Reiner Leidl
@leidl.bsky.social
Professor em. LMU Munich, interested in health, economics, policy and management
In unserer Welt im schnellen Wandel eine überaus starke Positionierung von Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, Präsidentin der EU Kommission @ec.europa.eu, zu Public Health, zum Engagement der EU und zu den globalen Herausforderungen; kurz skizziert in www.aerzteblatt.de/news/von-der...
Von der Leyen warnt vor Rückschlägen für Öffentliche Gesundheit – Deutsches Ärzteblatt
www.aerzteblatt.de
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
In unserer Welt im schnellen Wandel eine überaus starke Positionierung von Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, Präsidentin der EU Kommission @ec.europa.eu, zu Public Health, zum Engagement der EU und zu den globalen Herausforderungen; kurz skizziert in www.aerzteblatt.de/news/von-der...
A fascinating overview on the tremendous advances that AI already has achieved accross so many research topics in medicine. The talk also underlines the great potential of future progress to be enabled by AI in this field.
#Video: Eric Topol: AI’s Transformation of Medicine, Life Science, and Our Healthspan (Englisch mit Untertiteln)
Wie können wir mit datengesteuerten Technologien die Lebenserwartung verlängern, die Gesundheit verbessern, und welche Chancen ergeben sich daraus für die #Medizin?
#KI #AI
Wie können wir mit datengesteuerten Technologien die Lebenserwartung verlängern, die Gesundheit verbessern, und welche Chancen ergeben sich daraus für die #Medizin?
#KI #AI
Eric Topol: AI’s Transformation of Medicine, Life Science, and Our Healthspan (Englisch mit Untertiteln)
Professor Eric Topol is a world-leading cardiologist and geneticist, as well as a pioneer in the field of digital health at the Scripps Research Institute. In his keynote speech, he discusses the tran...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A fascinating overview on the tremendous advances that AI already has achieved accross so many research topics in medicine. The talk also underlines the great potential of future progress to be enabled by AI in this field.
Fascinating guidance of placing deep brain stimulation, by the patient with severe Parkinson’s Disease playing the clarinet during surgery! What would HTA institutions such as UK's NICE @nicecomms.bsky.social, or Germany's Federal Joint Committee @g-ba.de, say about this? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sussex Parkinson's patient played clarinet during brain surgery
Denise Bacon says she is experiencing improvements in her ability to walk.
www.bbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Fascinating guidance of placing deep brain stimulation, by the patient with severe Parkinson’s Disease playing the clarinet during surgery! What would HTA institutions such as UK's NICE @nicecomms.bsky.social, or Germany's Federal Joint Committee @g-ba.de, say about this? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Inspiring interview! On investing in a country that has imposed tariffs, hoping to attract foreign investors in the long term: In a world of coopetition among countries, investments decisions involve many other aspects, too. The hope seems risky thus, at least.
Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring Michael Froman on how Trump’s trade war has reshaped the global economy—and why there is no going back.
https://fam.ag/47DDaYD
https://fam.ag/47DDaYD
September 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Inspiring interview! On investing in a country that has imposed tariffs, hoping to attract foreign investors in the long term: In a world of coopetition among countries, investments decisions involve many other aspects, too. The hope seems risky thus, at least.
Great piece! Do you think a power up to exceed human intelligence could be regulated at all just by the latter? Or which incentives does it have to build its own AI regulatory system? Could we in case, influence that better than when educating humans, which obviously comes with many problems?
My column: The One Danger That Should Unite the
U.S. and China www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
U.S. and China www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Opinion | The One Danger That Should Unite the U.S. and China
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great piece! Do you think a power up to exceed human intelligence could be regulated at all just by the latter? Or which incentives does it have to build its own AI regulatory system? Could we in case, influence that better than when educating humans, which obviously comes with many problems?
Ein kantiger Beitrag der @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social! Wenn das Lockern der Schuldenbremse ein Freifahrtschein zum 'Weiter so' war, dann passt das Bild für den Blick in die Zukunft - nur die Farben innerhalb und außerhalb des Rings sind vertauscht.
Die Regierung schwimmt im Geld. Trotzdem braucht sie Milliarden. Wie kann das sein? Es mangelt Schwarz-Rot an Ehrgeiz, Mut und Reformwillen.
Bundeshaushalt: Haushalt am Abgrund
Die Regierung schwimmt im Geld. Trotzdem braucht sie Milliarden. Wie kann das sein? Es mangelt Schwarz-Rot an Ehrgeiz, Mut und Reformwillen.
www.wiwo.de
September 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Ein kantiger Beitrag der @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social! Wenn das Lockern der Schuldenbremse ein Freifahrtschein zum 'Weiter so' war, dann passt das Bild für den Blick in die Zukunft - nur die Farben innerhalb und außerhalb des Rings sind vertauscht.
Reposted by Reiner Leidl
Kürzungen bei #Entwicklungshilfen bedrohen die #Gesundheit von Menschen weltweit. Laut einer aktuellen #Studie drohen viele zusätzliche #Tuberkulose-Fälle: pharma-fakten.de/news/gekuerz...
Gekürzte Gelder im Kampf gegen Tuberkulose: Das könnte der Menschheit teuer zu stehen kommen
Kürzungen bei Entwicklungshilfen bedrohen die Gesundheit von Menschen weltweit. Laut einer aktuellen Studie drohen viele zusätzliche Tuberkulose-Fälle.
pharma-fakten.de
September 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Kürzungen bei #Entwicklungshilfen bedrohen die #Gesundheit von Menschen weltweit. Laut einer aktuellen #Studie drohen viele zusätzliche #Tuberkulose-Fälle: pharma-fakten.de/news/gekuerz...
Cyber security of vital infrastructure is a general, high-level security issue. Strategy and action seem to be needed at EU-level, e.g., by @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu and others. For open societies, maybe the mentioned testing of AI-supported digital-twins might offer a promising starting point.
Anne Neuberger calls on Washington to craft a new cyber strategy—and lays out how the United States can “achieve the benefits of digitization and a free Internet without compromising its national security”:
China Is Winning the Cyberwar
America needs a new strategy of deterrence.
www.foreignaffairs.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Cyber security of vital infrastructure is a general, high-level security issue. Strategy and action seem to be needed at EU-level, e.g., by @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu and others. For open societies, maybe the mentioned testing of AI-supported digital-twins might offer a promising starting point.
An impressive view upon challenges to the U.S. constitution, by David French. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Opinion | One Sentence in the Constitution Is Causing America Huge Problems
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
An impressive view upon challenges to the U.S. constitution, by David French. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Reposted by Reiner Leidl
🔬Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScience
🧬"We need women at the table. We need their voices to be heard, and we need the work to be centered around them." stressed Ru-fong Joanne Cheng, Gates Foundation. #WHS2024
💡More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9xQ3qNxO2A
🧬"We need women at the table. We need their voices to be heard, and we need the work to be centered around them." stressed Ru-fong Joanne Cheng, Gates Foundation. #WHS2024
💡More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9xQ3qNxO2A
February 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🔬Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScience
🧬"We need women at the table. We need their voices to be heard, and we need the work to be centered around them." stressed Ru-fong Joanne Cheng, Gates Foundation. #WHS2024
💡More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9xQ3qNxO2A
🧬"We need women at the table. We need their voices to be heard, and we need the work to be centered around them." stressed Ru-fong Joanne Cheng, Gates Foundation. #WHS2024
💡More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9xQ3qNxO2A
Tariffs may challenge drug availability, and cannot replace comprehensive, evidence-based pricing. Next to higher per capita income, lack of this control likely contributes to US drug prices exceeding those of the EU, which is even introducing joint assessments. health.ec.europa.eu/health-techn...
July 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Tariffs may challenge drug availability, and cannot replace comprehensive, evidence-based pricing. Next to higher per capita income, lack of this control likely contributes to US drug prices exceeding those of the EU, which is even introducing joint assessments. health.ec.europa.eu/health-techn...
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WHO condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on a building housing WHO staff in Deir al Balah in #Gaza, the mistreatment of those sheltering there, and the destruction of its main warehouse.
Read our full statement: www.who.int/news/item/21...
Read our full statement: www.who.int/news/item/21...
WHO operations compromised following attacks on warehouse and facility sheltering staff and families in Deir al Balah, Gaza
WHO condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on a building housing WHO staff in Deir al Balah, the mistreatment of those sheltering there, and the destruction of its main warehouse. Following inten...
www.who.int
July 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
WHO condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on a building housing WHO staff in Deir al Balah in #Gaza, the mistreatment of those sheltering there, and the destruction of its main warehouse.
Read our full statement: www.who.int/news/item/21...
Read our full statement: www.who.int/news/item/21...
In unseren Zeiten fällt mir noch der Hass auf Andersartige ein, sei es religiös oder weltanschaulich, ethnisch, politisch oder kulturell geprägt.
„Fünf große Feinde des Friedens wohnen in uns: nämlich Habgier, Ehrgeiz, Neid, Wut und Stolz. Wenn diese Feinde vertrieben werden könnten, würden wir zweifellos ewigen Frieden genießen.“

Francesco Petrarca
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Francesco Petrarca
20. Juli 1304 - 19. Juli 1374
July 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In unseren Zeiten fällt mir noch der Hass auf Andersartige ein, sei es religiös oder weltanschaulich, ethnisch, politisch oder kulturell geprägt.
What a frightening impact of the #BBB estimated, raising the figure reported in the @economist.com's post by 8,500 excess deaths when also including the end of enhanced subsidies to buy insurance! Would be helpful to have a peer-reviewed version published. See also ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
July 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
What a frightening impact of the #BBB estimated, raising the figure reported in the @economist.com's post by 8,500 excess deaths when also including the end of enhanced subsidies to buy insurance! Would be helpful to have a peer-reviewed version published. See also ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
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🇬🇧 🇩🇪 GMF's @georginaewright.bsky.social told the New York Times that new Kensington Treaty between Germany and the UK is the latest example of Europeans stepping up on security and defense and an “easy win” for the countries.
Read her full analysis: buff.ly/0HqU1ZX
Read her full analysis: buff.ly/0HqU1ZX
July 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 GMF's @georginaewright.bsky.social told the New York Times that new Kensington Treaty between Germany and the UK is the latest example of Europeans stepping up on security and defense and an “easy win” for the countries.
Read her full analysis: buff.ly/0HqU1ZX
Read her full analysis: buff.ly/0HqU1ZX
Thrilling thoughts on AI's potential to become dominant and fully autonomous. One issue might be interaction with the physical environment: could it build chips, generate electric power, ship goods and prevent floods, while ruling the globe? Man still might be helpful. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
(S+) Künstliche Intelligenz: Ex-OpenAI-Mitarbeiter über die Bedrohung durch schlaue Maschinen
Der amerikanische Forscher und ehemalige OpenAI-Mitarbeiter Daniel Kokotajlo erklärt, warum künstliche Intelligenz bald jede menschliche Tätigkeit übernehmen und sich dann gegen ihre Schöpfer wenden k...
www.spiegel.de
July 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thrilling thoughts on AI's potential to become dominant and fully autonomous. One issue might be interaction with the physical environment: could it build chips, generate electric power, ship goods and prevent floods, while ruling the globe? Man still might be helpful. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
An illustrative detail - has this been documented right after the Munich appeasement? The lessons of the latter should not be ignored today, as in a now famous speech at the #MSC conference this February, c.f. bsky.app/profile/leid...
From the National Archives’ MI5 exhibition: a document reporting Hitler’s description of Chamberlain as “an arsehole”.
July 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
An illustrative detail - has this been documented right after the Munich appeasement? The lessons of the latter should not be ignored today, as in a now famous speech at the #MSC conference this February, c.f. bsky.app/profile/leid...
A very impressive empowerment of AI capabilities, rendering striking results! Enabled by comprehensive access to personal files in the cloud, such as mails and other files saved there. The combination of personal database and AI process in one hand seems to do the trick.
"If OpenAI introduced us to the Hallmark-card version of AI writing, Google is ushering in a new chapter where chatbots are capable of drafting the sort of intimate letters you might write to your best friend," writes @lilashroff.bsky.social:
The AI Birthday Letter That Blew Me Away
Google is ushering in an era of custom chatbots.
bit.ly
July 7, 2025 at 6:14 AM
A very impressive empowerment of AI capabilities, rendering striking results! Enabled by comprehensive access to personal files in the cloud, such as mails and other files saved there. The combination of personal database and AI process in one hand seems to do the trick.
In order to defend life-saving institutions in times of sharp decline in global aid budgets, Gargee Ghosh of the #Gates Foundation points out the urgent needs to stabilize development finance, including more private capital, philanthropy, and blended finance. www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articl...
Development finance needs a reset, not a retreat
Gargee Ghosh calls for a bold reset of development finance amid a sharp decline in global aid budgets and compounding global crises.
www.gatesfoundation.org
July 4, 2025 at 6:58 AM
In order to defend life-saving institutions in times of sharp decline in global aid budgets, Gargee Ghosh of the #Gates Foundation points out the urgent needs to stabilize development finance, including more private capital, philanthropy, and blended finance. www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articl...
Reducing expenditure in an industry with a high intensity of personnel, is quite likely to be cutting jobs, too.
July 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Reducing expenditure in an industry with a high intensity of personnel, is quite likely to be cutting jobs, too.
A striking contribution on a decision situation to let the blood freeze in your veins. Then consider the personalities on stage, for a total of 9 nuclear powers known now to interact on this globe. @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social and Vipin Narang have sketched such new complexity. bsky.app/profile/pran...
For 80 years, the president has had the sole authority to order the use of U.S. nuclear weapons —a system that carries unnecessary risk, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. But there are ways to limit an impetuous president and reduce the likelihood of doomsday.
The President’s Weapon
Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?
bit.ly
June 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A striking contribution on a decision situation to let the blood freeze in your veins. Then consider the personalities on stage, for a total of 9 nuclear powers known now to interact on this globe. @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social and Vipin Narang have sketched such new complexity. bsky.app/profile/pran...
Contrasting current government policy, @ralfstegner.bsky.social and Rolf Mützenich, members of the German parliament, have pleaded to initiate peace talks with Russia, on Ukraine. Therefore, they should also consider this detailed opinion.
To end what has become a forever war, “Russia will need to be convinced that its objectives in Ukraine are unrealistic,” writes Lawrence Freedman.
Why Putin Still Fights
The Kremlin will end its war in Ukraine only when it knows that victory is impossible.
www.foreignaffairs.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Contrasting current government policy, @ralfstegner.bsky.social and Rolf Mützenich, members of the German parliament, have pleaded to initiate peace talks with Russia, on Ukraine. Therefore, they should also consider this detailed opinion.
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Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal.
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Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants
After a judge told agency to restore hundreds of killed grants, NIH backs off plans to cancel more existing projects
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June 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal.
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Calocedrus decurrens, 23 meters high, in the Park of the castle Blair Atholl, in the middle of the Scottish Highlands
June 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Calocedrus decurrens, 23 meters high, in the Park of the castle Blair Atholl, in the middle of the Scottish Highlands
Behind the US 🇺🇲 and China 🇨🇳 in the global tech race, there is still room for improvement for Europe 🇪🇺
America dominates the rankings of technological strength. But other countries are closing in https://econ.trib.al/sRIkB5E
Who is ahead in the global tech race?
A ranking of 25 countries shows that the West is in a precarious spot
econ.trib.al
June 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Behind the US 🇺🇲 and China 🇨🇳 in the global tech race, there is still room for improvement for Europe 🇪🇺