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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 21h

These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 1d

Aging well has increasingly focused on lab values & fitness scores. Often overlooked: engaging w other people. "Why Brains Need Friends" distills the science showing connection fuels resilience, enhances length, quality of life. My @wsj.com rev: www.wsj.com/arts-culture... @nachristakis.bsky.social

‘Why Brains Need Friends’ Review: Better Together

Research shows that social connection improves health and well-being. The challenge of isolation intensifies with age.

www.wsj.com

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 1d

where's genAI when you need it ;)

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 1d

Final graf in my new @wsj.com book review of "Why Brains Need Friends," on the neuroscience+health value of social connection. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
@nachristakis.bsky.social @dereklowe.bsky.social @euanashley.bsky.social @thgoetz.bsky.social @hannahkuchler.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 1d

Just out-my latest @wsj.com rev of new bk abt neuroscience underlying one of most impt - & most frequently overlooked (esp by would-be tech longevity platforms)-qualities associated w health & healthy aging: close social connection. www.wsj.com/arts-culture... (gift link) @alicecallahan.bsky.social

‘Why Brains Need Friends’ Review: Better Together

Research shows that social connection improves health and well-being. The challenge of isolation intensifies with age.

www.wsj.com

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 2d

"I'll noodle on it"

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 2d

"More of a comment"

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly powerful story from endocrinologist Dr. Caroline Fox candidly sharing her experience w an acute mental health crisis & her long, difficult, maddening, deeply inspiring journey towards recovery - & return to work as a senior biopharma R&D leader. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVWS...

Mental Health Journey to Wellness, Gratitude, and Purpose

YouTube video by Caroline Fox

www.youtube.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3d

When 2 life science discoveries converge: solving a ~3 decade mystery of extraordinary longevity and healthspan + an essential cell danger sensor
And related ongoing clinical trials!
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-long-awa...

A Long-Awaited Longevity Mystery Solved

Spotlighting an essential human biologic pathway targeted by drugs in clinical trials

erictopol.substack.com

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 3d

What @citizencohn.bsky.social said.
Nicely done, @sonnybunch.bsky.social .

Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful assessment and tribute from @sonnybunch.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/diane-keat...

Diane Keaton, 1946–2025

The leading lady of the 1970s.

www.thebulwark.com

David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 4d

Who knew?
Happy autumn!

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 6d

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 6d

That’s quite a lovely Jackson Pollock…

David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 7d

Yes and - I really think everyone has lost patience with reading almost anything, esp when it's so easy to find pithy distillates in a range of forms. Even most actual essays seem to exist mostly to serve as the basis for podcasts and soc med posts.

David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 7d

TFW it sinks in that no one actually reads anything. Not when you cognitively recognize this, but when you viscerally understand it and know it to be true.

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 8d

Finally got out three new TR pieces I've been working on:
1. Consumer Health's Digital Convergence - And What's Still Missing: timmermanreport.com/2025/10/cons...
2. Discussion of "Food Intelligence" book timmermanreport.com/2025/10/food...
3. AI Implementation: timmermanreport.com/2025/10/sili...

Consumer Health’s Digital Convergence – And What’s Still Missing - TimmermanReport.com

Consumers are taking increased ownership of their health. As Laura Landro recently described in the Wall Street Journal, this trend is driven in part by necessity — specifically by “a shortage of doct...

timmermanreport.com

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 9d

My latest TR column, discussing progress+ambition in consumer health-esp convergence around "personal health OS." Excited about much of this work, but disappointed by continued reductionist view of health as metric optimization timmermanreport.com/2025/10/consum… @alicecallahan.bsky.social

https://timmermanreport.com/2025/10/consum…

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 16d

I will never forget the day - actually the late evening- they traded Seaver to Reds just before midnight. Devastating.

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 26d

Each of these companies should be free to fire employees for performance. That can be subjective! No one is entitled to million-dollar paychecks for big news & entertainment jobs.

But when decisions are made to hire and fire to appease a vengeful ruler that’s different. That’s autocracy at work.

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 26d

In addition to whatever this says about wellness, it also speaks to where the audience is perceived to be - it looks like if you want to reach most people impactfully, you need high impact video clips; suspect @zekeemanuel.bsky.social will likely add Youtube, also some kind of podcast...

David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 26d

Move over Peter Attia and @hubermanlab.com -- looks like @zekeemanuel.bsky.social is leaping (energetically...) into the wellness influencer space! LI announcement ->
linkedin.com/posts/zeke-e...
cc @erictopol.bsky.social @alicecallahan.bsky.social @euanashley.bsky.social

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 26d

Move over Peter Attia and @hubermanlab.com -- looks like @zekeemanuel.bsky.social is leaping (energetically...) into the wellness influencer space! LI announcement ->
linkedin.com/posts/zeke-e...
cc @erictopol.bsky.social @alicecallahan.bsky.social @euanashley.bsky.social

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 27d

@jvl.bsky.social Quite possibly the only non-shitty thing I've seen all day/week/etc. cc @sonnybunch.bsky.social

Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 27d

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 28d

For anyone who, like me, grew up on Woody Allen (and can place lines like "The moose...mingled" & characters like Virgil Starkwell, his interview with Bari Weiss on @thefp.com Honestly pcast will prove, like so many of his films, irresistible - www.thefp.com/p/woody-alle... .

Woody Allen on Life and Death

The film director talks about Soon-Yi, Trump, the Knicks, and why he doesn’t care what you think of him.

www.thefp.com

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Chris Morrison @chrismorrison.bsky.social · 28d

Yeah but it'll be like $29/share with the fees bsky.app/profile/tech...

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 28d

Sources: StubHub is pricing its US IPO at $23.50/share after marketing a range of $22-$25, giving it an $8.6B market cap, and will trade under the ticker STUB (Bloomberg)

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