— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters
October 18, 2026 • 2 min read
"Tech is not good or bad, but neither is it neutral." -- Mishal Khan, PhD, of the UC Berkeley Labor Center in California, on artificial intelligenceopens in a new tab or window (AI) in healthcare.
"If someone wants to get mFlusiva, they're going to have to use that website or call around." -- Amesh Adalja, MD, of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, commenting on the new mRNA flu shotopens in a new tab or window.
"That's just not how plastic surgery should ever be ... it's demoralizing." -- Kelly Killeen, MD, of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in Beverly Hills, California, discussing the early 2000s extreme makeover show,opens in a new tab or window "The Swan."
"These findings are reassuring ... but benzodiazepines are not risk-free." -- Krista Huybrechts, MS, PhD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, on a study about early-pregnancy benzodiazepine useopens in a new tab or window and congenital malformations.
"The goal isn't to discard PVR [pulmonary vascular resistance], it's to stop reading it in isolation." -- Ahmed Zayed, MBBCh, of Staten Island University Hospital, Northwell Health, New York City, discussing a study of PVR and outcomes after heart transplantationopens in a new tab or window.
"The burden of proof remains to be shown." -- Vijay Sankaran, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, on data about cancer risk in patients with sickle cell diseaseopens in a new tab or window.
"Advanced HIV disease is mostly a problem of disengagement, not late diagnosis." -- Fiona Cresswell, MBChB, PhD, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit in Entebbe, discussing research about long-acting therapyopens in a new tab or window for people with HIV.
"Two adolescents with a similar BMI [body mass index] can have very different health profiles." -- Ligang Liu, PharmD, MPH, of Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, on screening for pediatric obesityopens in a new tab or window.