The Trump admin's new talking point on the Big Beautiful Bill: we're going to deport all the farm laborers and make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance.

My mother, who was an asylum seeker at the time this photo was taken, taught me how to walk at MacArthur Park. Today, that same park is filled with federal agents terrorizing the very community that raised me. The Trump administration wants you to believe this park is overrun

1/n This is nonsense, the Covid death rates globally = a mirror image of where people weren’t getting vaccinated. Look at the next two attached figures

NEW GALLUP POLL: the pendulum has swung drastically since last year. 🟢 just 30% want immigration decreased (55% last year) 🟢 79% of Americans think immigration is GOOD for the country (record high) 🟢 Path to citizenship (78%) beats mass deportation (38%)

People who get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could soon see their monthly premiums sharply increase as subsidies expire and insurers propose a major premium hike for 2026. nbcnews.com/health/health-…

Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving.

Kicked off junior year of residency on the 🫀 service—grateful to have learned from and worked alongside such an incredible team 🙏🏽

In JAMA we explore the recent EO on most favored nation drug pricing, why we shouldn't import prices from other countries but rather the process they use to get better prices, and chart a different path to lower US drug prices by linking to value jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.

I'm sorry but what? Our Health Secretary says that he sees kids at airports and can tell by their faces that they have mitochondrial challenges This is wacky, flat-earth, voodoo stuff people This is not normal

A simple reason RFK Jr doesn’t understand that nutrition and lifestyle medicine are already a huge part of a modern medical school education is he didn’t f****** go to medical school and isn’t a f****** doctor. Hope this helps.

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

I joined eight former CDC directors—spanning Republican and Democratic administrations—to share this warning: our nation’s health is at risk.  The very systems that protect us from disease, cancer, and future health threats are being dismantled. nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opi…

🚨Cancer patients have medical debt in collections that lasts for years after diagnosis/treatment despite >95% insurance coverage. After years of analysis, we report in JAMA Oncology on debt, collections, bankruptcy, & credit scores in >74k control-matched patients over 10 years.

Grateful to Miss Universe - Nicaragua and its phenomenal team for the recognition at such a special celebration of Nicaragua’s culture, beauty, and strength. Always proud of my roots 🇳🇮

Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in

Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.

LLM-assisted translation has the potential to ensure that people who don’t speak/read English well can receive high quality healthcare. Our team (+Ivan Lopez, Jorge A Rodriguez MD, Jonathan Chen) published a roadmap outlining how health systems can make this a reality ⬇️

In 18 years as an ER doc, I ask about immigration status about as often as I ask about insurance—which is never My job is to respond to the person in front me, as if neither immigration or insurance matters Because in that moment, neither of those things matter So tell me,

Kind of crazy how I was homeless 16 years ago & now I’m talking to doctors across the country about this experience & my ideas to improve our healthcare system so that they can take better care of patients living in poverty. Thank you for the invite UAMS Health Arkansas Children's 🙏🏽