Health services researcher at Vanderbilt Health Policy. Avid coffee drinker, investigator of drug policies & prices. RT not an endorsement. Opinions are mine.
Stacie Dusetzina
New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025.
Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car.
That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human.
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Medical journals should do this, too. Fake citations = 1 year ban on submission for lead and corresponding authors.
It's inexcusable, and it's remarkable there's not more pushback. Y'know what ETFs like SPY & VOO do when they add a stock? They rebalance by selling all the other stocks in proportion. They are literally changing the rules to take value from shareholders of every S&P 500 company to give it to Musk.
White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants
Dr Wing-Lok Chan #ASCO26 @ascocancer.bsky.social showed a Proactive app-facilitated #pallonc (with digital symptom reported and nursing support) improved QOL and self efficacy. It also reduced hospitalizations.
🤲Caregivers were major users.
This is live in @jamanetworkopen.com today
At least 3.5 million people lost SNAP aid amid 'big beautiful bill' cuts, analysis finds
www.cnbc.com/2026/05/30/s...
Stacie Dusetzina
Max Kennerly
Charles Ornstein
FDA today is issuing industry-friendly guidance on gene and cell therapies www.axios.com/2026/06/02/f...
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Even as Americans confront higher costs, millions of people have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food benefits.
Presenting at #ASCO26 now!
Our new study: Bribes from the drug industry can lead oncologists to use WORSE treatments (not just better ones)
@ascocancer.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social @dusetzinas.bsky.social @commonwealthfund.org @nihcm.bsky.social @arnoldventures.bsky.social
David Zipper
Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO
the framing about 401ks is a little weird but the actual story is more interesting:
Musk is somehow getting the not-yet IPO’ed SpaceX stock forced into the indexes so that if you hold an index fund, you hold SpaceX, which would be fine if SpaceX was qualified for inclusion, but it does not.
DiveDoc
Adriel Bettelheim
Brittany Trang
Aaron Mitchell
Joshua Erlich
Sad events here at #ADA26 - ADA has chosen the side of this administration - pretending it's unsafe to an invited federal speaker to hand out an editorial - over supporting its own leadership who've dedicated countless volunteer hours to the org's right to protest.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
Financial experts were alarmed over what some have described as a financial “coup” being carried out by Elon Musk, one that could see tens of millions of Americans unknowingly prop up his unprofitable company SpaceX through their retirement accounts.
Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD
This randomized clinical trial evaluates whether adding an application-facilitated symptom-monitoring intervention to usual palliative care can better maintain health-related quality of life (HRQOL), ...
Financial experts sounded the alarm Monday over what some have described as a financial “coup” being carried out by Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and fierce ally to President Donald Trump, one that could see tens of millions of Americans unknowingly prop up his unprofitable company SpaceX through their ret...
....my sense is many (most?) clinicians are not actually reviewing their notes for accuracy in the way one needs to in order to safeguard against LLM hallucination. So now patients have to audit each clinical note....
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The guidance may signal the agency's new direction.
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