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by Cary P. Gross — Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Dana Howard

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*NEW study Happy to be able to share our work exploring gaps in the quality of #cancer care for patients with criminal justice involvement. There are opportunities for improvement.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam.... Grateful to work with Drs. Ilana Richman, Emily Wang & team. @jama.com
Incarceration and Quality of Cancer Care
This cohort study evaluates the quality of cancer care received by people with a history of incarcaration compared with those who have not been incarcerated in the US.
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by Fumiko Chino — Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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I am honored to give the #ASCOQLTY25 Simone Award to @drrobinyabroff.bsky.social today. Dr Yabroff has a profound impact as a researcher, policy advocate, & mentor. It's hard to find someone in health services research that hasn't been positively influenced by her intellect, wit, & warmth.🏆
ASCO JOSEPH SIMONE QUALITY CARE AWARD Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA, FASCO American Cancer Society
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Cas Mudde, Marc Lynch , and 3 more

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Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
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by Fumiko Chino — Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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New in @medpagetoday.com: Financial side effects from #breastcancer treatment can create life-altering problems, including distress, debt, & employment disruptions #bcsm #financialToxicity

Proud of the work of @mdanderson.bsky.social PGY5 Dr Kamaria Lee in the @ascocancer.bsky.social
#ASCOEdBook
Kamaria Lee and Fumiko Chino on Financial Toxicity and Breast Cancer
Still needed: interventions at government, institutional, and provider levels
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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Only 4 US states comprehensively regulate IV hydration spa governance, prescriber credentials, dispensing, and compounding practices.

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Map of the USA showing state-level policies for intravenous hydration spas. States are shaded or patterned to represent guidelines on dispensing, governance, prescribing, and compounding, with Alaska and Hawaii shown as insets.
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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A large Yale study of pts with #cancer in Connecticut found modest declines in #opioid prescribing overall—and sharper drops in some groups, including a 40% decrease in pts without pain. yalecancercenter.org/news-article...
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Yale Study Finds Reduced Opioid Prescribing for Some Patients with Cancer
An analysis of opioid use and prescriptions for more than 10,000 Connecticut patients with cancer found modest decreases in both new and additional painkiller
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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**important new paper**

Privacy and Dignity for Undocumented People? Clinicians' Duties and Responses to Patient Immigration Status Inquiries

David M Chooljian et al. @annalsats.bsky.social

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Privacy and Dignity for Undocumented People? Clinicians' Duties and Responses to Patient Immigration Status Inquiries - PubMed
Privacy and Dignity for Undocumented People? Clinicians' Duties and Responses to Patient Immigration Status Inquiries
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by Michael Barnett — Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Rishi K. Wadhera, Michael Barnett

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New paper w/ Brian McGarry, Ashvin Gandhi, and Drew Wilcock in @jamainternalmed.com!

Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??

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Question Has hospital length of stay increased more for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries than for traditional Medicare beneficiaries since the COVID-19 pandemic?Findings In this cohort study involving more than 89 million hospitalizations from 2017 to the third quarter of 2023, Medicare Advantage beneficiaries experienced disproportionately greater increases in extended hospital stays, especially among those discharged to skilled nursing facilities.Meaning These findings suggest that the Medicare Advantage plan design and practices may contribute to hospital discharge delays, with implications for patient outcomes and hospital capacity as enrollment continues to rise.
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by Megan L. Ranney — Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Julie Ward, Megan L. Ranney

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I have a list of things we can do to change this tempo of tragedy

The proposals are based on real data
They have had signals of efficacy

It may feel hopeless today but:

I refuse to give up.

Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Aug 27
BREAKING: Two children were killed and 17 people injured in a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school, police said. The shooter is also dead.
Minnesota governor says a shooting has occurred at a Minneapolis school
Authorities say a shooting has erupted during the first week of classes at a Minneapolis Catholic school. There was no immediate information on any injuries. Gov.
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by Harlan M. Krumholz — Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Ruairidh Milne

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“Never delegate understanding.”

That quote stuck with me—and it’s now the title of my new Substack.

I’ll be writing about health, science, & how these things can be understandable.

Subscribe here → neverdelegateunderstanding.substack.com/subscribe

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Subscribe to Never Delegate Understanding
Making health and science understandable. Click to read Never Delegate Understanding, by Harlan Krumholz, a Substack publication. Launched 2 days ago.
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by Fumiko Chino — Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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#Medicaldebt is an indicator of an inherent failure of our health system to protect the most vulnerable. Aggressively pursuing it does little to serve the financial bottom line of a hospital, while exposing the most vulnerable & their families to a lifetime of downstream consequences.

@jama.com
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Tim Richardson , and 1 more

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few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jul 29
Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew.

“Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse.

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NIH spending battle’s ripple effect
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Stacie B. Dusetzina

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Now do the Department of Defense budget, Andrew.

“Washington has thrown billions at NIH for decades with little accountability and few measurable outcomes,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Future Pulse.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...
NIH spending battle’s ripple effect
www.politico.com
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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From a source inside the National Cancer Institute:

“Everyone is scrambling to figure out how we’re supposed to work to serve the public when we can’t engage at all.”
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Elizabeth Saunders, Sarah E. Gollust

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Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy
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"Even though I'm free, I ain't free." Formerly incarcerated Black men describe ongoing anxiety, hypervigilance, and feeling institutionalized years after release from prison. theconversation.com/i-just-could...
By @helenaaddiphd.bsky.social @yale.edu
‘I just couldn’t stop crying’: How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released
Over 2 dozen Philadelphia men shared their experiences with trauma and psychological distress as they worked to rebuild their lives after release.
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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Among FDA anticancer drug approvals from 2009 to 2020, only 27 next-in-class drugs had direct randomized clinical trial comparisons with first-in-class drugs. https://ja.ma/3Gs6k1J
Figure. Network Diagram of Randomized Clinical Trials That Have Tested an Approved Next-In-Class Anticancer Drug Against an In-Class Comparator (N = 27)
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Robert Wolfe

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As a longtime public health reporter covering the rise of anti-vaccine groups, I have seen them use personal stories to raise doubts about vaccines.
Today I saw immunization advocates push back by highlighting the stories of the toll of vaccine-preventable illness. A thread:
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by Cary P. Gross

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Happy birthday, Fumiko!
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Edward Witten, David Kaufman , and 4 more

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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence. ​
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by Megan L. Ranney — Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Kai Chen

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America's health data system is fragmented, outdated, and hard to access. This slows the response to emerging health threats. PopHIVE unites diverse partners and data in one location, creating a solution for improved public health data for action.

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“National health data has been too fragmented and too slow for too long. PopHIVE changes that.” - Dean Megan L. Ranney PopHIVE unites diverse partners and data in one location, creating a solution for improved public health data for action.
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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Hepatitis B can be passed from parent to baby at birth - and when that happens, the consequences can be deadly. It is unscientific and dangerous to intentionally ignore the success of U.S. vaccination programs or argue that the U.S. should not vaccinate babies for hepatitis B at birth.
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by Anne Applebaum — Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Naomi Klein, David Lazer , and 7 more

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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Joseph S. Ross

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Proud to celebrate our Yale NCSP 2025 graduates! 🎉 Their leadership & commitment to improving healthcare will make a real difference. #NCSP #YaleNCSP

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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Ameet Sarpatwari

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Makary makes many claims here that sound like "common sense" but are problematic.
1st he says FDA's reg reqs have made the US "less competitive in the global race for new drugs and treatments." I'm not aware of any sponsor planning to skip the US market.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | How we plan to cut FDA drug approval time by months
Qualifying manufacturers will be able to submit some data while clinical trials are ongoing.
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Adam Gaffney

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Our study examining health impacts — including deaths — from Medicaid cuts was just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine

Overall, the Big, Beautiful Bill Act could lead to more than 16,500 medically-preventable deaths due to these cuts
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Projected Effects of Proposed Cuts in Federal Medicaid Expenditures on Medicaid Enrollment, Uninsurance, Health Care, and Health | Annals of Internal Medicine
In January 2025, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives’ Budget Committee offered a list of possible spending reductions to offset revenue losses from proposed tax cuts. In May, the C...
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Jennifer Bussell, Kai Chen , and 1 more

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Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”

In the US alone.

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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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Reposted by Cary P. Gross

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In a new study, Yale researchers, including Profs. Xiaomei Ma and Kai Chen, found that ozone pollution, also called smog, and high temperatures together increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack. Learn more ⬇️
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Star music, Kavli kudos, and summertime heart risks
Researchers listen to “music” made by stars, consider the heart risks of hot, smoggy days, and earn kudos in geoscience, public health, and systems biology.
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by Dana Howard — Reposted by Cary P. Gross, Dana Howard

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Hi All! Testing the waters about whether to join Bluesky. Just wanted to share a research letter that me and colleagues have out today in @jamanetworkopen.com. Check it out: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Relocation Post-Dobbs Among Clinicians Providing Abortions
This survey study compares the proportion of abortion-providing clinicians who changed primary state of practice after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022.
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