Atul Grover
@atulgrovermd.bsky.social
Stanford Visiting Scholar Founder, AcademicHealth.com Clin Prof of Medicine @GWSMHS & Assoc @JohnsHopkinsSPH Former AAMC Executive Walker of #Jasmine
without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work “I know my job is to put out fires. But why do I always work with arsonists?”
Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 6mo agowithout naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work "with something like this, im not great at telling you what is causing your symptoms, but im really good at telling you whats *not* causing your symptoms"
As the deal on ACA slips away even as @kff.org notes that health care costs are the public's largest economic concern we take a look at practical ways to move the nation's health policy forward. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Failing to Account for Real-World Complexities in Health Policy
This JAMA Forum discusses the complexities of health care policy in the US, unique aspects of health care costs, and the challenges associated with achieving affordable health care for everyone.
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merry xmas to MrsAware all I want for christmas is you by Mariah Carey 1/2 #DocsWhoRock @erekmajka.bsky.social @brianchiong.bsky.social @atulgrovermd.bsky.social @kbrewesq.bsky.social @imswimming.bsky.social @patrickhwumd.bsky.social @sincerelydreve.bsky.social
"South Dakota doesn’t have the highest gun suicide rate—go to Wyoming for that grim distinction, followed by Montana, Alaska, Idaho, and Oklahoma" dakotafreepress.com/2025/12/08/s...
South Dakotans Shoot Themselves in Record Numbers in 2024
Speaking of leaving, more South Dakotans are checking out permanently by gun: The number of South Dakotans who took their own lives with a firearm rose to 116 last year, and the proportion of South…
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“anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2007, is permanently banned from buying, using or being sold cigarettes or any other tobacco products in the country” www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/news/maldive...
Maldives Becomes First Nation to Ban Smoking for an Entire Generation
The Maldives has become the first country in the world to ban tobacco use for an entire generation, after a new law took effect.
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"Two big pharmaceutical companies were willing to get into an expensive bidding war for one obesity drug company while ignoring all the others on the playing field. This leaves investors … pretty much where they were before the Metsera deal."
Matthew Herper@matthewherper.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhat Pfizer’s Metsera deal means for biotech M&A www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/p... via @statnews.com
the monster mash by bobby "boris" pickett and the crypt-kickers 1/4 @erekmajka.bsky.social @brianchiong.bsky.social @atulgrovermd.bsky.social @alyssaburgart.bsky.social @kbrewesq.bsky.social @imswimming.bsky.social @patrickhwumd.bsky.social @sincerelydreve.bsky.social #DocsWhoRock
States that expanded Medicaid coverage had significantly better cancer survival among patients in rural and high-poverty areas as compared with non-expansion states www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...
Medicaid Expansion Linked to Better Cancer Survival at 5 Years
Residents of rural, high-poverty areas derived greatest benefit versus non-expansion states
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"Once they adjusted for the contribution of genetics, the association between acetaminophen and autism virtually disappeared" www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/r...
Trump’s Tylenol warning cited a Harvard dean’s research. But a judge called his shifting conclusions ‘unreliable’
A Harvard dean whose work was cited as justification for curtailing Tylenol use provided what a judge called 'unreliable' expert testimony against the drug’s maker
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GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy on Trump and RFK Jr’s claims about Tylenol and autism: “Talk to your OB about it. But secondly, I was talking to a woman, she goes, ‘Oh, this is great. Two men telling me not to take the only thing I can take when my back's hurting and I'm pregnant.’”
Not 'news' to anyone in medicine but thought it was worth keeping on the radar and perhaps putting it plainly for the public. time.com/7317385/abor...
America's Doctor Shortage Is Getting Worse. Abortion Bans Are to Blame.
Why America's future doctors are avoiding abortion-ban states.
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The U.S. faces a doctor shortage, partly due to outdated Medicare caps on residency slots, crucial for training physicians. The bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 (S. 2439/H.R. 4731) would help. Len’s story shows what’s at stake. www.aamc.org/news/when-do...
When the doctor shortage is personal
Eight years after surviving a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, the author urges Congress to pass legislation to help fund training for more doctors.
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The study is believed to be the first national-level analysis after the ruling, and its findings raise concerns about the future diversity of the healthcare workforce. @atulgrovermd.bsky.social
Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t... via @statnews.com
Trump administration blocks NIH from awarding any research grants and contracts
The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.
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for those old enough to remember the "cornhusker kickback" (in a bill that reduced the deficit...) Alaska Allotment/Arrangement/Allowance ? Non-CONUS Nest Egg?
"New York has a population about the size of Israel, except compared to them, we are practically a utopia, where people of very different backgrounds live peacefully (if grumpily) side by side"
Philip Bump@pbump.com · last yr.This is … something pollsters very keenly understand and account for.
NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says. Scoop from @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/n...
NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says
The National Institutes of Health is halting further terminations of research grants, an internal email shows
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"3. Insurance companies are already supposed to be doing some of these things." www.healthleadersmedia.com/payer/5-take...
5 Takeaways from Health Insurers' New Pledge to Improve Prior Authorization
Trump administration officials applauded the insurance industry for its willingness to change, but also acknowledged limitations of the agreement.
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BREAKING: federal judge overrules hundreds of NIH grant terminations www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...
Federal judge rules that hundreds of NIH grant terminations were 'void and illegal'
A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”
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JAMA Health Forum @jamahealthforum.bsky.social - the health policy journal of the JAMA Network - is now on BlueSky!! #MedSky #ARM25
Job alert: My colleague Ari Ne'eman is looking for an RA (to be based in the Boston area) to help with some health policy research focused on Medicaid and people with disabilities sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
The "Big Bill" (H.R.1) would raise the uninsured by nearly 60% in the next ten years, wiping out most of the gains since the ACA timothymcbride.substack.com/p/the-big-bi...
The "Big Bill" (H.R.1) would raise the uninsured by nearly 60% in the next ten years, wiping out most of the gains since the ACA
The uninsured in the U.S. dropped by about 40% since the passage of the ACA; projected effects of legislation would raise uninsured 60%, nearly wiping out all the gains since the ACA was implemented
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"Altogether, 16 million people could become uninsured over a decade, the same number who were at risk of losing their insurance when Republicans attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017, CBO said." we've come full circle www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/t... via @statnews.com
10.9 million people would lose health insurance under Trump’s tax cut bill, CBO projects
'Big, beautiful bill' would result in 10.9 million people losing health insurance, primarily Medicaid.
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"The physician shortage is already here. But what we do now determines how dire this issue will become." www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/u... via @statnews.com
America is running out of doctors. Congress must step up
The U.S. can’t afford to lose more doctors. Expanding international students’ access to American medical schools is a good place to start.
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"They're not work requirements, they're paperwork requirements... if you're an Uber driver, an independent contractor, what does that requirement look like?" Good questions on #Medicaid from @adrianna.bsky.social to @cnn.com Pamela Brown
one headlight by the wallflowers #DocsWhoRock 1/2 @erekmajka.bosky.social @brianchiong.bsky.social @atulgrovermd.bsky.social @alyssaburgart.bsky.social @kbrewesq.bsky.social @imswimming.bsky.social @patrickhwumd.bsky.social @sincerelydreve.bsky.social sorry for missed tags
“We believe significant scientific knowledge may be garnered from following the ostriches in a controlled environment,” Mr. Kennedy said in a letter to the head of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...
Canada Wants to Kill 400 Ostriches. Kennedy and Dr. Oz Want to Save Them.
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