Stacie B. Dusetzina

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 29m

How you spend your days matters. Knowing the time impact from the treatments pursued (or not) can help patients and their families to be prepared for making informed decisions about cancer care. What an honor to be part of this work.

ishaniganguli.bsky.social @ishaniganguli.bsky.social · 1h

For older adults with metastatic cancer, each day spent on health care can take away from days that are often devastatingly limited. Our latest study led by Arjun Gupta and Shelley Jazowski with @dusetzinas.bsky.social and Avi Gupta is out now in @jamanetworkopen.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Health Care Contact Days in Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer

This cohort study examines patterns and changes in health care contact days over time among traditional Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers.

jamanetwork.com

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 34m

It really does change your perspective to go through it yourself or with someone you love. Thanks so much for sharing your experience.

ishaniganguli.bsky.social @ishaniganguli.bsky.social · 1h

For older adults with metastatic cancer, each day spent on health care can take away from days that are often devastatingly limited. Our latest study led by Arjun Gupta and Shelley Jazowski with @dusetzinas.bsky.social and Avi Gupta is out now in @jamanetworkopen.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Health Care Contact Days in Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer

This cohort study examines patterns and changes in health care contact days over time among traditional Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers.

jamanetwork.com

Christopher Robertson @profcrobertson.bsky.social · 7h

Millions of Americans are skipping cancer screenings because they don't know they cost $0 out-of-pocket. New study with Wendy Epstein proves that info works. We're looking for partners 🤝 & funders 💵 to scale up and save lives. 🚀

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Joseph Ross @jsross119.bsky.social · 1d

Lots more detail in the paper (jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...), but our findings provide the first evaluation of FDAAA and its enhanced safety-related regulatory authorities, and its impact on drug safety and public health, and informs current PDUFA VII negotiations! @reshmagar.bsky.social (5/5)

Postmarket Drug Safety−Related Actions Before and After the FDA Amendments Act

This cross-sectional analysis assesses whether the US Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act was associated with differences in time to first postmarket drug safety−related action and whether the...

jamanetwork.com

Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 2d

Here, here.

"Congress must now also exercise its oversight responsibilities to ensure repairs to FDAs current and future capabilities, infrastructure, human resources, and reputation begin as soon as possible."

Big deal coming from investors/companies.

www.nopatientleftbehind.org/evidence-bas...

Supporting the Call for Evidence-Based Policy and Public Health Security — No Patient Left Behind

www.nopatientleftbehind.org

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 2d

Just a job where you were as hard as you can to cost your employer next to nothing?

Bhaven N. Sampat @sampat.bsky.social · 3d

Call open for an NBER conference on Medical Innovation Policy I'm co-organizing with @dusetzinas.bsky.social. Friday the 13th, naturally! Open to anyone (not just economists) working on the issues, and papers at different stages. www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Assessing the US Medical Innovation System Conference

www.nber.org

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 6d

Missed title opportunity of the decade.

sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 6d

"capitol gains" was *right there*

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 6d

The news right now is horrifying. Why would anyone do this to people?

claudia irizarry aponte @clauirizarry.bsky.social · 7d

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say

The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

www.thecity.nyc

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 6d

Well, that graph is something else.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou
WORKING PAPER 34524
DOI 10.3386/w34524
ISSUE DATE November 2025
Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.

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Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

sesbian lex fridman @vala.wtf · 6d

"capitol gains" was *right there*

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. This is the map.

claudia irizarry aponte @clauirizarry.bsky.social · 7d

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say

The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

www.thecity.nyc

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 14d

An auction full of Muppets and Jim Henson items you say? I have now identified the things in life I value and would spend a lot to own (that and my silly cats).

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 15d

Amazing! Science is so cool.
Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy share.google/POY4UXyNcBUL...

Hunter syndrome: Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy

Oliver has an inherited condition called Hunter syndrome, which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.

share.google

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17d

"Given that the Big Ten is about to create 'a for-profit company using what are essentially public dollars,' [a Penn State trustee] argued, boards need to know more in order to be able to advise their institutions accordingly."

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Secretive Big Ten Deal Riles Trustees

The Big Ten is weighing a $2.4 billion private equity deal. But multiple trustees at member institutions say they aren’t getting enough information and the proposal has been rushed.

www.insidehighered.com

Aaron Mitchell @thewonkologist.bsky.social · 19d

In good company alongside some cutting-edge basic science, our recent @bmj.com study examining the association between cancer drug profitability and utilization made the @mskcancercenter.bsky.social research highlights!
www.mskcc.org/news/msk-res...
@dusetzinas.bsky.social

MSK Research Highlights, November 20, 2025

New MSK research finds a potential therapeutic opportunity in regulatory T cells’ resilience to the loss of Foxp3; shows how cancer develops resistance to antibody-drug conjugates; develops a new syst...

www.mskcc.org

Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 20d

Michiganders are sharing their health insurance premiums increases with me… not 10% or 20%, but in one example - $200/month to $2900/month.

Republicans have tried to kill the ACA more than 70 times since 2010, and have never once had a plan for anything better.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 21d

Private Medicaid insurers list big networks of doctors to help get billions of taxpayer dollars. Many of those doctors don't actually see Medicaid patients.

Medicaid Insurers Promise Lots of Doctors. Good Luck Seeing One.

Many doctors listed in insurer networks treat few or no Medicaid recipients, leaving patients with long waits. “Don’t get sick.”

on.wsj.com

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22d

"I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally murder us, but I really need you to focus."

Don’t Let the Beasts from Revelation Distract You from Your Expense Reports

Thanks for coming in. Have a seat. I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally mur...

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Fright About Now 👻 Film Reviews @frightaboutnow.com · 24d

Sometimes, I kind of feel like a Frankenstein myself. Just a handful of mismatched limbs held together by vibes and one questionable thunderstorm.

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 24d

Wonderful! Congratulations!

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 24d

Sometimes I question my life decisions. Cheese judge would have been a good choice.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 24d

Connoisseurs, culinary experts and curious consumers flocked to the three-day event in a country where cheese is both food and folklore. https://to.pbs.org/49lNcOW

More than 5,200 cheeses compete at the World Cheese Awards in Switzerland

Connoisseurs, culinary experts and curious consumers flocked to the three-day event in a country where cheese is both food and folklore.

www.pbs.org

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 24d

Connoisseurs, culinary experts and curious consumers flocked to the three-day event in a country where cheese is both food and folklore. https://to.pbs.org/49lNcOW

More than 5,200 cheeses compete at the World Cheese Awards in Switzerland

Connoisseurs, culinary experts and curious consumers flocked to the three-day event in a country where cheese is both food and folklore.

www.pbs.org

Jeremy B. Yoder 🧬📊🌿🏳️‍🌈🖖🏻 @jbyoder.org · 25d

This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane

www.science.org/content/arti...

Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 28d

“We can have an active, robust discussion as a group of medical experts spontaneously, and so we’re doing more of that,” Makary said of his preference for convening roundtables.

Guess what roundtables don't have? FACA requirements to occur in public with the opportunity for public comment.

Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to see this study out in the world! Looks at the counterfactual of a world in which biosimilars didn't launch. Always fun working with @thewonkologist.bsky.social

Aaron Mitchell @thewonkologist.bsky.social · 28d

Our new study is out today in @jamanetworkopen.com!
We looked at trends in biologic drug prices after biosimilar competition.

Key takeaways: savings from biosimilars are substantial, but take longer to accrue than commonly seen with generic small molecules.

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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Biologic Drug Prices in Medicare Part B After Entry of Biosimilars to the Market

This cohort study evaluates the associations of biosimilar entry to the market with the prices of originator biologics under Medicare Part B reimbursement.

jamanetwork.com

Aaron Mitchell @thewonkologist.bsky.social · 28d

Our new study is out today in @jamanetworkopen.com!
We looked at trends in biologic drug prices after biosimilar competition.

Key takeaways: savings from biosimilars are substantial, but take longer to accrue than commonly seen with generic small molecules.

1/

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Biologic Drug Prices in Medicare Part B After Entry of Biosimilars to the Market

This cohort study evaluates the associations of biosimilar entry to the market with the prices of originator biologics under Medicare Part B reimbursement.

jamanetwork.com

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