Tinker Ready
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Freelance health and science journalist. Medscape, Health Leaders, Nature, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Fast Company, Parents, News & Observer and more.
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A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia on Monday began administering a groundbreaking HIV-prevention injection in the drug's first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world's highest HIV burden.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
South Africa, Eswatini and Zambia on Monday began administering a groundbreaking HIV-prevention injection in the drug's first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world's highest HIV burden.
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There’s an HIV prevention injection that could protect MILLIONS.
But one company controls it.
It’s time for Gilead to stop hiding behind restrictive patents, exclusionary licensing deals, & registration delays and start making this shot available to everyone who needs it.
But one company controls it.
It’s time for Gilead to stop hiding behind restrictive patents, exclusionary licensing deals, & registration delays and start making this shot available to everyone who needs it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
There’s an HIV prevention injection that could protect MILLIONS.
But one company controls it.
It’s time for Gilead to stop hiding behind restrictive patents, exclusionary licensing deals, & registration delays and start making this shot available to everyone who needs it.
But one company controls it.
It’s time for Gilead to stop hiding behind restrictive patents, exclusionary licensing deals, & registration delays and start making this shot available to everyone who needs it.
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“We’ve gone to a place in our country where we’re so removed from end-of-life care in a way that we didn’t used to be,” says Osha Towers of Compassion & Choices. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/end-of-life-home-hospice-care-dying-new-orleans-louisiana/
More People Are Caring for Dying Loved Ones at Home. A New Orleans Nonprofit Is Showing Them How. - KFF Health News
Demand for home health care, including at-home hospice care, has skyrocketed since the onset of the covid pandemic. A New Orleans nonprofit is teaching people how to provide end-of-life care for relat...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“We’ve gone to a place in our country where we’re so removed from end-of-life care in a way that we didn’t used to be,” says Osha Towers of Compassion & Choices. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/end-of-life-home-hospice-care-dying-new-orleans-louisiana/
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Scientific journals are more likely to publish studies that found something rather than those that found nothing.
A statistician explains how knowing this can help you interpret what you read about research.
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A statistician explains how knowing this can help you interpret what you read about research.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – and that affects what scientific journals choose to publish
Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re interested in exploring.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Scientific journals are more likely to publish studies that found something rather than those that found nothing.
A statistician explains how knowing this can help you interpret what you read about research.
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A statistician explains how knowing this can help you interpret what you read about research.
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Story argues Long COVID clinics offer poor advice about exercise, while dismissing harms. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Story argues Long COVID clinics offer poor advice about exercise, while dismissing harms. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
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"At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website." --epidemiologist @kkjetelina.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
One of CDC’s final blows. And what it means for you.
Where to find trusted health information now?
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November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website." --epidemiologist @kkjetelina.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics
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More countries report rising levels of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, warns WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, according to new data from its Enhanced Gonococcal Antim...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics
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New #WTHealth podcast up: @joannekenen.bsky.social, @shefali.bsky.social and Paige Cunningham on what the GOP really wants on health care, how the D's may well have won the shutdown, and an interview with @avik.bsky.social on possibilities for bipartisanship...
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The GOP Circles the Wagons on ACA - KFF Health News
Republicans are solidifying their opposition to extending pandemic-era subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans and seem to be coalescing around giving money directly to consumers to spend on health ca...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
New #WTHealth podcast up: @joannekenen.bsky.social, @shefali.bsky.social and Paige Cunningham on what the GOP really wants on health care, how the D's may well have won the shutdown, and an interview with @avik.bsky.social on possibilities for bipartisanship...
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The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
Despite near-universal health insurance coverage, more than 1 in 8 Massachusetts residents carries family medical debt. www.chiamass.gov/massachusett...
Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey
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November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Despite near-universal health insurance coverage, more than 1 in 8 Massachusetts residents carries family medical debt. www.chiamass.gov/massachusett...
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The CDC’s website now says: The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
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Autism and Vaccines
Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The CDC’s website now says: The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
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Facing mounting financial pressures, insurance companies are changing the prescription drug coverage available to many consumers in Medicare Part D.
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Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?
Facing mounting financial pressures, insurance companies are changing the prescription drug coverage available to many consumers in Medicare Part D.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Facing mounting financial pressures, insurance companies are changing the prescription drug coverage available to many consumers in Medicare Part D.
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The US may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year and seems to be spreading more rapidly and earlier than usual.
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Early Signs Point to a Harsh Flu Season in the U.S.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The US may be headed for a rough flu season, with a virus that causes more severe symptoms than the one last year and seems to be spreading more rapidly and earlier than usual.
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“Larry Summers has demonstrated that he cannot be trusted. Period. That includes no trust for the advice he gives or for teaching students anywhere,” (Sen.)Warren told the Globe.
Larry Summers tells Harvard students he wants to continue teaching - The Boston Globe
Late Tuesday, Harvard announced it was opening a new investigation into all ties between university affiliates and Epstein.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Larry Summers has demonstrated that he cannot be trusted. Period. That includes no trust for the advice he gives or for teaching students anywhere,” (Sen.)Warren told the Globe.
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We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A tiny tick bite exposes a big flaw in the health care system: Insurance companies invoke prior authorization to avoid paying for services of all kinds, even when they are minor and medically necessary. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Ticked Off Over Preauthorization: Walk-In Patient Avoided Lyme Disease but Not a Surprise Bill - KFF Health News
A Maine woman sought care at a clinic for a tick bite, then paid full price after her insurer denied coverage. Its reason? She didn't have preapproval for the walk-in visit, even though testing later ...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A tiny tick bite exposes a big flaw in the health care system: Insurance companies invoke prior authorization to avoid paying for services of all kinds, even when they are minor and medically necessary. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
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November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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How Trump's patent office appointees are delaying low-cost drugs
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How Trump's patent office appointees are delaying low-cost drugs
The president talks a lot about lowering drug prices. But when it comes to action, his appointees are doing just the opposite.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
How Trump's patent office appointees are delaying low-cost drugs
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