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I have my concerns about the state of US journalism, but it seems journalism may be in dire straits globally.
The statement quoted in this article by uniQure is categorically false. The company’s description of what the control arm participants are going through is completely distorted.
Did somebody at the FDA go on records to demand a 10hr sham surgery as reported by Bloomberg ?
Is it the same FDA source that leaked to @WSJ on sexual harrassment claims against Vinay Prasad (since retracted).
Borla's complaint is incontravertible evidence of Vinay Prasad's competence, moral clarity and professionl excellence. Likely the closest Borla has been to evidence based medicine in a long time.
Yes. Thank you @SteveForbesCEO for taking on this issue.
340B increases the prices everyone pays for healthcare. Several studies have shown it increases consolidation, leads to higher drug prices, and pre-empts rebates. This directly increases healthcare premiums for everyday Americans.
Meanwhile, the intended beneficiaries of the program aren't actually helped by 340B.
It's long past the time for reform.
Terrible tragedy.
The visual is from the Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta in 2021. It’s a COVID mass grave.
Imagine I told you that “Among guys over 7 ft, there is no association with height & making the NBA.”
Would you conclude that height is not independently associated with making the NBA?
The fallacy from Dr Morse is called “range restriction”.
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Congratulations @SteveTothTX!!
❗️Rodolfo “Rudy” Garza Jr., 21, was critically injured in Sunday’s mass shooting in Austin.
A gunshot wound to the head.
In an instant, his future — the future he worked so hard to build — was put on hold.
Rudy is a senior at UT Austin studying mechanical engineering.
He’s set to graduate in May.
The first in his Hispanic family to walk this path. His education represents sacrifice. Hope. Generational change.
Instead of preparing for graduation, he’s in the ICU.
He’s in critical condition. Doctors are working around the clock. There may be more surgeries. A long, uncertain road of rehabilitation ahead.
His mother is a nurse. She’s spent her career caring for others in their most vulnerable moments.
Now she sits beside her own son’s hospital bed.
But here’s what else matters:
More than 100 of Rudy’s friends — high school and college — showed up at the hospital with food, notes, and love. That’s who he is. A young man who shows up for people.
Now he needs us to show up for him.
Please pray for Rudy’s brain to heal. For swelling to decrease. For steady hands in every procedure. For peace over his mother as she waits.
Tonight, let’s fight with them — in prayer.
🧵 1/ Many are prob confused about what all the debate is about the Keto diet & its relationship to serum lipids as well as potential CV effects of this
I’ll try to break this down below (hopefully fairly)
Disclaimer: I’m not a lipid expert but have great interest in the field
So you thought a restaurant in Austin, Texas was safe?
“She was 21 years of age and our only child”
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"Effective IMMEDIATELY, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide, at a very reasonable price, political risk insurance and guarantees for the Financial Security of ALL Maritime Trade... If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸
The @WSJ error about @VPrasadMDMPH being accused of sexual harassment was repeated by countless media outlets who didn't bother checking the facts themselves
@medpagetoday sends out email newsletters to countless docs and others and happily touted it in headlines
See before and after here
The family of 21-year-old Savitha Shan, one of the students at UT Austin who was tragically killed in the mass shooting at a downtown Austin bar early Sunday, has put out the following statement, and shared with us this photo of her.
@cbsaustin
Racism, which we are putting an end to at @TheJusticeDept & @usedgov !
Insurers are America’s favorite health care villain because they sit on the chokepoint: reimbursement, and therefore access.
In @NEJM, @LeemoreDafny makes an unpopular but basically correct point: insurers are a necessary financial steward, even if many of their tools are blunt and often unaccountable for the admin burden, denials, and prior auth chaos that patients and clinicians live with.
She traces how policy and incentives shaped today’s landscape, including BCBS conversions and the rise of national firms, and notes that the evidence tying ownership status to premiums or quality is not clean.
She frames the problem as “corporatization.” I would say it's more because of policy choices. Tax preference for employer coverage. Regulatory benefit design. ACA rules that standardize and entrench. Medicare price setting that spills into commercial contracting. These choices push payers and providers into scale games.
I agree the answer is more competition. Lower barriers for new and smaller plans to enter and scale by deregulation and then push employers to offer real choice, with meaningful variation in networks and benefits, plus reporting that reflects what high cost patients actually experience.
I disagree on the utility of price controls. In health care they are politically addictive but tend to cause more unintended harms.
If you want better insurer behavior, stop treating “profits” as the root sin and start treating “lack of competition” as the root problem.
Insurers have terrible PR, some earned, but defanging them just guarantees higher costs with nobody left to say no.
Interesting perspective on Kashmir.
🚨🇵🇰🇮🇱 Pakistan's Defense Minister called Zionism "a threat to humanity."
He claimed it has controlled the world's economic system for a century, with major powers "held hostage."
He also reminded everyone that Pakistan is a nuclear power, saying "the might of our armed forces is recognized worldwide."
Source: @clashreport
Savitha Shan Shanmugasundaram (21) Ryder Harrington (19) and Jorge Pederson (30) were shot dead in Austin, Texas, by Islamic terrorist Ndiaga Diagne. The 53 year old Muslim man from Senegal was wearing a T-shirt with the Iranian flag and a shirt with “Property of Allah” written on it. He was shot dead by police.
Savitha Shan was an active student leader on campus. She was a volunteer with Austin’s Tamil Sangam and had also started Sunflakestickers, an e-commerce business. She was active in Raas Roedo, which runs traditional Gujarati folk dance events in Austin.
Ryder Harrington was a member of Texas Tech's Beta Theta Pi chapter.
Jorge Pederson was described as a “beloved Minnesotan fighter" by Med City Fighting Championships.
I used to be open to the idea that medically assisted dying was worth allowing. I didn't think the slippery slope arguments were serious.
Then Canada proved me wrong...
Doctors need a firm line against this in the US.
It wouldn’t be the first time @statnews published unverified claims. They are the wild west of the fake news.
Savitha was one of our superstar students at the UT Austin McCombs school of business - she was set to graduate this May, and then she was on to start her career at a big professional services firm. She was a double major with honors. Involved in student organizations - a light in the classroom. Absolutely crushing to lose her.
That location on 6th Street is pretty far west of Congress (toward Lamar), and considered safe by our students. Really no words to express the wave of sadness rolling over @UTexasMcCombs and @UTAustin. Other students are still in the hospital in very serious conditions - this is a very tough week for our community, the families, and #ATX in general. Thanks for releasing this information.
🚨 #BREAKING - Indian American Savitha Shan has been identified as one of the victims of the Sunday Shooting outside a bar in Austin, Texas when a gunman opened fire killing 2 & injuring 14. The FBI is investigating if this had a terrorism connection.
One of the major problems with Medicare is that prices are set by a political process, not a market process.
And hospitals have a lot of political power.
Iran’s Minister of Education under the Shah was a woman physician.
She was found guilty of “spreading corruption on earth and denying Allah.”
She was executed by firing squad for her crimes by Khameini’s regime.
RIP Ryder Harrington.
A beloved Texas Tech student— murdered while enjoying a night out in Austin by an Islamic terrorist who never should have been allowed in our country.
Pray for his family and loved ones. 🙏
I’m curious what prompt was used to produce the “evil” image of Prasad ?
Just dispassionately discussing the Science, eh ?
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HHS has forced WSJ to correct a story alleging a sexual harassment complaint against Vinay Prasad. You can see from the portion of the article where "sexual harassment" has been removed that this was based on "people familiar with the matter."
Meaning, FDA staff told this to the reporter. A few possibilities.
1) FDA staff are floating sexual harassment rumors to damage Prasad.
2) The reporter's FDA sources got something wrong.
3) The reporter made a mistake.
Journalistic malpractice.
Per the Lancet's revisionist editorialist mental & moral cretin, Marxism "isn't about violent world revolution," or tyrannical dictatorships," rather it "defends free self-determination," & "public participation in shaping choices"--Viva La Gulag!
by far the most devastating in memoriam.
Chicago has a public school with space for 912 kids, yet only 28 students are enrolled.
The school is 97% empty.
It spends $93,787 per student.
It's staff to student ratio is 1:1.
ZERO of the kids are proficient in reading.
Here’s the head of the Texas Medical Board @szaafran advising @MuslimHealth on how foreign medical students can get residency spots in America.
He describes collaborating with Greg Abbott on making a law to streamline the licensing process for foreign graduates in Texas.
🚨🇵🇰🇺🇸 At least 22 killed and 120+ wounded in Pakistan after rioters attempted to storm the U.S. Consulate in Karachi and UN offices in the north.
Abottabad.
Imagine, the government had no idea.
What plausible explanation can there be for 5% more aspirin and statin prescribed to patients who had a coronary CTA translating to a ~2% difference in heart attacks at 10 years ? (From SCOT-HEART)
Revascularization rates are not meaningfully different in the 2 arms.