Ground Truths
Eric Topol, Roxanne Khamsi, Joanna Stern, Elisa Port, Don Milton, Sebastian Mallaby, Robert Wachter, Yo-El Ju, Kevin J. Tracey, MD, Adrian Woolfson, Gut Checker, Aaron Newman, Helen PearsonFacts, data and analytics about biomedical matters
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Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clocks
This week Tony Wyss-Coray and I published an invited review paper in Nature Medicine entitled “Biological Aging Clocks in Health and Disease.” The concepts and content of the paper may be difficult to understand for people not working in li...
Aaron Newman: A Breakthrough Blood Test for Cancer
The tumor microenvironment (TME), composed of immune cells, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells, has emerged as critical to pathogenesis, prognosis and treatment for cancer (schematic Figure below). There’s no such thing as TMI (too much inf...
Elisa Port: Discuss THE BREAST ADVICE Book
“I may be the expert in cancer, but you are the expert in you.”—Elisa Port, MD
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Agentic AI Comes to Medicine
It was just a matter of time. Agentic autonomous AI has already been applied to life science and many other domains, and today there were 2 notable publications in Nature that move this concept forward for healthcare. One is called MIRA fro...
A New Path to Preventing Cancer
In the journal Cell, a team of >80 researchers from 4 continents reported on the discovery of a 14-protein blood test which paved the way for predicting and preventing lung cancer more than 5 years before it would be diagnosed. Current eff...
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physician-scientist, author, editor
Roxanne Khamsi is an author and science communicator who has been covering discoveries in genetics and medicine for two decades. Currently, she is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Her new book is Beyond Inheritance: (Riverhead, 2026).
I'm the founder and chief everything officer at New Things. Subscribe at thenewthings.com. I'm also the author of I AM NOT A ROBOT: MY YEAR USING AI TO DO (ALMOST) EVERYTHING. Buy it here! joannastern.com.
Chief of breast surgery, Mount Sinai Health System. Author of the forthcoming book, The Breast Advice: All You Need to Know About Health, Screening, and Treatment coming May 19 and available for preorder now. Link below.
Physician, epidemiologist, aerobiologist focused on prevention of airborne infection transmission. @donmilton.bsky.social
Author, "A Giant Leap," Chair, Dept. of Medicine, UCSF
President/CEO of Northwell Health's Feinstein Institutes. Pioneer of bioelectronic medicine, vagus nerve research. Author of "The Great Nerve." Discoveries helped get the first FDA-approved vagus nerve implant.
I'm Trisha Pasricha, a physician-scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the 'Ask a Doctor' columnist for The Washington Post
Associate Professor at Stanford University and CZ Biohub Investigator.
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