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Adults who could successfully stand on one leg for 10 seconds had an 46% lower risk of dying from any cause compared with those who couldn’t complete the test.

I find this fascinating because it shows how much information can be captured by a very simple measure of physical function.

It’s another reminder that balance is probably a meaningful marker of overall health and resilience, especially as we get older.

This analysis highlights just how dependent U.S. internal medicine is on physicians born outside the country.

Nearly **half of the U.S. internal medicine workforce is non–U.S.-born**.

Some numbers that stood out:

* Non–U.S.-born IMGs make up **36.1%** of U.S. internists.
* **India alone contributes 10.8% of the entire internal medicine workforce**, the largest share from any foreign country.
* Non–U.S.-born IMGs constitute **more than half of geriatricians, nephrologists, and sleep medicine physicians**.
* In 2024, non–U.S.-born physicians cared for **22.5 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries**.
* Their patients were disproportionately **low-income, disabled, Black, Latino, and Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible**.
* They were also more likely to care for people living in **high-poverty, medically underserved, and physician-shortage areas**.

So this isn't simply a story about immigrant doctors filling vacancies.

**They are a fundamental part of the U.S. healthcare infrastructure—particularly for patients and communities that already struggle to access care.**

And India's contribution is remarkable: roughly **1 in every 9 U.S. internal medicine physicians is a non–U.S.-born IMG from India**.

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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/11/21/the-horrors-of-hepatitis-research-dangerous-medicine-sydney-halpern/

Of all the infamous research scandals that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, however, none is more contested than the one over the Willowbrook hepatitis study. Between 1956 and 1972 a team of researchers from New York University led (beginning in 1958) by Saul Krugman deliberately infected institutionalized, mentally disabled children at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island with the hepatitis virus.