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3 days ago | insidemedicine.substack.com | Jeremy Samuel Faust

Today (Tuesday, May 13) at 2 p.m. ET, I’ll be joined in the Doctor’s Lounge by my great friend and colleague, Dr. Craig Spencer over on Substack Live. To join us live, click this link (you can watch on any device, including the Substack app). To add it to your calendar, click here. All Inside Medicine subscribers will also receive an email with the link the moment we go live. (Note: This session will also be posted on Inside Medicine afterwards.)Amplify essential public health voices.

4 days ago | insidemedicine.substack.com | Jeremy Samuel Faust

Project 2025 in the White House has a strategy. The strategy is to overwhelm us with bad news so we can’t possibly keep up. The strategy is to bombard us with so much destruction that we become numb and nothing shocks anyone. The goal is that we’ll lose track of everything, give up, and stop fighting. Yesterday’s impeachable offense barely makes the news today. It’s working at times, though not always.

1 week ago | insidemedicine.substack.com | Jeremy Samuel Faust

Yesterday, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the newly appointed Director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), addressed around 150 of his new colleagues at the White Oak campus in Silver Spring, MD. Inside Medicine was in the room, thanks to scientists who shared footage of Prasad's 20-minute speech, which was followed by a brief Q&A. The question on many minds among FDA rank-and-file in attendance was: Which Vinay Prasad would show up?

1 week ago | insidemedicine.substack.com | Jeremy Samuel Faust

Yesterday, WBUR published a generous profile of Inside Medicine, capturing what I’ve been trying to do here since January 20th—which is to cut through the noise, hold our elected officials accountable, and give voice to those otherwise unable to speak out from within HHS agencies like the CDC, FDA, NIH, IHS, and others. I’m grateful to Elisabeth Harrison for writing this piece. Her questions made me think about my goals and hopes for this very special space that we share.

1 week ago | insidemedicine.substack.com | Jeremy Samuel Faust

Inside Medicine is made possible entirely by reader upgrades. Support this work by upgrading to Premium. (For anyone needing a free upgrade due to financial considerations, just email me and it’s all good—no questions asked!)Ever noticed how time does not seem to elapse consistently? I can think of four times when large stretches of time felt particularly elongated. Two were happy occasions—the first couple of weeks of my daughters’ lives. The other two, conversely, have been remarkably bad periods.