Michael Abrams

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Photographer for Stars and Stripes. Have photographed in Europe, Africa, Afghanistan and the Middle East for S&S. Following, RTs and links ≠ endorsement.

Articles

Trees company: Mainz’s Zum Goldstein features many an old chestnut plus flavorful fare

2 weeks ago | stripes.com | Michael Abrams

Diners enjoy the shade of the more than 170-year-old chestnut trees at Zum Goldstein in Mainz, Germany. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes) Even in Germany, it’s uncommon to dine in a place once patronized by revolutionaries, or to sip and sup under 170-year-old chestnut trees in the middle of a bustling city. At Zum Goldstein in the center of Mainz, you can.
Opinion: Evolving Market Pressures Force Biopharma Companies to Cut Assets Early

1 month ago | biospace.com | Michael Abrams

The business of developing new pharmaceutical products and bringing them to market has never been more challenging—and there’s no relief in sight. With inflation driving the cost of development up, and payers across the globe demanding more compelling evidence of effectiveness at lower cost, pharma manufacturers are feeling the squeeze. As a result, they’ve been forced to become more selective about which assets they continue to move forward.
Michael N. Abrams

1 month ago | biospace.com | Michael Abrams

Michael Abrams is co-founder and managing partner of Numerof & Associates, a leading strategy and implementation consultancy that provides customized strategy and operational solutions to organizations across the healthcare industry.
Get abstract at this Wiesbaden art museum

Mar 27, 2025 | stripes.com | Michael Abrams

A visitor to Museum Reinhard Ernst looks at “Argonaut,” a 1983 work by Friedel Dzubas. The Wiesbaden, Germany museum displays abstract art that its founder, Reinhard Ernst, collected in the past 30 years. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes) Reinhard Ernst first came across the work of American artist Helen Frankenthaler during a visit to a Paris gallery in the late 1980s.
Designing for Emergence: How to Navigate Complex Systems when We Can’t Control Them

Mar 24, 2025 | medium.com | Michael Abrams

Michael Abrams·Follow9 min read·--The Control ParadoxWe live in a world obsessed with control. Strategic plans map out the next five years in detail. Project managers track milestones with precision. Leaders promise specific outcomes. This mechanical view of change seems reasonable: if you want predictable results, design predictable processes. Yet as we explored in our previous article on complex systems theory, the most profound social transformations rarely follow linear, predictable paths.
Towering legacy of old brewery lives on at modern eatery in Frankfurt

Mar 8, 2025 | stripes.com | Michael Abrams

Handkäse tartar with apple chutney on roasted homemade bread, foreground, and an oven-fresh pretzel with Bavarian obatzda at Henninger am Turm in Frankfurt are good snacks to go with a beer or be ordered as a small appetizer before your main course. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes) Henninger am Turm is a brewhouse in Frankfurt serving Henninger beer on what was once the brewery’s grounds.
Update on COVID-19 Vaccination

Mar 1, 2025 | citizen.org | Michael Abrams

Health Letter, March 2025 By Michael Abrams, M.P.H., Ph.D., Public Citizen's Health Research Group As one of his last actions as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, Robert Califf, M.D., posted an essay entitled “Vaccines for COVID-19: A personal reflection.”[1] Califf, a cardiologist who served as FDA commissioner under Presidents Obama (2016-2017) and Biden (2022-2025),[2] concluded his essay in bold text: The question for the individual is: “If I take the vaccine, will I be...
Amid overdose crisis, Marylanders need health care, not handcuffs

Feb 17, 2025 | baltimoresun.com | Michael Abrams

We have been here before. In the face of heightened public concern about the consequences of drug use, policymakers looking for solutions turn to the criminal law. Like past scares over heroin, "crack" cocaine or "crystal meth," today Marylanders are rightly concerned about the potent opioid drug fentanyl, which is one cause of the past decade's dramatic increase in overdose deaths.
Op-Ed: FTC Adds Fuel to the Fire for PBMs. Will Congress Deliver Real Reform?

Feb 5, 2025 | pharmacytimes.com | Michael Abrams

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) latest report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) is the third salvo in its campaign against the PBM industry.
From Individual to Collective Consciousness: Mapping humanity’s next leap

Jan 19, 2025 | medium.com | Michael Abrams

Michael Abrams·Follow5 min read·--Are we witnessing the emergence of a new form of human consciousness? The World Wide Web has been with us for three decades and in that time it has transformed our global civilization. We now live in a different world than we did only a generation ago with opportunities to connect with others that we could have barely imagined. This transformation is perhaps best exemplified by one of the Internet’s most remarkable achievements.