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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

A stage at the European Respieatory Congress with a big screen behind it showing the first slide of my presentation "How do social inequality, environmental pollution and climate change affect patients with pulmonary hypertension?"

A week ago I took part in a symposium on the global challenge of #PulmonaryHyoertension where Dr @sandeepsahaymd.bsky.social spoke of epidemiology, Dr Kulkarni of diagnosis & treatment in LMIC, Dr @albertaphdoc.bsky.social of research & Nina Kobler of her perspective as a patient. 1/2
#ERSCongress

Pliny’s new gesture to those allergic to cats - she’s on the aid purifier

Markie is slowly becoming human
#caturday

Medical neutrality — the protection of hospitals, staff & patients in war — is enshrined in international law.
In Gaza, it has been ignored 👇🏼

Inhibition of epithelial cell YAP-TEAD/LOX signaling attenuates pulmonary fibrosis in preclinical models - Nature Communications Extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling is a hallmark of fibrosis thought to be driven by mesenchymal cells. Here, the authors discover that YAP-TEAD/LOX axis is activated in distal lung epithelial cells, which contributes to ECM remodeling in pre-clinical models of pulmonary fibrosis.

Really cool! Inhibition of epithelial cell YAP-TEAD/LOX signaling attenuates pulmonary fibrosis in preclinical models. From the team of Darcy Wagner, Oliver Eickelberg & Melanie Königshoff
#ScienceMatters #CurePF
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Grateful to the other authors:
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa (@ferozesidhwa.org)
Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha
Dr. Akiva Leibowitz
we all contributed equally.
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
The paper is dedicated to the amazing medical, surgical and nursing teams of Gaza, in solidarity and camaraderie.

Please, read and share this very important 🧵

Thank you to these corageous colleagues for unflinchingly speaking up

I'm proud and honoured to call @kaminskimed.bsky.social my friend and I hope the medical community takes example from his and his co-authors words! 👇👇👇

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Trump's call to split up the MMR childhood vaccine revives long-settled debate President Trump's suggestion​ that the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice.

“Combination vaccines were developed to reduce missed opportunities, increase coverage and minimize the trauma of multiple injections … Undoing that progress would put children at risk."

*ps, my editorial note: they are also SAFE

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

🙏🏼 this means a lot coming from you #PeopleILookUpTo

Powerful and important piece by an outstanding physician, scientist, and human being @kaminskimed.bsky.social

pdf:

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

Thanks you for the kind words my friend for reminding me to post also here 🙏🏼 Here's a 🧵
bsky.app/profile/kami...

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Grateful to the other authors:
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa (@ferozesidhwa.org)
Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha
Dr. Akiva Leibowitz
we all contributed equally.
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
The paper is dedicated to the amazing medical, surgical and nursing teams of Gaza, in solidarity and camaraderie.

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The most prestigious medical journal in the world, @nejm.org, finally published papers on Gaza’s health catastrophe, describing to the horrors.
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
I'm sad they had to be written.
I'm glad the silence wall is breaking.
#SilenceIsComplicity

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We call U.S. medical institutions to STOP suppressing discussions about Israel's horrific actions in Gaza, the devastation of a society.

The stakes are too high for us to continue our silence.
#SilenceIsComplicity.
Please read and share:
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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We know some fear raising Gaza’s devastation will be misconstrued as “antisemitic.”
But assessing attacks on health, defending medical neutrality are NOT antisemitic.
They are ethical obligations shaped by medicine’s failures during the Holocaust.
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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The testimonies of Medical team members who volunteered in Gaza about the horrors, the famine, the devastation are often dismissed, doubted, or attacked — and very few are ever published. This silence erases both medical workers and their patients. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Palestinian, Israeli, international
scholars ,multiple aid a&human
rights organizations, including
Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) and a U.N. Commission of Inquiry, concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-...

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Medical neutrality — the protection of hospitals, staff & patients in war — is enshrined in international law.
In Gaza, it has been ignored. The health system has been deliberately dismantled.
Yet in the U.S., most medical institutions remain silent www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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In the 2 years since the Oct 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities, Israel:
- Killed >65,000 Palestinians , including 20,000 children
- Bombed Hospitals & decimated cancer, dialysis, primary care in Gaza
- Killed >1500 health workers killed, detained hundreds www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

🙏🏼

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

Pliny having her night cup
#Caturday

Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations Whistleblower complaints by two former top NIH officials offer their inside accounts of the Trump administration’s targeting of vaccine science.

Now Jeanne Marrazzo, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been fired by #RFKJr in retaliation. This administration is corrupt. Matthew Memoli: remember this man's name, MAGA grifter who scored $500M for his research. www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

Yom Kipur pre-fast dinner (Seuda Mafseket):
Apples, other fruit & honey
Pomegranate seeds, beans, artichokes,
Gefilte fish & baccala cakes
Chicken soup (too much dill) with Knedlach
Lamb in sweet wine
braised parsnips & carrots. Not in photos - Challah, honey cake, wine
#DoctorsWhoCook
#ShanaTova

Cat cafe Zen

Dr. Brandon Libby an ED doc: We are bound by an oath to protect life, dignity, health for all people.
The genocide in Gaza is shattering our oath.
I am also among the >1000 Jewish health professionals that have signed a letter declaring #SilenceisComplicity
join us at JewishHealthcare.net!!

New Haven instant classic - not very pink salmon, pine nuts, capers, toasted vegetables and beans and torn left over Pizza from Modern