Cast Of The Right Bronchial Tree: 🩸Man coughs up blood #clot shaped like the lung passage it was blocking 🩸3 branches in upper lobe (blue) 🩸2 branches in middle lobe (white) 🩸5 branches in lower lobe (black) 🩸Had increased levels of fibrinogen 👉nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

In their new Forefront article, Troyen Brennan + William H. Shrank from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health + Humana discuss how no fewer than eight bipartisan bills to change pharmacy benefit manager practices have recently been introduced/advanced out of committee in Congress. bit.ly/3OLIpu9

A new antibiotic for gonorrhea is nearing washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Long lines, ringing phones, harried pharmacists—⁦Joseph Walker⁩ on what’s ailing your local pharmacy wsj.com/health/healthc…

Senate confirms Monica Bertagnolli as NIH director statnews.com/2023/11/07/nih… via Sarah Owermohle for STAT

Some drugs have both a higher and a lower price—and yet health plans are picking the more expensive option, ⁦Peter Loftus⁩ and ⁦Jared S. Hopkins⁩ report wsj.com/health/healthc…

A step toward an Amazon Prime Health product? wsj.com/tech/amazon-to…

The Wall Street Journal calls on industry’s support to free reporter detained in Russia thedrum.com/news/2023/11/0… via @thedrum

Hospital E.R.s have seen a surge of children with mental-health issues. Some stay for weeks waiting for ​psychiatric treatment. “It disturbs me on a level I really can't describe.” By Dan Frosch and Melanie Evans wsj.com/health/healthc…

“Just like we need to make time in our busy lives to be physically active, we need to make time in our busy lives to be socially active.” ⁦By Brianna Abbott⁩ wsj.com/health/wellnes…

George Yancopoulos of Regeneron gave a master class on how learnings from 20 yrs of setbacks + developing “foundational technologies” (eg mice w/ human immune systems) increased success rates far beyond industry norms, now w/ 12 approved drugs & many more coming. Acorda Therapeutics

In first test for base editing, Verve’s $VERV one-time treatment lowers cholesterol levels in patients statnews.com/2023/11/12/in-… $BEAM #AHA23

Concern is rising about the amount of ultra-processed foods in American diets, and the effect eating so many of those foods has on our health, Andrea Petersen writes wsj.com/health/wellnes…

More demands on retail pharmacies wsj.com/articles/walgr…

Medical Studies Are Too White. How Science Is Working to Get Better Data. By ⁦Dominique Mosbergen⁩ wsj.com/health/healthc…

Remarkable to see that our discoveries over 15 years ago would enable such tremendous advances for sickle cell disease and thalassemia!!! Incredible to think that the final sentence of our 2008 paper would be prophetic (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…)... statnews.com/2023/11/16/u-k…

FDA living legend Janet Woodcock on her early 2024 retirement: "Yep, not a secret."

A rule taking effect Jan. 1 was intended to stop one set of abuses by pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, but some pharmacists say it’s enabling these price brokers to simply do new things unfairly. Arthur Allen reports: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/p…

On Nov 17, 1970, D.C. Engelbart receives patent for Computer mouse.

President Biden plans to appoint Rathmell as the next director of the National Cancer Institute. She is a kidney cancer expert who currently leads the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.