Nora Verlaine
@noraverlaine.bsky.social
MD, PhD, Assistant Prof at UMich | Alum of Penn Med, Wharton, Brigham & Women’s Hospital | Primary care physician and health policy researcher | Mom | Thoughts are my own. #BLM
I feel like I should use this clip in the research talk I’m giving on Tuesday titled, “Medical Debt and the Healthcare Affordability Crisis”
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d agoThe crowd erupts in chants of "Shame on you!" as Roger Marshall tries to explain why he sued 700 of his patients, leading to 81 arrests:
What's unique about financial toxicity in pediatric cancer settings? - Effect on siblings, costs of both food + babysitting for other kids & lost wages - Long-term financial effects for young families at a fragile time - Often using crowdfunding, eg GoFundMe, to help ascopubs.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Dolly Parton's scientific, public health, and educational philanthropy was so significant that @nature.com is running a piece on the impact she had.
Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Accompanied my 72yo mother and 94yo grandmother to their senior exercise class; got my heart rate up to 140
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
if a new notebook doesn’t fix your life… it’s safe to assume it simply wasn’t the right one and you must buy another one A BETTER NOTEBOOK
There’s nothing like filing an incredibly well-justified appeal to an insurance denial to fill me with righteousness
Coworker: Man, today feels like Friday. That’s not a good thing. Me: Seriously! And it’s only Wednesday. Coworker: It’s Tuesday.
Coworker: Man, today feels like Friday. That’s not a good thing. Me: Seriously! And it’s only Wednesday. Coworker: It’s Tuesday.
In this @michigandaily.bsky.social article, @noraverlaine.bsky.social and I discuss recent findings from our IHPI team’s 10-year evaluation of Michigan’s #Medicaid expansion, showing its long-term health and financial benefits for enrollees: www.michigandaily.com/news/researc...
UMich studies find long-term benefits from Medicaid expansion
Studies from the University of Michigan revealed significant long-term health and financial benefits of Michigan's 2014 Medicaid expansion.
michigandaily.com
This week, NIH announced that K career development awards will no longer support independent clinical trials. These are the awards that train clinicians to lead their own trials. Eliminating the on-ramp doesn't strengthen the pipeline, it shrinks it.
Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · last mo.Getting rid of clinical trial K awards will reduce the number of clinician scientists, a critical part of our research workforce. This will especially impact the group of folks doing implementation science (where we figure out how to get evidence into practice). www.science.org/content/arti...
Staring at DiD event study results that are so perfect I want to cry with happiness
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
104 AHRQ grants canceled. $111.1M already invested. $131.3M in committed funding now lost. 28 states affected. Research Interrupted tracks every verified cancellation and its impact on the nation's health research enterprise. buff.ly/e8POgXK
Here are some extremely tiny mushrooms and some extremely perfect dahlias for you on this beautiful midwestern summer day
Here are some extremely tiny mushrooms and some extremely perfect dahlias for you on this beautiful midwestern summer day
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
We got a Tin Can, which is a VOIP landline for pre-approved numbers, and teaching my kids how to use an actual phone is hilarious “You need to dial the number faster than that” “No, hold the phone up to your ear” “When someone picks up the phone you need to say hello so they know you’re there”
A year ago I did not know what Trees of Heaven were and now I hate them with my entire soul
Health Care Agency Discontinues Dozens of Active Research Awards www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/s... “Nothing like this has ever happened before,” said Dr. @noraverlaine.bsky.social Becker, a physician-scientist at the University of Michigan who was three years into an award”
Health Care Agency Discontinues Dozens of Active Research Awards
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality slowed the awarding of new grants last year. Now it is stopping existing ones.
nytimes.com
The truth is that we can make sure maps don't matter for purposes of picking our representatives. A new report by my colleagues and me explains (and shows) how proportional representation can functionally eliminate gerrymandering: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-to-end...
How to end the redistricting wars for good
As mid-cycle redistricting escalates, one reform would keep the maps from mattering
ifyoucankeepit.org
