Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA I totally agree. Many years ago (in the 1990's), when I was Chief of Surgery, I was publicly excoriated by JCAHO reviewers who opened an ortho chart and failed us because the orthopedist did not have a comprehensive family and social history. Never mind that that the team

Everyone missed the real China story. While we debated TikTok, Chinese scientists quietly built 1,250 novel drug candidates—up from 160 in 2015. That's not a typo. They added 1,090 innovative medicines in 9 years. The entire EU added 200. Here's how they broke pharma's

But here's what should terrify Western pharma: China solved the industry's biggest bottleneck. Finding patients for clinical trials: 👉US cancer trials: 17.5 months to recruit 👉China: 8.7 months When you can test 2 drugs in the time competitors test 1, compound advantages

Remember when "Made in China" meant cheap knockoffs? Now, China has more drugs in FDA/EMA expedited review than the entire European Union. These aren't generics—they're potential cures for cancers Keytruda can't touch. Your next life-saving medicine has a 50/50 chance of being

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Engineers have created a coin‑sized implant that Daniel Anderson says “is always ready to protect patients from low blood sugar.” It senses low glucose, heats a shape‑memory alloy, and releases glucagon - stabilizing blood sugar within 10 minutes. news.mit.edu/2025/implantab…

Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're

It’s hard to imagine a better use for AI than OpenEvidence. Daniel Nadler and his world-class team at OpenEvidence are building what I believe will become an AI-era treasure—a life-saving resource for doctors, patients, and their families. I can’t imagine the future without

NEW: OpenEvidence, the AI medical assistant, just raised $210M at a $3.5B valuation led by GV & Kleiner Perkins. Now used by 40% of US doctors, it handles 8.5M clinical consults/month. The company also launched DeepConsult, an AI agent for PhD-level evidence syntheses.

The initiative to curb abusive skin substitute billing in the Medicare proposed PFS rule is highly technical, but also raises an interesting question: How does the political economy of health spending change when a large constituency of providers has an interest in lower costs?

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Internet search traffic for health information has dropped precipitously, the outlier vs drop in all other categories, as chatbots and genAI take hold economist.com/business/2025/…

Johngalt2024 Acyn Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was a math prodigy turned domestic terrorist who mailed bombs from 1978-1995, killing 3 and injuring 23. Trump claims his uncle John taught him at MIT, but that's false—Kaczynski attended Harvard and Michigan, with no MIT connection. Geniuses and

This would be a very cool gig for a MIT Hacking Medicine alum. DM me if interested working in Berlin w awesome team

"Molecule didn't just talk about fixing science. They built the infrastructure for it." Science has always been progressing - from the Enlightenment Age to the Space Race, we have always pushed boldly forward. DeSci is the next gen. x.com/queenEddie001/…

Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation. (Photo: Mauricio Candela for Forbes) trib.al/g95Pd2a

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Poignant and insightful view by medical students on the impact of AI and the role of humans in clinical care NEJM AI ai.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/AI… We need to figure out how to make students like these our future leaders in healthcare.

I listened to this planet money podcast on the university funding cuts - one interesting tidbit i learned here is that for a lot of these schools the big revenue generator is hospital services they look through the line items of WashU and it’s 50% of their revenue