Eric Topol

The pro-peptide stacked FDA advisory committee voted to lift the ban for BPC-157, as expected. This ban lifting is baseless and will give the public a sense of legitimacy for a peptide with no clinical trial data to support safety or efficacy.
Pathetic.

"Perhaps the worst blow to food safety science was the administration’s elimination of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a group of experts whose recommendations have informed many major food safety programs."
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A comprehensive assessment of the safety of mRNA vaccines
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Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan.
The US has the largest morbidity gap.
Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap.
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Long Covid persistent eye symptoms can be debilitating and appear to be related to chronic T-cell mediated neuroinflammation. open-access
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

you didn't need AI to predict this.....
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has sent mixed messages on vaccinations against measles as cases have continued to climb.

The serious looming further threat to US science
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An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like

Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda.

RFK Jr refusing to meet with US Preventive Task Force for the 4th time
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

Key Health Care Panel Is Again Blocked From Meeting

Trust in science in the United States
@nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To get better protection against respiratory infections and transmission we need to achieve nasal immunity. A new @cp-immunity.bsky.social review www.cell.com/immunity/abs...

Nasal immunity in respiratory viral infection, transmission, and protection

The nasal mucosa is a key decision point during respiratory viral infection. Here, Kazer et al. review new understanding of how local host cell subsets respond during viral infection and how this know...

For treatment and outcomes for cancer, the tumor microenvironment is pivotal, but we've never had a non-invasive way to assess it. Until now, a blood test breakthrough!

With sequencing >10 million cells + AI, discovery & validation of a blood test that informs response to therapy and prognosis.

It's medicine's clock moment.
We don't age linearly or synchronously (our organs and cells).
That leads to an inflection point for promoting health and preventing diseases.
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Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clocks

Proteins Tell How Fast Our Organs and Cells Are Ticking

GLP-1 drugs helped people with diabetes to prevent pulmonary fibrosis, #LongCovid
Work in patients and the mouse model. Open-access
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Prevention and early detection of breast cancer. A very informative conversation with Dr. Elisa Port

For example, Mt Sinai provides AI mammography for all patents getting screened, without charge

We covered a lot of ground

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Elisa Port: Discuss THE BREAST ADVICE Book

A recording from Eric Topol's live video with annotations below

On the future of health, towards primary prevention
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The Future of Health—From Head to Toe

Early detection for all sorts of ailments will allow doctors to treat conditions before a lot of damage is done.

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Aaron Newman: A Breakthrough Blood Test for Cancer

Prof Aaron Newman and I discuss a blood test to assess the tumor microenvironment

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Coverage at NY Times front page, gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/h...
and my input to that piece

The aortic dissection that led to Senator Graham's sudden death. Could it have been prevented? What is being done to reduce the toll of aortic dissection with so many people having a dilated proximal aorta and so few progressing to a catastrophic event?
www.statnews.com/2026/07/15/l...

Graham’s death from aortic dissection raises questions about preventing the rare disorder

When the body’s most important blood vessel tears from the inside, it’s a medical emergency that can be years in the making.

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"“Our findings suggest that future gains in population health will come not only from helping people live longer, but from helping them live healthier."