Story is really important given pharma push to loosen U.S. Phase I trial regulations so U.S. can be more "competitive" with China.

@elizabethcooney.bsky.social · 4h ago

Exclusive from Jason Mast and Brian Yang at @statnews.com who write "the disclosure raises concerns about the quality and transparency of China’s more lightly regulated pathway for drug trials." www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/c...

1/ **New Op-ed** My patients often tell me they feel #stuck and that it makes them sick. In the last few years we @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social have defined and measured #stuckness and its impact on #health. We have come to see stuckness as a unifying explanation for our country's health crisis.

Terrific @inquirer.com op-ed on "stuckness" by @pennmehp.bsky.social's @atheendar.bsky.social. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Americans feel stuck — and it’s making us sick | Opinion

We’ve reached our 250th anniversary as a stuck country. It’s more than just poverty, loneliness, or a lack of opportunity — and it is one of the biggest threats to our public health.

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Really excited to announce that Michael Harhay, Scott Halpern, and I are hiring a post-doc. apply.interfolio.com/190196 If you do methodologically rigorous empirical work in the economics of hospital-based healthcare, please apply. A dream team with access to amazing data and expertise.

Congrats to Dr. Amol Navathe on becoming the new chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the independent congressional agency that advises lawmakers on Medicare payment policy. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-he...

Penn health economist on shaping Medicare’s future | Penn Today

Amol Navathe, professor of medical ethics and health policy at Penn Medicine and healthcare management at Wharton, is the new chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the independent congres...

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This is a superb short paper--both about environmental ethics specifically and about the value of and approaches to ethics education for scientists more generally. Highly recommend.

Tomas García Azcarate@tgazcarate.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why environmental scientists need ethics training more than ever before - Kristy M. Ferraro, Ann C. Thresher doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Thanks for writing this paper, @davidpowell.bsky.social and team.

Good reminder of how hard it is to access health insurance for people who are disabled by their conditions but in the waiting period for coverage for SSDI/Medicare. The mortality during the wait period for people with cancer (neoplasms) is nearly 40%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10....

So thrilled to see @hollylynchez.bsky.social receive this deserved & fitting recognition from @greenwallfdn.bsky.social!

PennLDI@pennldi.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎉 Congratulations to LDI Fellow @hollylynchez.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 Bernard Lo Award in Bioethics from the @greenwallfdn.bsky.social! The award recognizes significant achievement in bioethics research, and in 2026 honors work that bridges divides through bioethics. bit.ly/4vvTz9A

Whatever your views on assisted dying for mature individuals who can consent, its extension to children is very troubling. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w...

The Netherlands Records Its First Assisted Death of a Child Between 1 and 12

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Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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It’s here, it’s finally hereeeee!!!! This paper is in the AER because of two people: my co-author @atheendar.bsky.social, and our copy-editor @sameyler.bsky.social.

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · last mo.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Rationing by Race" by Manasvini Singh and Atheendar Venkataramani.

Not a lawyer but this analysis of the proposed OMB rule on federal grantmaking seems worth a read. www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspecti...

A New Rulebook for Federal Grantmaking: An Analysis of OMB’s Proposed “Uniform Grants Regulation” | Major Questions: An Administrative Law and Regulatory Blog | Blogs | Arnold & Porter

Arnold & Porter

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Just say no to gift authorship.

Atheendar Venkataramani@atheendar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm reaching that stage of my #academic #medicine career where papers somehow "just materialize." I'm trying to run away from it as fast as possible!!

"Big food is just like big tobacco, and we have to use very similar types of regulations and policies to rein them in." #FoodPolicy expert and LDI Fellow Christina Roberto of @pennmedicine.bsky.social talks about translating evidence into real-world impact in our "Good Science" video series.

Congratulations to Lindsey George (@chopresearch.bsky.social) & @aschwartz.bsky.social (@pennmehp.bsky.social/ @penndgim.bsky.social) on being named to the @nam.edu 2026 class of Emerging Leaders in Health & Medicine Scholars! tinyurl.com/2wpf82v2

OHRP's mission is to ensure the safety of people who donate their time, data, and bodies to biomedical research. The ethics watchdog always struggled for funding, but did what it could with its small dedicated team. Under Trump, it's become a shell. My latest: www.statnews.com/2026/06/05/h...

Tiny HHS office tasked with protecting research participants’ safety is running on fumes

OHRP has experienced an unprecedented exodus of ethics expertise, raising concerns about its ability to effectively protect volunteers.

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NEW: LDI Fellow Dominic Sisti weighed in on the Trump administration's executive order on research into psychedelics in @sciam.bsky.social. “It’s inevitable, because once the drug gets approved, then you start moving down that age timeline and testing kids." Read the full article here. ⤵️

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

Congratulations to @rachelwerner.bsky.social (@pennldi.bsky.social), Eric Roberts (@penndgim.bsky.social) & @jnwadiuko.bsky.social (Hospital Med), recipients of top 2026 @societygim.bsky.social Awards in recognition of their health services research! tinyurl.com/rbnxjmk8

🎉Congratulations to LDI Fellow Amol Navathe of @pennmedicine.bsky.social and The Wharton School! He has been appointed Chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Read more here: https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/penn-ldis-amol-navathe-named-chair-of-medpac/

Penn LDI’s Amol Navathe Named Chair of MedPAC

Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, an LDI Senior Fellow and Professor at both the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School, has been appointed Chair of the Medicare Payment…

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Superb choice!

Aaron Schwartz@aschwartz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very excited that my amazing colleague and collaborator Amol Navathe will be the next chair of MedPAC

Eloquently said. Please read. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

Opinion | My Son Never Turned 7. Because of Choices in Washington, Others Won’t Either.

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🎉Congratulations to LDI Fellow Eric Roberts of @pennmedicine.bsky.social!

AcademyHealth@academyhealth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AcademyHealth is excited to announce the recipients of the #ARM26 Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to health services research and health policy. Awardees will be honored throughout the 2026 Annual Research Meeting, May 30-June 2, in Seattle. Learn more: buff.ly/WLs5yQ3

Damn AI for forcing me to question everything I now see. Because if this is real, it is extraordinary, and how is this alien being not better known?

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Witness the mesmerizing sea angel (*Clione* sp.), a real-life creature gliding beneath the ice of the White Sea. Captured by Alexander Semenov, this beauty is no illusion.

Now up at Health Affairs Forefront, @michaelannica.bsky.social and I analyze CMS's proposed rule regarding prior authorization for prescription drugs, contextualizing it as an extension of the 2024 prior auth rule and considering its broader implications. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Out now in @nejm.org, @lucamaini.bsky.social, @michaelannica.bsky.social, Pragya Kakani, and I analyze the opportunities and challenges associated with GENEROUS, the Trump Admin's most-favored-nation drug pricing model in Medicaid. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Medicaid’s GENEROUS Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Model — Promise and Limitations | NEJM

A new pilot Medicaid program — GENEROUS — combines centralized pharmaceutical-coverage negotiations with most-favored-nation pricing in an effort to lower drug costs, but it has some limitations.

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Utah moved to let AI refill prescriptions autonomously—until regulators stepped in. In @statnews.com, LDI Fellow @alonbergman.bsky.social urges a federal regulatory framework for autonomous clinical AI. https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/11/ai-doctors-licenses-utah-doctronic-pilot/

AI doctors should be licensed. Here’s a framework to do that

A state-by-state approach to clinical AI won’t work. Here’s a framework that can.

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Looking for a faculty job in an awesome department? Might I suggest Vanderbilt Health Policy? We are searching for a tenure track faculty member, all ranks considered! Please apply - it is an outstanding department and Nashville is a great place to work and live! apply.interfolio.com/185527

Registration is OPEN for the 7th ELSI Congress! Join a global community shaping the impact of genomics on society. It's a hybrid event, so we encourage you to join us online if traveling isn’t possible. ⏳ Early bird ends May 25 🔗 www.elsicon2026.org #ELSI #Bioethics #Genomics #SciComm

This is an amazing story & scientific accomplishment led by my colleagues at CHOP & Penn, with many others. But most important of the decade? My votes: --COVID19 pandemic --mRNA vaccines --last year's cuts to Medicaid funding Nominate yours. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...