Kamran Mahmood

Good news here👇👇👇

Exiting expertise The members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) fired this week have published, on average, nearly five times more papers mentioning vaccines or vaccination in the title or abstract than their newly appointed replacements, half of whom have not published on the topic at all.

I think this really says it all:

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More than 98% of families in this country choose to vaccinate their young children. But now, vaccine policy is being shaped by the small, extreme minority that doesn’t. This decision doesn’t reflect, protect or support families.

But Haliburton is overrated

I remember safari park growing up in Karachi!

It was chest discomfort. Nothing significant, thankfully!

Only one so far, but fly very infrequently.

Announcement for presidential run at Zion’s Landing!

#idboardreview 40 yo male with unstable housing from NY admitted with fever, vesicular rash as shown, chills, headache, myalgias. Most likely diagnosis? #meded #idmedEd #idsky

If you are a healthcare provider and EVER draw labs to evaluate for iron deficiency you should know

-ferritin is best unless ongoing inflammation
-serum iron is USELESS
-a single digit ferritin result is NEVER NORMAL even if your lab says it is

#MedSky

Anyone who attended this year's #CROI2025 will tell you it was a very strange experience given the current political climate. Still, plenty of interesting studies -- here's a Really Rapid Review of selected highlights. #IDSky #HIVSky blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

This is scary stuff.

Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

defying court orders www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know. A court order that would have delayed the deportation of Dr. Rasha Alawieh was issued while her plane was on the tarmac, but it took off anyway.

The president and physician-in-chief of Brown Medicine is Louis Rice MD.

If one of my partners/employees was detained by the feds in this manner I would be losing my shit. So far: 🦗🦗🦗

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As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

Honestly this is the end of the great American experiment

Once the first amendment falls the rest are not far behind

Holy crap

Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots:  The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...

If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.

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Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Great article and nice to see Seema Lakdawala, an influenza virologist and co-director of the Center for Transmission of Airborne Pathogens at Emory School of Medicine quoted.

Great infographic. Pass it on.

It would be devastating for our disabled patients who have trouble with transportation.

Reaffirming the JAMA Network Commitment to the Health of Patients and the Public In the first month of the new administration responsible for leading the US, the executive branch has issued a flurry of orders, including ones associated with the dismissal or resignation of tens of ...

Reaffirming the JAMA Network Commitment to the Health of Patients and the Public

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Things pediatricians are scared of:
Grapes
Hot dogs
Lawn mowers
Unmounted TVs
Babies on laps in cars
Riders without helmets
Ungated pools
Crib bumpers
Trampolines
Hot tubs
Guns

Things pediatricians are not scared of:
Any/all the vaccines

🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day

I hope Harrison Butker cries himself to sleep tonight. Thoughts and prayers.

Birds!!

Philadelphia needs to win for America

The Philadelphia Eagles have the Mandate of Heaven

SRHD Reports Pertussis Death in Spokane County The Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) announces the first confirmed death from pertussis (whooping cough) in Washington since 2011.

We must remember is that childhood deaths and disability have a disproportionate effect on years of healthy life lost. It's why childhood immunizations against infectious threats are so important, and why they are one of the greatest scientific advances in history.
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Analysis | The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending Eleven out of 12 claims about the agency’s work are misleading, wrong or lack context.

Musk is rumored to spend $40M on Super Bowl ads with his wildly distorted claims attacking USAID. Don’t believe them.

The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM

And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13