Jeffrey Flier
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Formerly Dean of HMS.
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Vera Rubin Gets a Telescope of Her Own
The astronomer missed her Nobel Prize. But she now has a whole new observatory to her name.
The economic policy of Elizabeth Warren
Jerry Taylor has made some positive noises about her on Twitter lately, as had Will Wilkinson in earlier times. I genuinely do not see the appeal here, not even for Democrats. Let’s do a quick survey of some of her core views: 1. She wants to ban...
Jeffrey Flier
The economic policy of Elizabeth Warren - Tyler Cowan is skeptical.
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Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Like Joe Biden, I Once Stuttered, Too. I Dare You to Mock Me.
The retired pilot responds to recent comments from the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on the way the former vice president talks.
Estimation of Current and Future Physiological States in Insular Cortex
Livneh et al. find that slow changes in ongoing population activity patterns in insular
cortex reflect physiological need states independent of behavior and hypothalamic
hunger/thirst neurons. Food/water cues and consumption drive population...
Trump’s Evil Is Contagious
The president has shown us exactly what happens when good people do nothing.
Implications of ideological bias in social psychology on clinical practice
Ideological bias is a worsening but often neglected concern for social and psychological sciences, affecting a range of professional activities and relationships, from self‐reported willingness to di...
Obesity-linked PPARγ S273 phosphorylation promotes insulin resistance through Growth Differentiation Factor 3
Overnutrition and obesity promote adipose tissue dysfunction, often leading to systemic insulin resistance. The thiazolidinediones (TZDs) are a potent class of insulin-sensitizing drugs and ligands of PPARγ that improve insulin sensitivity, but...
Callosal Failure: One Hundred Years of Viewpoint Diversity Activism - HxA
Callosal disconnection syndrome, more colloquially known as ‘split brain syndrome’ may be a perfect metaphor for the viewpoint diversity movement up to now.
Reflections on Intersectionality
Inspired by the fallout from a recent Twitter thread posted by Sarah Haider, I’d like to offer some passing thoughts on intersectionality. Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw as a way of highlighting bias against black women that did not fit...
Clinical scofflaws?
A Science investigation identifies some of the worst recent offenders of the clinical trials reporting law
FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law
Science investigation of ClinicalTrials.gov reveals that federal promises to enforce trial transparency have fizzled
Costs, Benefits, and Sacred Values — Why Health Care Reform Is So Fraught | NEJM
Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Costs, Benefits, and Sacred Values — Why Health Care Reform Is So Fraught
Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom: Ilya Somin: 9780190054588: Amazon.com: Books
Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom [Ilya Somin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But, it has two major shortcomings: individual...
Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology | Stress and the Brain | ScienceDirect.com
Read the latest articles of Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
An engineered enzyme that targets circulating lactate to alleviate intracellular NADH:NAD+ imbalance
Intracellular redox defects are treated with an extracellular chimeric enzyme.
Race and Medicine: The Harm That Comes From Mistrust
Racial bias still affects many aspects of health care.
Jeffrey Flier
Race and Medicine: The Harm That Comes From Mistrust - Thoughtful analysis by @afrakt of a documented and serious problem that demands our attention, but has no facile, quick solutions.
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Citing Toxic Culture and Administrator Departures, Harvard School of Public Health Faculty Repeatedly Weighed Voting No Confidence in Dean | News | The Harvard Crimson
On Dec. 20, 2018, around 40 faculty filtered into the Dean’s Conference Room at the Harvard School of Public Health for an unusual discussion, without the attendance of Dean Michelle A. Williams. They would soon consider taking a dramatic action in...
Let Authors Choose How to Pay for Peer Review and Publication
Giving authors a choice between submission fees and APCs has numerous benefits
Despair doesn't kill, defending whiteness does
On the morning of Sept 15, 1963, a Sunday, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole
Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair were killed by whiteness. They were young, 14 and
11 year old Black girls, assembled in the basement of a church in Birmingham,...