhealth.bsky.social inpatient ecosystems now have new names: UCSF Health Stanyan and UCSF Health Hyde Hospitals.

And both will play a big part of our expansion to best meet the needs of residents of San Francisco and beyond.

www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...

NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population.

Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.

Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

And so much more important work.

But they’re destroying it all.

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

I asked ChatGPT to draw me a map showing where Columbus actually landed and glad my historical gaps are all cleared up now.

Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.

FFS

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling — Reuters Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she

Good for my alma mater. apple.news/Aa2I29qo-SVq...

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open.

Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.

UCSF Health Ranks Among Nation's Best for 2025-26 U.S. News & World Report ranked UCSF No. 1 in CA & Top 20 in the nation.

👏 The rankings are in! We’re proud to be among the nation’s #BestHospitals — and the No. 1 hospital in California and San Francisco, according to @usnews.com! 🎉

You forgot unpasteurized milk.

There’s a deli in south Minneapolis that’s North Stars themed (complete with showing old games) 35 years after the team relocated to Dallas. Pretty badass.

Make America Salmonella Again.

💯 Beautiful and on target.

Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses Inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and can be decoded in real time to restore communication to people with paralysis. Unintentional decoding of private inner speech can be preven...

This work and that of Edward Chang at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social is staggering in its implications of how we understand speech generation and wiil map its output in individuals unable to form words. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

What a world this is and why we need #SCIENCENOW for a better tomorrow.

Thanks so much! Going to Africa next month with a Nikon 100-400 Zoom and this helps with planning.

Quite surprised to learn that cytomegalovirus was this into football.

Lovely. Camera? Focal length? Aperture and Shutter speed?

I hope it wasn’t sentient so they don’t send the ships from the home planet tomorrow.

U1.9

Too funny. 😂

Innumerate

Not a surprise to anyone with a basic understanding of economics and trade.