Every physician needs to have a basic level of AI literacy now. That might require some sort of licensing exam.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/d...

AI tools often use a human-in-the-loop approach, counting on doctors as a backstop. Our training, however, doesn’t prepare us for this role. For @statnews.com, I argue that doctors should pass a driver’s license test for AI, to use it safely and effectively.

www.statnews.com/2025/11/19/d...

Cardiologists often struggle to assess heart attack risk. New startups using AI could help.

For @technologyreview.com, I wrote about AI-derived coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores—potentially a public health breakthrough, but with thorny ethical and financial implications. Special thanks to @adamrodmanmd.bsky.social

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Apple’s new “Hypertension Notifications” may be slick — but I see more caveats than headlines. My latest column for @statnews.com explores how this sits uncomfortably between wellness and medicine. Thanks @thekibosch.bsky.social for editing and publishing!

www.statnews.com/2025/10/13/a...

For a generation, statins have been among the most powerful tools we have to prevent heart disease.

But too few people take them.

In my first column for @statnews.com, I argue for an overdue step: making them available over the counter.

www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/s...

Healthy eating is already too expensive—now with tariffs, it’s about to get much worse.

My latest for @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/03/10/t...

Thanks @thekibosch.bsky.social for publishing!

Maybe a more controversial take: it's legitimate for the new admin to consider taking a different approach to American global health involvement.

But to implement a haphazard 'pause' in this way belies an understanding of how this work, and will kill people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.”

USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This is a tragic and must-read article about the total devastation that the 90 day stop work order is causing internationally. In that time for example an estimated 136,000 babies could acquire HIV.

Leaving the WHO, freezing PEPFAR and the USAID... the US is abandoning it's global health leadership, leaving the world a less safe place and creating a vacuum for China and other actors to fill

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

RIP Jimmy Carter, whose global health efforts, as @helenbranswell.bsky.social writes, articulated the art of the possible. He, and the Carter Center, arguably forged a model of the outward-looking post-presidential activities continuing to do so much good today.

www.statnews.com/2024/12/29/h...

Seven months ago, I stood in a Senate hearing room and watched protesters yell at UnitedHealth’s CEO about care denials.

It’s a moment I couldn’t get out my head this week. Been reflecting on that and other reactions in the wake of Brian Thompson’s shocking death — what it means and where it goes.

🔥 This week's Arsenal long-read is up.

Observations, stats, and diagrams on: the Inswinger Era, Saka's levels, Jorginho's anticipation, Ødegaard's movement, Rice's legs, why that first half felt static, Saliba!, Raya's distribution, and a lot more. 6,000+ words, just for you:

For @statnews.bsky.social, I wrote about RFK Jr.’s nomination, his disqualifying views, the MAHA movement, and why America needs a Marshall Plan for obesity—not wellness conspiracies. Thanks @thekibosch.bsky.social for publishing!

www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/r...