This clause from the 14th Amendment to the Constitution seems very relevant.

Over two years, 63% of adults & 29% of children are dispensed medications with recommended gene-based prescribing modifications. Pharmacogenomic-guided prescribing is low hanging fruit for improving medication safety. Genetics in Medicine @smanzi2 Leo Dianbo Liu nature.com/articles/s4143…

2/ @ribbonhealthAPI, Wheel, Truepill, Medallion, Aptible, @eligibleapi, @CerebraeInc...these co's represent core operational infra that used to take hoards of manual labor, regulatory attorneys, & custom code to implement, but are now available via turnkey APIs.

It’s simple. These GOP “leaders” NEED to acknowledge they lost the election. If they don’t, they’re inciting violence by making people believe their democracy was stolen. Until they acknowledge there was NO evidence of mass voter fraud, their followers will continue to plot.

Any Member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives because of their selfish idiocy. I'm calling for every single Member who refuses to wear a mask in the Capitol to be fined and removed from the floor by the Sergeant at Arms.

There’s been a lot of talk lately about big corporations (eg, Amazon, Verizon, Comcast, etc) deciding to stop giving $ to House & Senate Republicans who voted to overturn @joebiden’s election. Guess which giants aren't on that list? America's big for-profit health insurers. (1/8)

Imagine being locked down in a Capitol Hill office with a 75 year old cancer survivor who asks you to don a mask because she fears Covid, and you, a grown adult, refuse.

Very interesting paper on fiber type specific proteome changes in response to 12 weeks of endurance training in humans.

Key investment opportunities to drive healthcare innovation in 2021 medcitynews.com/2021/01/key-in…

We invite you to join us for this free & virtual Feb event organized by MIT Hacking Medicine in partnership w/Google Cloud & supported by Apple Health. Look forward to tech talks from Ken Mandl from DBMI at Harvard Med CHIP Informatics, Oliver Aalami Stanford Biodesign CardinalKit team & many more #mit #harvard

Ret. Gen McChrystal sees parallels between Capitol insurrectionists and and angry Arab youths who joined al-Qaida. "I think we’re much further along in this radicalization process, and facing a much deeper problem as a country, than most Americans realize” yahoo.com/news/attack-on…

What a rollercoaster week in medical AI. Jan 12: the The White House announces a national AI office. Jan 12: the U.S. FDA announces a new AI/ML action plan highlighting regulatory changes. Jan 15: HHS.gov attempts to exempt several classes of medical AI from U.S. FDA review.

Excited to see work with Andrea Continella Jen Goldsack and Yu-Xiang Wang live on MobiHealthNews! Consumer fitness data is increasingly becoming research data (e.g. 10+ recent studies on wearables+#COVID-19!) Should we panic? NO! This is A GOOD THING. But... mobihealthnews.com/news/contribut…

Millions of Americans living through this pandemic without health coverage. Just awful Today, ACA exchanges opened for special enrollment About 9 million people eligible for free/cheap coverage Please share widely, encourage folks to sign up Go to: healthcare.gov

A quick thread for PhD admits thinking about potential advisors: I see a lot of discussion about "hands-on" vs "hands-off" advisors But I think there are at least 3 underlying dimensions here, each of which is worth considering in its own right: 👇 [THREAD] 1/

For our 6th annual Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report, we partnered with Stanford Center for Digital Health to understand how the pandemic impacted use of digital health technologies. Check out the data & learn implications for innovators, enterprises & consumers alike. rockhealth.com/reports/digita…

Please join us for the inaugural quarter of Seminars in Inherited Cardiovascular Disease - hosted by SCICD and featuring inherited CV disease experts from across the globe! Zoom registration in thread. Neal Lakdawala andrew harper Chris Haggerty Kiran Musunuru Adam Helms

A very special day today - community distribution for our usability study SnapDX.org - it’s been long road designing/assembling/testing & sharing this with community. So thankful for amazing team - with the goal to bring low cost tests to communities around the world

I got Biomni to "drop acid"! Molecular docking of LSD CCN(CC)C(=O)[C@H]1CN([C@@H]2CC3=CNC4=CC=CC(=C34)C2=C1)C with 5-HT2A (PDB: 6A93): Affinity:-7.3 kcal/mol Est Ki: 4451.6 nM (less potent than expected) Possibly bad batch, receptor flap dynamics or ...? #CompChem #DrugDiscovery

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15