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What Do We Really Know About Addressing Burnout Among Healthcare Workers? Maybe Less Than We Think Abstract. This policy inquiry responds to the question: Are commonly held assumptions about how to address healthcare workers’ burnout truly evidence-based

New article on timely issue @healthaffairs Scholar What Do We Really Know About Addressing Burnout Among Healthcare Workers? Maybe Less Than We Think url: academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

Silicon Valley company's stock nosedives by 50% after cancer test trial The results of a new study just came in.

Silicon Valley company's stock nosedives by 50% after cancer test trial www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

CEVR's 2025 "By the Numbers" highlights our impressive output for last year:

New approach roughly predicts when Alzheimer’s symptoms begin The technique is not yet precise enough to predict a patient’s exact trajectory but could help find long-sought preventive treatment.

Fascinating! New approach roughly predicts when Alzheimer’s symptoms begin

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And read this letter too! www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Using AI to Improve Peer-review and Research Integrity in Scientific Journals Abstract. Peer-review is inefficient, biased, and often ineffective. However, its importance in maintaining research integrity, at a time when the public h

New publication @Health_Affairs Scholar gives 5 actions to improve journals’ research integrity using AI in manuscript review. Let's commit to transparent/equitable AI use! Using AI to Improve Peer-review and Research Integrity in Scientific Journals. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

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The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... via @statnews

Health Affairs Journal

Worth reading! Unsafe, Not Effective, $3.2 Million Per Dose: Why Is This Drug Still Available? | Health Affairs www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

An updated analysis of coding pattern differences in Medicare Advantage AbstractIntroduction. The intensity of diagnostic coding in Medicare Advantage (MA) relative to Original Medicare (OM) plays an important role in Medicare'

@Health_Affairs Scholar welcomes rigorous research on complex and controversial policy topics to deepen discussion. See article by CMS officials on Medicare Advantage payments, cited 2_10 in @WSJ editorial. @OxfordJournals academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mean for the Health Sciences, and Why Big Data Needs Them All Sometimes, because of the current political pushback, one can get the false impression that the academic attention that has recently been paid to increasing a university’s diversity, equity and inclus...

Join UCSF IHPS and The Lundberg Institute on March 9, online or in-person, as Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD gives a @cwclub.bsky.social talk, What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mean for the Health Sciences, and Why Big Data Needs Them All

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Congress passes legislation creating pathway for Medicare coverage of MCED - with key caveats - FDA approval, initially only if <68, www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Trump Is Said to Have Dropped Demand for Cash From Harvard

Could this saga be coming to a close? Trump Is Said to Have Dropped Demand for Cash From Harvard www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Opinion | Time to Say Goodbye

Will really miss David Brooks NY Times! Always so thoughtful and down to earth www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

We Do Care | NEJM Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.

We Do Care | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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My pleasure to be on the Health Affairs podcast talking about the "Great American Healthcare Plan" - er....non-plan? Vision board (h/t Jeff). Hope you enjoy!

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This is bonkers. I think I would take the rest of the year off if everything I worked on for the last two years was gone.

If you regularly use AI / ChatGPT (and probably others) you need to read this.

Oh no, this is an unfortunate problem for NIH and genetics research - requires careful and proactive response. Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Should be great webinar by
Health Affairs: The FDA and Its Changing Relationship to Industry. www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/h...

What's New at NEJM? (1) Kadakia 2026 New Tech Coverage by Law; (2) Kang 2025 Reviewing CMS NGS Denials My eye tagged a new article in NEJM about Congress granting coverage privilege to a class of interventions, like those which have FDA breakt...

Insightful assessment @brucequinnmd on recent publication on how Medicare’s 2018 National Coverage Determination affected claim denials for next-generation sequencing www.discoveriesinhealthpolicy.com/2026/01/jour...

FDA’s Role in Supporting Therapeutic Development to Address Unmet Needs: The National Academies Report and Beyond Sanket S Dhruva, MD, MHS, Stacie B Dusetzina, PhD, Kathryn A Phillips, PhD, Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBe; FDA’s Role in Supporting Therapeutic Developmen

How can FDA continue to support innovation? Publication by NASEM committee members S. Dhruva, @hollylynchez.bsky.social @dusetzinas.bsky.social, myself argue for post-marketing evidence, validation of surrogate markers, adherence to standards, ensuring resources.
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Newsflash - Delighted to see list of 2026 Women of Precision Medicine announced - and delighted to be included!

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left “We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

Four scientists and administrators who resigned in protest cite political interference, censorship of research, and a loss of integrity at the NIH. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

Supplements Are a $70 Billion Industry. RFK Jr. Is Good for Business. Secretary Kennedy has vowed to ‘end the war on vitamins,’ surrounding himself with advocates for pills, powders, tinctures and IV drips that aren’t subject to FDA approval.

The $70 Billion supplement, peptide, and other unregulated stuff business and RFK Jr
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RFK Jr.’s Tuskegee Experiment RFK Jr. recently directed the CDC to fund a study in West Africa that lays bare his cruelty and dishonesty

Important reading for medical ethicists and students in the health professions.

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Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say

Major study finds some benefits from open science but not as much as hoped.

Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Appeals Court Upholds Prohibition on Trump’s Medical Research Cuts

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Accelerating Science with Human+AI Review This issue of NEJM AI features the first two articles published through our accelerated human+AI review process. In this editorial, we describe the invitation-only “Fast Track” process used to revi...

Interesting pilot by NEJM AI
Accelerating Science with Human+AI Review | NEJM AI ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

ICER article in Health Affairs Scholar in top 10 stories of 2025!