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Prof. Jacob Bor, commented, “if the US simply performed at the average of our peers, one out of every two US deaths under 65 years is likely avoidable. Our failure to address this is a national scandal.”
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 15h
New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.
www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.
www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
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Exactly! Health insurance coverage tied to a JOB is the modern method of SLAVERY!!
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ICE is out of control in Chicago. Now just tossing tear gas canisters out of the car in the middle of one of our neighborhoods as kids are walking home from school, people out going grocery shopping.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
News Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning' Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.
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by Christina Ho — Reposted by: Lisa Diedrich

christinasho.bsky.social
Too many Mbembe quotes that are too on the nose: "The spirit of the time is not only about survival. It is also about a renewed will to kill as opposed to the will to care...to sever all relationships as opposed to the will to engage in the exacting labor of repairing the ties that have been broken"
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4d
Yes. I have a piece in the pipeline about "illness as policy" & it will be so behind the necropolitical times when it comes out. I know that's part of the point of the tactic of flooding the zone with death.
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by Lisa Diedrich — Reposted by: Christina Ho

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Yes. I have a piece in the pipeline about "illness as policy" & it will be so behind the necropolitical times when it comes out. I know that's part of the point of the tactic of flooding the zone with death.
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They are attacking farmers. Factory workers. Attorneys. Non profits. Science. Arts and culture. Small business. Federal government employees. The impact is going to be tragic. These are all interrelated and strategic plans. We were warned.
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by Ingrid Robeyns — Reposted by: Christina Ho

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Thank you, New York Times. I like the word 'mighty', but the truth (as I see it) is that since writing it, my book has become pretty non-radical, given how events in the world are unfolding.
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Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
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Looking at GenAI costs in healthcare: For medical billing, a local AI model was more accurate and faster than GPT-4. Meanwhile, using commercial LLMs at scale could incur annual API costs of $115k to $4.6M, posing a significant financial challenge for healthcare systems.
#MedSky #MedAI #MLSky
Generative AI costs in large healthcare systems, an example in revenue cycle - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Generative AI costs in large healthcare systems, an example in revenue cycle
www.nature.com
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heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
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Sigh ... whilst in AU ... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 amid rising HPV vaccination rates
Experts call for public access to vaccine for all young people after free school program reduces infection rate by 92%
www.theguardian.com
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by Trevon D. Logan — Reposted by: Christina Ho, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Good history helps us avoid nostalgia. The great article “Economic History and the Historians” (2020) by Anne McCants reminds me why nostalgia can get us in trouble. Two of her examples are very relevant to today: vaccinations and the popular narrative of some economic “good old days.”
Getting vaccinated is unpleasant. Dying of measles is worse. In the decade before the 1963 vaccine for measles emerged, an average of 475 Americans died from measles every year, most of them children. This (absolute) number had dropped to a low of 1 in 1981, despite a steadily increasing population that might have hypothetically contributed additional cases. Sadly, the number of measles cases in the United States has been steadily climbing upward again because we seem not to remember the ravages of the disease so much as the inconvenience of the shot—even without taking into account the absurd rejection of the solid scientific evidence in favor of vaccinations. Many people still have an elderly relative who survived a bout of severe childhood illness; not one of us has an elderly relative who did not. The blurring of the historical evidence for and against vaccination that arises from strangely incongruous historical narratives allows a seemingly inconsequential but nonetheless deadly nostalgia to run rampant. Another example of dangerous reverence for the past concerns the flurry of popular enthusiasm lately (at least if the pundits of the 2016 American election are to be believed) for the “good old days” of the 1950s when a family could live securely on just one income (in these nostalgic accounts, that one income is usually a man’s). Lest we forget, these are the same good old days of poor air quality and measles. Maybe trivial in comparison but certainly indicative of the scope of the cognitive problem that nostalgia presents, the average size of a new home built in America in 1950 was 983 sq. ft.; by 2010, the average size had risen to 2,392 sq. ft. Given that families were larger on average in the 1950s than they were in 2010, per capita space allocation had risen even faster than total area. Although we might not need that much personal space, many of us have become used to it. Older furniture now looks tiny compared to what is now on offer in showrooms, whereas older television sets were behemoths with miniscule screens showing programs in glorious black and white.
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Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Its a real 1000 years of darkness day. The right has been so effective at destroying any mode of communication the left is talking about ezra klien, who is essentially a peice of shit on a stick billionaries use to shove in the faces to punish them for getting out of line.
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by Christina Ho

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This happened the other night and I couldn’t go because of teaching but found it online.

by Christina Ho

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Na...
Joan Acocella: A Tribute (1945-2024)
YouTube video by New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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christ on a bike
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Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.
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Immigrant rights groups are desperate for funding to help hire more lawyers. Meanwhile, we also live in this country. sfstandard.com/2025/09/27/s...
Investors have splurged $10M on sperm racing
The instantly viral F-1 races for semen are given a big boost by backers who see a fertile future in the health-meets-entertainment company.
sfstandard.com
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Every word of the piece is outstanding, and Táíwò really sticks the landing:
It would certainly be ideal if we could do away with failure and falling short—if we could always be as good as our values. It would be ideal if Klein felt the burning commitment to justice that Russell felt, so much so that he similarly would not see the point in pretending to be “on the same side of a larger project” as the likes of Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro. And it would be ideal if he understood what liberal and egalitarian values are and what they demand of him and catered to that, rather than to the personal expedience of reading lines from the script of a fascist movement eroding basic democratic freedoms and aiming to subordinate whichever large swaths of the country are not simply removed outright. But if he can’t manage that, he could still spare us the sanctimony. He certainly needn’t advertise this particular shortcoming in the New York Times. He could, if nothing else, have the common decency to be ashamed.
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This is the official communication from the FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy.
- They acknowledge the lack of a causal link with autism
- Essentially tell physicians to keep doing what we've been doing anyway
It's very different from the press conference.
Pass it on.
Official communication from FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy acknowledges there is no causal link between its use in pregnancy and autism. Also states clearly that this is the safest over the counter treatment for fever and pain in pregnancy. It is very different from what was communicated at the press conference.
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There are *so many* problems with the way that we do international aid and support in times of disaster. I am not naive to that, believe me.

But there are people out there willing to dig through rubble to recover bodies as a stranger in a stranger’s land.

We told them to stop doing that.
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We are looking for someone with at least eight years of experience in a senior finance role who has previously worked for nonprofits. This position is part of the CARB-X Executive Team.

➡️ Apply today! bit.ly/3YLyo5V
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by Ezra Golberstein — Reposted by: Christina Ho

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My kingdom for a counterfactual.
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*WHITE HOUSE SAYS DOCTORS MAY BE EXEMPT FROM H1-B VISA FEES
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And then Schulman ends the list with this. He’s telling the world he doesn’t understand science without saying he doesn’t understand science.

“we still don't have the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's”

How naive. How uninformed this is. These diseases are blindingly complex! Progress has been huge.
younger than 40 fell from 36 percent to just 8 percent. • all these decades later, we still don't have the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's • That, obesity rates are skyrocketing, life expectancy is flatlining and health care costs more than ever.
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gardeninglisa.bsky.social
Just reading this insane stuff today. 😯😯😬 drug shortages due to fringe ideas was a problem in the pandemic, and yet again the people with autoimmune disease & cancer will bear the brunt of this (fellow MTX dependent person)
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