Urgent: The nation’s blood supply is very low. We urge eligible individuals to donate blood or platelets to ensure an adequate supply is available to meet patients’ needs. Please make an appt today. Find a donation center near you: tinyurl.com/p6px4yys #DonateBlood #Platelets

Call me a purist, but I think if the word "curfew" has the word "voluntary" in front of it, it's not a curfew. It's a recommendation, not an order. #EEE

A teen who has been “coughed on, called names, & physically intimidated” for wearing a mask in public says she’s trying to protect her dad who had #cancer & a high risk little sister. Even if you don’t mask, 🙏 support people who do. #COVID19 #MedTwitter bbc.com/news/articles/…

Almost 10 years after UnitedHealth bought ProHealth Physicians, the Connecticut primary care network is a shell of its former self. statnews.com/2024/08/28/uni…

Where policy and people meet: An AHCJ summit on mental and behavioral health healthjournalism.org/event/2024-fal…

Struggling with plunging demand for its Covid products, Pfizer has a new plan to reach potential customers: Cutting out middleman and selling drugs straight to patients bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Even in major US cities, it's getting hard to find hospitals with maternity wards. Here's why bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @citylab

I’m enjoying my trip to ⁦@Dartmouth for the latest Medicine in the Media conference. The fact that the high temperature in NH will be 25 degrees cooler than in D.C. is also pretty nice.

Now is the time to look at this dog.

Biden-Harris Administration Awards Over $558 Million to Improve Maternal Health, including $440 Million to Support Pregnant and New Moms, Infants, and Children through Voluntary Home Visiting Programs Proven to Improve Maternal and Child Health cdc.gov/media/releases…

Both sides of the debate over whether to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution have filed last-minute legal challenges hoping to influence how, an… Source: AP News search.app/EMhub2J1scXWAX…

Because West Nile is spread by mosquito bites.

Clinicians, if you see a patient wearing a mask - just put yours on too. Don’t ask us if that’s what we want. Don’t ask if we are unwell. Don’t make it so obvious that you don’t understand infection control. You work in a hospital. Pretend you get it, and put it on.

What’s behind the recent surge in mosquito-borne illnesses | my interview with ⁦Geoff Bennett⁩ ⁦PBS News⁩ this evening pbs.org/newshour/show/…

What you need to know about 'sloth fever' after 21 cases confirmed among US travelers - my comments interview ⁦ABC News⁩ abcnews.go.com/Health/sloth-f…

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) Healio About a year ago, my physician Baylor Scott & White Dallas-Fort Worth put me on a statin in-part for protection from a cardiovascular event as a result of my long Covid. The increase in heart attack/strokes of middle-aged men post-Covid infection is statistically alarming! Talk to your physician folks!

THE ROAD TO WISDOM is a remarkably thoughtful and inspirational book out this week by Francis Collins. Our conversation about it and other related, important matters in the new Ground Truths podcast. (Link in profile d/t X-suppression)