Opinion | 'We've Actually Got Millions of People to Think About It': What We Heard This Week

— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters

June 14, 2026

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"By the actions of the ADA, we've actually got millions of people to think about it." -- Steven Kahn, MBChB, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, on being kicked out of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting after distributing an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research.

"The field has really exploded." -- Anthony Maresso, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine, on how wastewater surveillance to monitor pathogens has risen in prominence.