Useful! Provenance and Funding of Extremely Cited Biomedical Articles Published Between 2003 and 2024 url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Provenance and Funding of Extremely Cited Biomedical Articles Published Between 2003 and 2024
This cross-sectional study explores the origin and funding of top-cited biomedical publications with regard to numbers of articles originating in the US and supported by the National Institutes of Hea...
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Health and Medical Research Funding in a Divided America — How to Increase Support | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Health and Medical Research Funding in a Divided America — How to Increase Support | NEJM
A majority of U.S. Republicans support withholding federal funding from “ultraliberal” universities — but maintaining medical research funding. A national campaign could boost advocacy for such a c...
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Join us on October 28 for a hybrid public workshop to discuss how AI is impacting translational #genomics research and genomics clinical care.
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Exploring Applications of AI in Genomics and Precision Health: A Workshop
Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Many questions about Pfizer deal with Trump Administration to avoid tariffs. Why does the federal government need to become a drug marketer? Doesn’t it already do enough not very well? www.wsj.com/opinion/dona... via @WSJopinion
Opinion | America’s Pharmacist in Chief
The President becomes a drug marketer, while Pfizer gets a tariff break.
www.wsj.com
"The world of scientific research still needs a Drummond Rennie." Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Remembering Drummond Rennie—Champion of Integrity in Science and Scientific Publication
Drummond Rennie, physician, scientist, editor, climber, tireless promoter of integrity and transparency in science, and mentor to many, died on September 12, 2025, at the age of 89.
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Here's where behavioral economics and the great insights of Daniel Kahneman (who I learned so much from when I took his class at UC-Berkeley) could be useful....
Nicely nuanced discussion about balancing risk/benefit. This struck me “COVID vaccine decision is qualitatively different than vaccines such as polio... because the vaccines prevent transmission. With COVID vaccination, the benefit is to the individual, with modest effects on transmission.”
Good description of nuances after court decision on LDTs: "leaves laboratories to trek through the middle, a Sahara-sized space complete with shifting, if metaphorical, sands." www.captodaymag.com/captoday/lib...
CAP TODAY - Where court’s LDT decision leaves labs
The Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to regulate laboratory-developed tests as medical devices came to a decisive halt this spring.
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On the rare day that it's 85 degrees in San Francisco, one must eat soft serve on the Bay!
by Robert M. Califf — Reposted by: Kathryn A. Phillips
An opinion about the need to better understand the framing and decision making that impacts so much of preventive public health--"habits" and inconveniences to prevent low probability, but high impact future events in return for some up front risk.
substack.com/@robcaliff27...
substack.com/@robcaliff27...
Interventions for Low-Probability Events
Recently, I have been struggling to understand why so few people have taken the updated COVID booster when the benefit-risk calculation seems so straightforward.
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Details on demands by Trump Administration to UCLA that could have far-reaching and long-lasting implications for entire UC system. dailybruin.com/2025/09/15/t...
Trump administration makes demands for UCLA policy changes in exchange for funding - Daily Bruin
The Trump administration is seeking to exert control over several of UCLA’s admissions, protest and health care policies in exchange for the university’s research funding, according to a draft settlem...
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Interesting book about my alma mater @UCBerkeley's evolution from early backlash against corporate collaborations to current exuberance for entrepreneurs and startups. iande.berkeley.edu/startupcampus
Startup Campus: How UC Berkeley Became an Unexpected Leader in Entrepreneurship and Startups | Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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Sorry to hear that Drummond Rennie passed away. When he was @JAMA_current Deputy Editor based in SF, I benefited so much from his mentorship. He did not mince words in telling me when my work needed improvement - and indeed, he was right.
Several of my esteemed colleagues eg @robcaliff.bsky.social quoted re why approach creates more problems than solves. Under Trump, FDA Seeks To Abandon Expert Reviews of New Drugs kffhealthnews.org/MjA4NzEzMg via @kffhealthnews
Under Trump, FDA Seeks To Abandon Expert Reviews of New Drugs - KFF Health News
Advisory committee meetings help FDA scientists make decisions and increase public understanding of drug regulation, and abandoning them doesn’t make sense, former officials said.
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Judge rules Trump administration cannot withhold funding from Harvard
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Judge rules Trump administration cannot withhold funding from Harvard
The Trump administration illegally withheld federal funding for alleged antisemitism violations, a federal judge in Boston ruled.
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And we don't need covid-19 vaccines?! WHO now reports > 7Million deaths from the virus. data.who.int/dashboards/c...
COVID-19 deaths | WHO COVID-19 dashboard
The latest data for coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths from the WHO COVID-19 dashboard.
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by Kathryn A. Phillips — Reposted by: Stacie B. Dusetzina, Daniel S. Goldberg
An old adage is that US health care policymaking is so complex that even good ideas cannot get enacted. Alas, we have now the reverse: legislation so bad that even those who voted for it wish it was reversed.
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The Worst Piece of Health Care Legislation Ever
This JAMA forum discusses the cuts to US health care spending in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and their impacts on Medicare and Medicaid recipients, physicians, and hospitals, particularly those in ...
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The federal government’s $1B demand is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate @UCLA and its critical mission. Join me and #StandUpForUC to defend @uofcalifornia and support its life-saving work. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...
Stand Up for UC
The federal government’s demand of $1 billion from UCLA puts the entire University of California system at risk. Stand with us to protect UC.
www.universityofcalifornia.edu
Taught me new insights about "surrogate endpoints"
Robert Califf
@robcaliff.bsky.social
· Aug 20
by Robert M. Califf — Reposted by: Kathryn A. Phillips
Reposted by: Kathryn A. Phillips
Looking forward to participating in this webinar to discuss our work on distributional cost-effectiveness analysis in genomic medicine, recently published in Value in Health www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by: Kathryn A. Phillips, Jason R. Guertin
The Health Economics Methods Advisory (HEMA) has a new website! hemamethods.org
HEMA was convened by leaders at 3 global HTA organizations: ICER, @nicecomms.bsky.social, and @cda-amc.bsky.social
to critically and independently examine and assess new methods and processes.
HEMA was convened by leaders at 3 global HTA organizations: ICER, @nicecomms.bsky.social, and @cda-amc.bsky.social
to critically and independently examine and assess new methods and processes.
Health Economics Methods Advisory
hemamethods.org