Chair, Arlington Commission on Aging https://teapaw.org/t.co/9M49fPZxO7…
Arlington, VA
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Did an Alternative-Medicine Guru Accidentally Kill Patients? In Switzerland, Thomas Rau offers treatments that many conventional doctors would question: Now he’s accused of lethally negligent care (NYer) newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
Christa Pike Said She Awoke ‘Confused & In Pain’ After Botched Execution: In her first public statement since the failed lethal injection, Pike said she had been “prepared to die” for her role in a brutal killing (WP) washingtonpost.com/national-…
Medicare Advantage vs. Traditional Medicare: What You Need to Know; When you sign up for the retiree health plan, the two options can present a financial puzzle, but cost is just one factor (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/11/08/busin…
Midterm Wave Sets a Course For ‘Medicare for All’ Fight (KFF) kffhealthnews.org/insurance/…
Your Phone Knows You’re At the Doctor, & Data Brokers Are Profiting From It: Privacy and legal experts want more states or Congress to ban advertisers from tracking Americans’ locations via their phones (WP) washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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Trump Administration Moves To Oust Arbitrators As Doctor Payouts Soar: The two companies settled billing disputes between doctors & insurers, keeping patients out of the middle; One let doctors win 96% of the time (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/11/04/healt…
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Infant Bleeding Surged as Parents Rejected Vitamin K Shots, Studies Find: One study found a 347% increase in cases as fewer babies received the shot, which helps blood clot (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/11/05/well/…
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Kennedy To Allow Broad Use Of Unapproved Peptide Injections: In a unilateral declaration by the health secretary, several injections promoted by online influencers will become widely available. The F.D.A. had advised against the move (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/10/28/healt…
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The Ebola Outbreak Is Breaking Records — & Just Marked a Grim Milestone (NPR) npr.org/2026/10/27/g-s1-1501…
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Bird Flu Is Raging On a Mink Farm & It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, But Officials Won’t Act (P) propublica.org/article/bird-…
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CDC Scientists Sought Urgent Alert On Measles In Pregnancy: It wasn’t approved; The report could fill major gaps about a condition doctors have rarely seen for decades (WP) washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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Former White House Health Aide Accuses Trump Advisers Of Catering To Special Interests: In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Calley Means accused top administration aides & strategists of favoring powerful industries (WP) washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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Four Kennedy Appointees To Powerful Health Panel Allowed To Keep Drug Stocks: New members of the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force were given waivers to serve with financial conflicts (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/11/05/well/…
Unfazed by Midterm Rebuke, Miller Is Poised to Push the Limits of Trump’s Power: Trump’s new chief of staff has already demonstrated his intention to forge (NYT) nytimes.com/2026/11/07/us/po…
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After the Apocalypse: As Venezuela struggles to recover from political upheaval and calamitous earthquakes, the U.S. government is exploiting the country for oil & money (tA) theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Hegseth Ramps Up US Troops In Panama As Pentagon Expands War On Drug Cartels (tH) thehill.com/policy/defense/6…
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Turns Out We Blew Up All Those Boats In the Caribbean for Nothing: As if we needed more confirmation that Pete Hegseth and our defense department are both psychotic & ineffectual (E) esquire.com/news-politics/po…
Massie Says He’ll Move To Impeach Hegseth If He’s Not Gone After Midterms (tH) thehill.com/homenews/house/6…
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Hegseth Draws Fire After Using Government Resources For Partisan Video: Watchdog groups said the defense secretary’s self-promotional messaging as he fights to keep his job probably violated federal law (WP) washingtonpost.com/national-…
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