Liz Highleyman ✓

@LizHighleyman · San Francisco · joined 21 Mar 2009

Medical journalist. Science editor for @POZmagazine, Hep & CancerHealth. Words for @aidsmap, @Slate, @eBARnews. Research beagle adopter. Same handle on Blue.

16 337Followers

5 808Following

53 436Posts total

35.2KViews on collected posts

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Liz Highleyman ✓@LizHighleyman10 Sep

Wow, someone in the investment world is saying this in Forbes. A drum I’m constantly beating: Medical innovation is important, but advances need to be accessible without devoting an ever-growing share of the economy to pharmaceuticals. https://t.co/3u7rhAHPVS 90 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Liz Highleyman ✓@LizHighleyman9 Sep

I’ve been seeing more cancer drugs pulled lately for failing confirmatory trials, which is how accelerated approval is supposed to work. Interestingly, we didn’t really see this with HIV, which FDA & activists first devised AA for in the 1990s. As better drugs came along, old 237 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Liz Highleyman ✓@LizHighleyman9 Sep

This is how I feel about animal testing. There’s some types of medical research that cannot yet be done with non-animal models. But breeding beagles for old-fashioned toxicology testing is obsolete. There’s a lot of low-hanging fruit before we get to the hardest cases 265 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Liz Highleyman ✓@LizHighleyman9 Sep

The same can be said of semaglutide & tirzepatide. Clinical trials are often designed to determine a maximum effective & tolerated dose for the sickest patients. I’m thriving on 0.7 mg tirz. 410 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Liz Highleyman ✓@LizHighleyman9 Sep

Agreed. The proposed “solution” seems to be putting the current frontier companies, allied with the Trump administration, in control of who can work on AI. 293 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Liz Highleyman ✓@LizHighleyman9 Sep

1/ I was on the @FDAOncology ODAC for sotorasib, a KRAS G12Ci tested in NSCLC. We voted no, almost unanimously. A year later adagrasib + cetuximab got accelerated approval (AA) for colorectal cancer based on KRYSTAL-1. KRYSTAL-10 was a phase 3 RCT testing that combo and just 14.4K views · 69 likes · 13 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Liz Highleyman ✓@LizHighleyman9 Sep

If you are not obese, riddled with metabolic diseases, live a legitimately active lifestyle, and follow a strict clean diet, be cautious of making Reta dosage decisions based on trial data. 19.5K views · 94 likes · 4 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views293this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.79%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.59%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	293	924	0.32×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.79%	3.62%	0.50×
Engagement rate	0.59%	1.52%	0.39×

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

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Likes80.4%168 in total

Reposts8.6%18 in total

Replies11.0%23 in total

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