I was a dr before the Affordable Care Act. And people w/ cancer did hit lifetime caps & had further treatment denied by insurers. They were dropped from plans, declared bankruptcy, & died. We are NEVER EVER going back to that. #PresidentialDebate2024 #MedTwitter

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New: Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She'd told her husband that the medical team said it couldn't act until the fetal heartbeat stopped. propub.li/4f2ILsh

#AI has the potential to aid in leveraging patient data to make clinical care decisions, but there are also risks. Jenna Wiens, Kayte Spector-Bagdady & Bhramar Mukherjee focus on the role of genetics and AI in precision #health, including in prevention and primary care: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38724019/

This is real. Your vote is anonymous and confidential. Who you voted for is YOUR secret. No one can know unless you tell them. When I do instagram Q&As (where people can ask me questions privately and have them publicly answered), this comes up a lot more than you’d think.

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Why put the duty to report medical conditions associated with impaired driving on doctors and disincentivize care and honest communication? Wouldn’t it make more sense to start requiring a repeating driving test at a certain age? nytimes.com/2024/11/04/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Thank you to Brigadier General Carol Ann Fausone and Jim Fausone for bringing UM and VA leaders together to discuss our partnership in veterans health. I appreciate their dedication and devotion to our veterans.  I was so impressed with the Lt. Colonel Charles S. Kettles VA

Many who undergo direct-to-consumer genetic testing don’t realize that their data are being licensed to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. JAMA Viewpoint authors Kayte Spector-Bagdady and Anya E. R. Prince discuss this gap between consumer expectations and what is being done.

Viewpoint highlights 3 interdigitating themes—vulnerability, inclusivity, and global justice—central to the 2024 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki. ja.ma/3Wg5BoN

This Editorial from Holly Fernandez Lynch and Daniel Kramer highlights the need for regulatory clarity to support ethical research in clinical care settings. ja.ma/3Ccu9YY

Viewpoint: Nicole Huberfeld and Michael R. Ulrich discuss the US Supreme Court's decision in United States v Skrmetti, which will determine if Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors violates the Equal Protection Clause. ja.ma/3BQSWC0

So fun to get to work with Prof. Prince and JAMA on this! They didn't have to cut me saying "I told you so" from the video because I didn't say it. But, 9 years ago... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Had an amazing time catching up with friends and colleagues including the wonderful ⁦John Z. Ayanian⁩ at the ⁦U-M IHPI⁩ coffee hour ☕️ (Look at that foam! Such art!! 〽️) (guest appearance by ⁦⁦JAMA⁩ )

This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

Brilliant response from Georgetown Law in clear-eyed defense of student and faculty rights: "The First Amendment guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it."

The 23andMe Special Committee released news today indicating their plan to take the company through the Chapter 11 process.   While I am disappointed that we have come to this conclusion and my bid was rejected, I am supportive of the company and I intend to be a bidder.   I have

As 23andMe files for bankruptcy and Wojcicki steps down as CEO (so she can bid) Anya Prince & my recent JAMA piece discusses what can - and should - happen to the over 1 million private genomes it has collected

“Many of the warnings from the media and attorneys general are focused on genetic information because it is unique to only one person. But direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies also retain a massive amount of personal information from the surveys consumers are asked to