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Today's Top Beats

🏥 Immigration Crackdown Hurts Healthcare
🧠 Brain Game Reduces Pain
📝 The Tomorrow Problem List

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Immigration Crackdown Hurts Healthcare

The Trump Administration’s move to end protections for over half a million legal immigrants threatens to cripple the US healthcare system, especially long-term elder care, where immigrants make up a large share of the workforce. Deportations could worsen chronic staff shortages, increase costs, and reduce care quality, while deterring legal immigrants from seeking medical treatment. These policies may escalate disease outbreaks and other public health risks and undermine trust in health systems—effects that could outlast the policies themselves and harm both immigrant and citizen communities.

Abortion Pill Founder Passes Away

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, a French biochemist and physician known as the “father of the abortion pill,” died at 98 in Paris. A pioneer in hormone research, he studied aging, steroid hormones, and progesterone’s role in disease, but he’s best known for developing mifepristone in the 1980s. Despite political and religious backlash, he advocated fiercely for the right to abortion. Baulieu received many honors during his lifetime, including France’s Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Brain Game Reduces Nerve Pain

PainWaive, a non-invasive, in-home neurofeedback game using EEG technology, can help patients with chronic nerve pain reduce symptoms by retraining abnormal brainwaves, a tiny clinical trial found. Developed by psychologists at the University of New South Wales, the system showed promising results, with three out of the study’s four participants reporting lasting relief from corneal neuropathic pain comparable with opioids. More trials are needed to generalize the findings and rule out placebo effects—the researchers are now recruiting participants for their Spinal Pain Trial and StoPain Trial. 

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TODAY'S TOP VITAL

18

The minimum number of citations in the MAHA report that have been edited or completely swapped out following a bombshell investigation. Learn what fresh errors the update added.

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Still Mentally at Work? Here Is Your Exit Strategy

You clocked out hours ago… but your brain? Still charting. Still replaying that awkward thing you said in the hallway. Still wondering if you forgot to sign something. Are anxious, ruminating thoughts your autopilot? Same.

Here’s your fix: The Tomorrow Problem List. Before bed (or before you take off your badge), jot down everything your brain’s clinging to that isn’t yours to solve right now. Not goals. Not a to-do list. Just the chaos you can’t control tonight.

Thoughts like:

📝 “Did I chart that thing?”
📝 “Was I too blunt during report?”

📝 “Wait…did I scan the right patient?”
📝 “I still haven’t replied to that group text.”

Write it. Then say it—out loud: “That’s a tomorrow problem.”

Your nervous system will thank you. Your future self can handle it. Tonight? You rest. 

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