“I am so impressed by the love of me!”

I am so pleased that Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joined us today to share his wisdom and celebrate the future public health leaders who graduated today.

Defending the freedom of the press isn't just about delivering the news. It's about defending our democracy via public access. NAHJ proudly stands w/our allies calling on Texas DPS to drop the spurious charges against photojournalist Carlos Sanchez #JournalismIsNotACrime

Toluse Olorunnipa From: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Come for Dan Diamond's excellent breakdown of a high-stakes moment for the nation's largest health care company; subscribe for great stuff daily from the Post's staff and ours. KFF Health News

SCOOP illegal border crossings in April have dipped to ~130k, a slight decline during a season when they typically jump. Migration remains high by historic standards but a crackdown in Mexico is keeping numbers down & helping Biden. How long can it last? washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

1/ Today The Washington Post launched a new series on sea level rise, 'The Drowning South,' which captures how higher oceans off the U.S. Gulf and Southeast are supercharging flooding there, reshaping life in the region. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

An absolute must-read. IVF errors aren’t tracked and many get buried in NDAs so they stay out of the public eye.

SCOOP: New, serious safety risk related to MorphoSys’ cancer drug complicates, potentially threatens, Novartis acquisition statnews.com/2024/04/28/mor… via STAT Adam Feuerstein ✡️

If a fertility clinic lost or destroyed your genetic material, how would you know? Clinics are not required to report to anyone. Yeganeh Torbati is on book leave in 2024 and I took a look at this problem: washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…

Errors and accidents often go unreported in the burgeoning fertility industry, which is largely self-policed and not mandated to notify even patients of mistakes.

Read Lenny Bernstein & Yeganeh Torbati is on book leave in 2024's dive into the opaque world of IVF.

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Older adults who MDs have decided should be admitted to the hospital are spending hours, even more than a day, in ERs waiting for beds to open up. With deleterious impacts. My latest. cnn.com/2024/04/26/hea…

The Washington Women in Journalism Awards honors The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig as Outstanding Journalist in Print. 'So many important truths would never have come to light w/o women journalists dedicated to telling them,' Leonnig expressed. Read more: bit.ly/3W4RNym

Women treated by female doctors more likely to survive: study, by Liz Szabo today.com/video/could-th… via TODAY #WomenInMedicine

I can’t wait to meet this guy and compare notes.
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I want people to understand how impressive this is. Those are 10-0 nylon sutures closing an irregular corneal laceration. The cornea is ~550 microns thick. That is precise work. Vision saved. Well done!

STAT won another NIHCM Award!

My colleagues Bob Herman and Casey Ross are winners of the 2024 NIHCM Investigative and General Reporting Award for a series of stories showing how insurers use AI to deny care to sick Americans.

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This is STAT's third

It’s Monday, April 15, 2024.

WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by the FSB Mar 29, 2023.

One year and 17 days ago

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FREE EVAN NOW!

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Welcome to Breezewood. It's looked like this since I had to go through it regularly to get from DC to Ann Arbor in the latter 1970s.

Sorry, but how do you call a foul there?