Heartbreaking. And unnecessary.
A reminder that measels causes subacute sclerosing panencephalitis that presents years after the initial infection and is fatal.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
#SGIM26 Spotlight: Dr. Molly B. Conroy, Distinguished Professor of Women and Medicine.
A leader in women’s health, prevention, and cardiovascular risk, her work advances research, mentorship, and care across the lifespan.
🔗 buff.ly/JyYBzy6
#SGIM26 #WomensHealth #GeneralInternalMedicine
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...and was reminded of the 2023 SPORT Trial in which people were randomly assigned to rosuvastatin (5 mg), placebo, or one of 6 supplements.
Fish oil, cinnamon, garlic, tumeric, plant sterols, and red yeast rice were not different from placebo.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Under the 2026 ACC/AHA/Many others Guideline on the Management of Dyslipidemia, I'm going to start taking a statin myself.
Wanted to call out this recommendation about supplements.
"Not recommended."
Letting the scientist pipeline die...
Look at the data in this whole thread!
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A great, heartbreaking description of how changes at the NIH are hurting American science.
NIH supported research WAS an American crown jewel.
Despite what leadership is saying, they are letting it wither and featuring future scientific leadership.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Science is a container ship carrying 200,000 tons of observations. The weight comes from years of hard work mining and refining these observations.
The ship can’t turn on a dime, so scientific knowledge often changes slowly.
And I think the public’s expectations don’t always match this truth.
As quoted in this @npr.org article by Kate Cunningham
@feinberg.northwestern.edu @ipham.bsky.social
@nuintmed.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...
A regular reminder that “routine blood work” is not a thing.
www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...
I am a doctor and have better things to be doing, but similar thought: What’s going up up here?!
(Getting off blooski for the rest of the day)
Thinking about Curbsiders episodes, are "pleasantly curmudgeonly" or "pleasantly anxious" part of your hope?
The bus is not the only other option.
The one crazy thing your doctor doesn't want you to know is that they also wish there was a cheap, low-effort, painless way to feel good and be healthy
Good talking to Caroline Tien @self.com for this article.
@feinberg.northwestern.edu @nuintmed.bsky.social @ipham.bsky.social
www.self.com/story/supple...
I am a hypocrite. I’ve been ranting about people’s obsession with vitamin D for years, but when my own levels came back borderline insufficient I started taking it.
Now, thanks to vitamin D, my life is…exactly no different.
www.self.com/story/supple...
So amazing to work with you on this trial Jeff! Lots to be learned from this to inform our future work
Haha. Are some of us who are presenting doing unserious work in this space? @jasndoc.bsky.social
Looking forward to the conference!
Thank you to the amazing multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians, and patients who contributed to the NUDG‑ED trial! @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @jefflinder.bsky.social @feinberg.northwestern.edu @cmaj.ca @ipham.bsky.social
Very proud to have been part of this team. Please see full thread from @gemmaaltinger.bsky.social!!
I wonder how much of this might be the IKEA effect.
Patients who have selected their own antidepressant may be more dedicated to it and believe in it's effectiveness (and tolerate side effects).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_ef...
In an editorial, Gregory Simon of @kaiser-permanente.bsky.social and @uwsom-wwami.bsky.social writes that patients' familiarity with anticipated adverse effects may improve tolerability as well as challenges in the design of the trial.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
An article in @jama.com finds that having patients use a decision tool results in less discontinuation and improved depressive and anxiety symptoms at 24 weeks.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Congratulations to @acpimphysicians.bsky.social for naming LeRoi Hicks, MD, MPH, MACP as the American College of Physicians' next CEO/EVP.
This is great news in the midst of tough time!!
www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is the ONLY part of the Federal government solely dedicated to assessing the quality, effectivness, and safety of Americans' healthcare.
RFK Jr. said in his congressional testimony that he looked forward to working with AHRQ to help make Americans healthier.
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The wholesale hollowing-out of #AHRQ continues...
@societygim.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social
So from what I understand, *ALL* #AHRQ NOFOS are now terminated. None active, none forecasted. The administration effectively “quiet” shutdown the entire Agency…
#AHRQ #HHS #HSR #Healthcare
Good thing #AHRQ doesn’t fund anything important, right?
Let’s see here, they just:
“…produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and… make sure that evidence is understood and used.”
And no other funding agency does this.
Huh.
