Pharma companies have long said that it's unfair to look at the gross increase in drug prices because of rebates they pay. But data presented at MedPAC this month show that brand-name drug prices more than doubled from 2010-2020 **net of rebates.**

No matter what the sheriff says, reporting is not a crime. I stand with Alene Tchekmedyian and my peers at the Los Angeles Times against this latest outrage and abuse of power.

We’ve gotten used to fast⬆–fast⬇surges. It’s been hard to disentangle why: (a) rapid ⬆in population immunity or (b) rapid response by people & policymakers (mandates, ⬆masking, ⬇travel, etc). I’m afraid we're going to see what happens when⬆in cases doesn’t cause much (b).

Hugely proud of Lisa Halverstadt and Peggy Peattie for their incredible work on this story but even more so for this result. Impact journalism at its finest voiceofsandiego.org/2022/07/01/mor…

Best news of the year👇🏻

BREAKING NEWS from La Prensa San Diego - LaPrensa.org: Bombshell confession in #101AshStreet scandal hours before San Diego City Council plans a vote on buying out criminal suspects for $132M laprensa.org/michellwhistle…

Stay at a place long enough and you see a lot of people leave, sadly. But a U-T without Karla Peterson is something I have a hard time imagining. The high quality of her writing was surpassed only by her quality as a person. Every newsroom should have a Karla, who I'll miss.

Summary of major findings in this compelling look at a critical, and critically unsupported, industry from Kristen Taketa .🧵 👇

Revolt inside City of San Diego real estate shop alleges waste and abuse sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/…

The ongoing rise in congenital syphilis is heartbreaking. As a skeptical journalist I can say unequivocally: Every woman must have prenatal care. sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/st…

Per usual a great game story on deadline by the best college basketball writer in the country ⁦Mark Zeigler⁩. And of course ⁦K.C. Alfred⁩ gets the historic shot sending ⁦San Diego State Men's Basketball⁩ on. sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/aztecs/…

A team of us spent months crafting a minute-by-minute account of our mental health care system. Going in, there was no way to predict the violence and healing we'd witness. But any 3 days could have been picked, because these days are every day. sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/st…

Bravo!

It’s stunning that, after decades of focus on preventing medical harm, one in four Medicare patients is still estimated to be injured when receiving care.

Wow WOW wow who is ready for a fundamental change in our weather pattern next week??!? The NWS Climate Prediction Center is calling for a much above normal chance of precipitation, and slight chances for below normal temperatures. How are we feeling about this, SoCal?

This is so wonderful for my former colleague, desk mate in the charming-crummy asbestos laden 3rd floor press room in the old courthouse, and editor Dana Littlefield. Flowers aren’t enough but they’ll do just fine. And of course it’s the gracious Judge Michael T. Smyth with the handoff.

This is so rewarding. 35 years ago, when I started Masimo I had Stork, a reliable pulse oximeter that can warn parents of dangerous hypoxemia, in mind. Today, with clearance by the FDA, we can finally deliver it to parents.

Big #AI discovery: a new structural class of antibiotics (the last one took 38 years) with multiple compounds effective vs methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, without toxicity nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Cancer vaccines are just so interesting. sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/st…

A nasal spray prevented 80% of Covid infections; ~300,000 people in China have received it. [called SA55, a broad spectrum monoclonal antibody, developed by Yunlong Richard Cao and colleagues at Peking University] nature.com/articles/s4158… science.org/content/articl…