I really enjoyed this conversation with NPR's Marketplace on our investigation into the use of an algorithm to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients.

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Original story with Bob Herman via STAT: bit.ly/4b1WM75

Congress did nothing this spring to rein in how pharmacy benefit managers operate, and the PBM industry spent big to get that result, new disclosures show. trib.al/raPxA3N

PLEASE leave a patient how you found them or even better. If you unsnapped their gown, took off a dressing, muted their TV, turned their lights on brighter…undo, fix, redo, make right all of that before you leave the room.

Not only for patient safety but their dignity as well!

#Breaking Testing conducted by the FDA on pasteurized commercially purchased milk has found genetic evidence of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the agency confirmed Tuesday. trib.al/5sU2zvO

IMPORTANT NEWS: Bird flu virus fragments found in grocery milk, not necessarily a threat to human health, but suggests virus is more widespread in cows than previously thought. w Rachel Roubein Dan Diamond. washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

Too many seniors & people with disabilities can't get the home care they need.
Too many caregivers are struggling to make ends meet.

Our Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act would provide the support workers need to make caregiving a lifelong career. kiro7.com/news/local/som…

#NIH is revising the application & peer review process for fellowship grants. We want to make sure promising scientists aren’t left behind. Learn more about the changes taking effect after 1/25/25: go.nih.gov/oCKKSoI

1/n I’m seeing on social media and popular podcasts, awful nonsense and false claims about Covid immunizations in pregnancy causing autism in newborns. This is dangerous health disinformation at multiple levels. Here is the real story.

PMC COVID-19 Forecast, April 22, 2024 (U.S.)

In the current 'lull' of U.S. COVID-19 transmission, we are seeing an estimated 391,000 new infections per day, with 1 in 122 people actively infectious. In a group of 30, that's about a 1 in 5 chance someone is infectious.

Preventing infection is the best way to avoid diseases like #PAIS . A new study from our team Tianyang Mao, Jooyoung Kim, Mario Peña-Hernández 🦇 et al shows that a generic antibiotic neomycin acts on the host immune system in the👃🏽to trigger antiviral resistance. (1/)🧵

Big News: You can now apply to become one of the first members of the American Climate Corps.

We’re recruiting for thousands of positions across 37 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico. To learn more, head to ClimateCorps.gov.

ESMO is launching a new journal on research in rare cancers, gold open access, online only.
Applications for the Editor-in-Chief position are now open.
📅Deadline: 20 May 2024

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