Hi everyone. I'm done here for now. Please connect with me/message me at: linkedin.com/in/usha-lee-mc…

'It's doable' is one of the best quotes from my 2023 reporting.

'Invisible in the data: Broad ‘Asian American’ category obscures health disparities' by Usha Lee McFarling STAT. See also JPHMP Direct article led by Naoko Muramatsu on making the invisible visible and battling structural racism against Asians in U.S. journals.lww.com/jphmp/fulltext…

“You cannot have health equity without data equity.'Usha Lee McFarling discusses pitfalls of lumping nearly 25 million people into a single Asian American category. Read more about the harmful blindspots caused by this general classification in STAT here:bit.ly/46ujuSy

Yet another reason to subscribe to STAT+: The incredible work of my colleague Jonathan Wosen, Ph.D. who has been in a series of very smart stories tracing the important changes (and exodus of scientists) from academic life science and what it might mean. See🧵

Glad to see some justice on this finally. This has gone on for far too long. Orthopedic surgery needs to do better as a field if this type of behavior is tolerated. dailybreeze.com/2023/11/03/har…

Tim you are right about almost everything. But not this.

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.

My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d…

And some utterly damning charts.

1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

A truly stellar STAT First Opinion piece on liquid biopsies and the effects of potential false positives:

statnews.com/2023/10/29/ctd…

Lots of interesting/helpful info here. #longcovid

Do I have any media reporter friends? I’ve been able to oversee an unbelievable investigative podcast from a 19-year-old Indigenous student journalist — it’s the best thing I’ve edited all year. I would love for her to get some coverage

It’s such an honor to have Death Sentence included in this anthology. I’ve been giddy about this for months.

Translated! Please share! La ‘paradoja hispana’ intriga a una nueva generación de investigadores decididos a resolverla statnews.com/2023/10/31/la-… John M. Ruiz Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social Esteban González Burchard, M.D., M.P.H. @jbetancourtpr Lab de Neurociencias Carlos González Gtez Col. Gustavo Arellano

I can’t wait for this conversation. Still time to register virtually for STAT Summit if you’d like to be there too.

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