The surgeon general is out with a new advisory today—this one on the stresses of being a parent. Nice to see my recent story on America’s chief wellness officer mentioned in the Wall St Journal. I have to say, this advisory is much more actionable. wsj.com/tech/surgeon-g…

Ten recommendations to foster healthcare resource stewardship in knowledge translation Opinion by Wittmer et al. Link: bit.ly/3zHjjsg

John Hopkins Pathology is recruiting for our 2026-2027 advanced surgical pathology fellowship. See below for more details.

Challenging the concept of “risk of malignancy” in cytology acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

What is the actual criticism here? Seems to me that if an annual booster campaign can't keep up with multiple COVID waves, that's not the fault of public health agencies. If everyone got boosted in the summer, they'd have little protection by the winter wave.

Wegovy lowered Covid-19 mortality in landmark trial. Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

A star scientist made a stunning claim: Cancers have unique microbial signatures that could one day allow tumors to be diagnosed with a blood test. Then the study unraveled. Nidhi Subbaraman reports for #WSJScience wsj.com/health/healthc… via The Wall Street Journal

"laboratories" of democracy

Most viewed in the last 7 days from JAMA Internal Medicine: Viewpoint discusses challenges posed by religious hospital monopolies for patients who do not share the same faith. ja.ma/3AGMGeR

I just found out my boyfriend is getting married in his video game before we’ve gotten married in real life. 😭

Counting the impact of COVID-19 on cancer deaths. elifesciences.org/digests/93758/…

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People of Washington: Please join Jerusalem and me at Politics and Prose at the Wharf this Tuesday evening for a conversation about Jerusalem's great new book. More info here: politics-prose.com/jerusalem-dems…

Are people really still pulling the whole "disinformation" thing in public health?

As part of a major expansion of health coverage, we’re excited to announce that ✨kvb✨, Nicholas Florko, and Shayla Love will join The Atlantic as staff writers, along with Roxanne Khamsi and Rachel Sugar joining as contributing writers. More info here: theatlantic.com/press-releases…

This is going to be great. x.com/TheAtlanticPR/…

What happened when a high-performing radiology practice (academic center) deployed AI for intracranial hemorrhage detection (aidoc)? Performance regressed toward mediocrity (slightly) and interpretation took (insignificantly) longer. Buyer beware!

Baltimore date night.