"...moral reasoning develops through consequences...receiving honest feedback, having to accommodate reality as it actually is... It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn..."
"To be declared a genius at one thing is to begin to believe you are a genius at everything... [and once] everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all..." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Fascinating piece responding to recent talking points on the right that declining teen pregnancy rates are a "problem." www.statnews.com/2026/04/20/t... via @statnews.com
“The intermingling of corporations and atrocities goes back to the slave trade…But one thing does seem new…the absence of pretense…Trump…announce(s) genocidal intent on social media: He advertises his plans to take over sovereign countries…”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...
How can the Trump administration be losing a propaganda war to Iran's extremist, theocratic, misogynistic and murderous regime?
www.economist.com/culture/2026...
“Those of us in clinical medicine have heard for decades our executives tell us “no margin, no mission.” Obsessive search for margin also kills the mission, and leads to patient, family, and clinician suffering. We can and must do better.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“…it is particularly concerning that when they finally requested MAID, more than half died within a week, suggesting that access to MAID was much easier than access to specialist palliative care…”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
There are reasons this Old Testament thinking was updated in the New Testament.
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
“While there certainly are more tools for identifying problems with research, critical thinking and editorial oversight were around in 2019.”
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
“Far too often, companies are suppressing unfavorable clinical trial results and keeping them secret from patients and the scientific community.”
Yep. Please focus on this for a while.
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
“The study of more than 1.5 million children born between 1997 and 2022 found no… link between acetaminophen exposure during pregnancy and autism in either general population (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.95-1.12) or sibling-matched analyses (HR 1.09, 95% CI 0.91-1.27)”
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
Can a person of sincere faith continue to support this man?
Look who is actually trying to implement "nanny state" programs to discourage us from eating certain foods...
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
She was doing everything right and broke no laws, including no immigration laws. So much for the supposed turn toward targeted enforcement focusing on criminals.
“Detaining doctors who are serving underserved populations is beyond reckless — it is cruel...”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...
How in the world did we hit a Quintifecta, and did I just make that word up?
"...no one knows how many South Carolina infants have gotten measles...Officials also don't know exactly how many infants were hospitalized with the virus because...hospitals aren't required to report measles-related admissions."
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/g...
“At Stanford, 38% of students are designated as disabled.”
Is that true? I mean, it’s in the Wall Steet Journal, but seriously?
www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
Nice to see blatant financial corruption and opposition to democracy take a hit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...
“It’s much more about what he does than what he says.”
Is anyone else wondering which is true? He’s all bluster and negotiation, or you should take his threats seriously and FAFO…?
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...
Important piece on the Barbara case: it’s about babies, not parents…
open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...
Depressing note in an otherwise positive report: "“Most of American health care operates on the opposite incentive: A heart attack is a revenue event. Until we fix that, trials like this will remain islands of progress in a sea of inaction.”
www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/h...
"...within the first week of catching the flu, people’s risk was three times higher for suffering a stroke and five times higher for a heart attack. But this risk was cut by half for people who caught the flu but had been vaccinated against it for that season"
www.healthday.com/health-news/...
"...a story with useful lessons to offer about the history of genetics education in the U.S. and the growing divide between how much universities say they value interdisciplinary research and how poorly their internal structures are set up to reward it." www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...
We've all become inured to bloviation, but I hope it's very clear that a threat to destroy a civilization is an open declaration of intent to commit genodice: "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
www.un.org/en/genocide-...
"...a Walmart pharmacist called to tell me they would not dispense misoprostol to a patient. The reason: an internal policy against dispensing medications for abortion, and the diagnosis code on the prescription read "missed abortion.""
#GodHelpUs
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
A woman in Florida was dropped by her ACA plan because she owed a nickel in unpaid premiums. This could happen because the Trump administration removed a regulation that allowed people to keep their coverage if they owed small amounts.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Most healthcare workers “got a flu vaccine in 2024-2025. Rates were highest among pharmacists (94.6%) and doctors (92.6%), followed by nurse practitioners (NPs; 88%) and nurses (79.8%).”
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
It’s an honor to share Ryyan’s remarkable work in our center’s unique gallery, which focuses on how art can be a bridge, transporting us into others’ lives to better understand science, medicine and health. www.bhnet.org/46796/denver...
“…Pete Hegseth said last month that “we will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.””
I believe he’s down for committting war crimes, but $100 bucks says he doesnt know what ‘no quarter’ means.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
“Someday, our grandchildren will read about how a political superpower with the world’s best academic institutions and most advanced biomedical research pipeline turned its back on scientific principles to follow those who wished to mold science for their own gain….”
time.com/article/2026...