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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be sitting down with drug companies to negotiate drug prices. History shows it is not going to be easy. statnews.com/2023/03/10/med…

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It turns out that 95 percent of people really do want quick and full access to their medical records. Sorry about the paywall. bmj.com/content/381/bm…

Who would give up pioneering cardiac surgery to: improve access to care in Bangladesh, India, Mozambique, etc.; show the health effects of racial disparities in Harlem; ban smoking and trans fats in NYC, and more? Colin McCord, who died recently.bmj.com/content/381/bm…

A patient's son's suggestion 35 years ago to use toilet plungers to do CPR ultimately led to this. @luriemed #EaglesGather23 nytimes.com/2023/06/15/hea…

Scientists are working on the connection between the gut microbiome and mental health. npr.org/sections/healt…

Private equity’s intrusion into US healthcare Bad things can happen when capitalism meets medical care, writes Joanne Silberner bmj.com/content/382/bm…

The model for short-term medical missions to foreign countries used to be: fly in, give care, leave. Things were starting to change when COVID ended missions entirely. They're getting going again. How're they doing? npr.org/sections/goats…

Brilliant narrative on the meaning and role of dust. Who knew? A fun (and worrisome -- my beloved EV is a culprit) read. Jay Owens theguardian.com/news/2023/aug/…

It's hard to think about now -- everything is hard to think about now -- but once the traumatizing events are over it will be good to think about recovery. I talked to Robert Jay Lifton before the current war started. He has some ideas. npr.org/sections/goats…

How do you bring attention to a disease that is "neglected-neglected"?statnews.com/2023/10/25/nom…

A hug is worth a thousand pictures. nytimes.com/2024/04/08/hea…

Mild cogntive impairment or full-blown dementia - what happens to writing ability? undark.org/2024/04/12/ess…

I moved to an island for the quiet. Turns out to be a good thing for my health. scientificamerican.com/article/everyd…

Do you think that taste is limited to the tongue? Do you think that only certain parts of the tongue can recognize specific tastes? Nah! nytimes.com/2024/05/29/sci…

The Reagan administration defunded an EPA noise control division, leaving us with little federal help in fighting harmful, everyday noise. undark.org/2024/06/20/opi…

NPR has reposted the story I did for Undark on the need to regulate noise. All good! Though with last week's Supreme Court decision limiting rulemaking by federal agencies, I think it will take a new act of Congress, literally, to get the EPA going. npr.org/sections/shots…

Thirty years ago I did a series of stories on Toby Quitslund's fight against breast cancer for NPR. Here's an update, put together by the brilliant Kevin Kniestedt for KUOW Public Radio kuow.org/stories/on-bai…

Richard Cash, who died this week, played a major role in developing oral rehydration therapy, which has saved tens of millions of lives npr.org/sections/goats…

Doing an AMA on Reddit now about hypochondria bit.ly/3AZyvlI