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Advice for working in DC. The optimizer’s curse. MDs and friendship. AI models have internal thoughts. The originator of “GOOOAL!!!”
Category: Current Events
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Why were COVID trials so fast. Innovation without access? The growing tension in rare disease coverage Why rent control fails Spending growth at the state level Screwworms and flesh-eating bacteria.
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GLP-1 and cancer. Healthcare mortgages for gene therapies. Argentia vs. Chile: battle of the economies. Medicaid work rules explained. Watch the World Cup in English or en Español?
Healthcare Economist Weekly Reader
FDA accepts 1st In Silico Drug Development Tool. Why GLP-1’s got more affordable. BALANCE after CMS GLP-1 decision. How to socialize scientific ideas in the age of AI. Mapping the Ebola outbreak. 1985-2023: MIT’s faculty grew 9%…Administrative staff grew 189%
Are Veterans benefits about to become more generous?
Perhaps, if the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act becomes law. The bill just recently passed the House of Representatives. Newsweek summarizes the bill’s provisions as follows: The bill would increase Dependency and Indemnity Compensation benefits by 1.5 percent over two years. Those payments are provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to…
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Ebola outbreak in the Congo. AI Mathematicians. Why Long-Term Care Policy Keeps Failing. ISPOR: first, second and third plenary. The Indiana Bears?
ISPOR 2026
Excited to be attending ISPOR 2026 next week. I’m looking forward to some great plenary sessions, presenting my research on “The Extent of Treatment Response and Preference Heterogeneity in Major Depressive Disorder: Implications for Population-Level Resource Allocation” with co-authors Nadine Zawadzki and Cheryl Neslusan, and meeting up with old colleagues. See you in Philadelphia!
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Transparency and PBMs. Moral hazard of HAART. Accents and social hierarchy. What is a community healthcare worker? RJK, Jr. vs. Gavi
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Simulate the risk AI displaces your job (methodology) LA’s “Great Stone Mother” Hospital. KFF CEO: What’s Wrong with U.S. Health Care CDC blocks publication of a study showing benefits of COVID vaccine Meta, AI and layoffs.
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What can we learn about nursing and AI from The Pitt. FDA expediting first-in-human trials? IIA. Measles back in SF. US fertility at all-time low.