"The 1,000 days from conception to a child’s second birthday is considered the most critical period for neurological, physical, metabolic, and immune system development ...For babies born in March 2020, those 1,000 days have just ended."

For health care workers -- and really everyone -- who is way too hard on themselves as they push on through exceptionally difficult times, Jason Han has some wise words.

“What could be more damaging than social isolation, experts said, is what young children observe in their parents.”

She did it, American Nurses Association. Sam Roecker broke the old record by more than 20 minutes #Boston126 inquirer.com/health/sam-roe…

Among the many ways, say @BDeHaven616 and Stuart Isaacs, is that pox viruses have evolved dozens of proteins that can suppress or disable the alarm bells in the mammalian immune systems. Ain't evolution a gas?? #MonkeyPox inquirer.com/health/monkeyp…

Parents! Talk to my friend and colleague @jasmlaughlin please!

Thought-provoking piece from Susan Snyder about how Temple Med School is achieving more meaningful diversity eedition.inquirer.com/infinity/artic… - A new kind of med school test

"We are, for many of our patients, their only source of health care.”

“You don’t have to be a man to know football. Who said that? Where? Show it to me.” Great ⁦⁦Matt Breen⁩ piece on mother-son team in Cheltenham in ⁦The Philadelphia Inquirer⁩ inquirer.com/high-school-sp… via The Philadelphia Inquirer

“If you hurt an animal for no reason, because you’re actually committing fraud, that’s pretty heinous." inquirer.com/health/penn-sc…

It's hard to think the pandemic is over if you're in mourning over a recent COVID death. We want to tell your story.

“The views expressed by Scott Adams are unambiguously racist,” said Gabriel Escobar, editor and senior vice president of The Inquirer. “As with all race-baiting, his comments are profoundly disturbing and dangerous. We will no longer publish Dilbert.” trib.al/Sb9kSBE

For a preview of the remarkable scientists you will encounter in the APS exhibition Pursuit & Persistence: 300 Years of Women in Science, check out our coverage from Tom Avril at The Philadelphia Inquirer inquirer.com/health/women-s… #womeninscience #hisSTM

'You cannot be wed to a workplace. You have to be wed to yourself.' Words to live by from Amy Bernstein, editor of Harvard Business Review on @ResaELewiss podcast thevisiblevoicespodcast.com/episodes/OngG2…

“In 1777 at Valley Forge, Gen. George Washington inoculated his troops against smallpox. It was one of the first such efforts to prevent infectious disease on a mass scale.”

Feeling super grateful to the kind soul who turned my (foolishly dropped) purse in to the wonderful Miss Helen at Jefferson’s customer service. It’s feeling like the Station of Brotherly Love for sure, SEPTA_SOCIAL!

Excited to share Navigate Philly, a free @phillyinquirer newsletter series (written by me 👋🏽) to help my fellow Philly newcomers get settled into the city we now call home. I hope you'll join me on this fun journey! Sign up: inquirer.com/newsletters/na…

BREAKING: Temple's acting president and long-time employee JoAnne A. Epps has died. She collapsed on stage at a university event a short time ago. inquirer.com/education/joan…

It doesn't get any bigger than this. Everyone who benefited from a #COVID19 vaccine should be celebrating. Congratulations to The Drew Weissman Lab Penn Medicine. inquirer.com/health/coronav…

If you work, learn or get care in Philly’s health care space, you need this newsletter from my talented The Philadelphia Inquirer colleagues Letitia Stein Aubrey Whelan and Abraham Gutman . inquirer.com/newsletters/he…