Jeff Linder

So much antifa propaganda!!

Good grief! There's photos of antifa all over the internet!!

Found antifa....

A Northwestern Medicine promotional poster for Oct. 15th, 2025 Medical Grand Rounds with special guest C. Ronald Kahn, MD with their talk entitled "Genes, Environment and Insulin Resistance in the Ever-Expanding Metabolic Syndrome" for our Rollin T. Woodyatt Lectureship

Please join us on Oct. 15th for our next #MedicalGrandRounds ! We will be joined by C. Ronald Kahn, MD from Joslin Diabetes Center for our Rollin T. Woodyatt Lectureship!

Another bike commute into the urban hellscape today…

2) This one, because remember all the smallpox patients I’ve seen? Oh wait. We ERADICATED smallpox in 1977 through worldwide vaccination!

This was great! My two favorite posters were, 1) this one, as I treated myself for a muscle strain, and…

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Multivitamins and Supplements—Benign Prevention or Potentially Harmful Distraction? More than half of adults take dietary supplements, and use of supplements in the US is projected to increase.1,2 In 2021, people in the US spent an estimated almost $50 billion on dietary supplements ...

We wrote about how vitamins and supplements can be a harmful distraction from things proven to keep you healthy.

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A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements

Endorse.

@shwinyo

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Right on my commute!!

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Aggressive immigration enforcement by Homeland Security agents in and around Cook County courthouses undermines that trust and cooperation by instilling fear of arrest and deportation in the victims and witnesses of violent crime. 10. The activities of the Department of Homeland Security in and around the 4th Municipal District courthouse, the Domestic Violence courthouse, and the main Cook County Criminal Courthouse located at 2650 S. California in Chicago has materially harmed the State's Attorney’s office’s efforts to protect the victims of crime and uphold the law through criminal prosecution. Tae For instance, I am familiar with a murder prosecution in which a witness has expressed to my ASAs that she is afraid to come to court and testify for fear that she could be arrested by Homeland Security agents. In this case, the fearful witness is the wife of the murder victim. 12 Their fear of arrest makes it more likely that her husband’s murderers will go free and justice will be denied.

Affidavit from Maywood ASA Jose Villarreal, testifying under oath that the presence of ICE/CPB is harming his office's prosecution of crimes.

To the TSA agents at a fully staffed PIT — was through security in 5 min — this afternoon who are working without pay…

…on behalf of all American taxpayers…

Sorry. And thank you.

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Electronic Health Records and the Increasing Complexity of Medical Practice: “It Never Gets Easier, You Just Go Faster” - Journal of General Internal Medicine Journal of General Internal Medicine -

Not Trading Places, but I worked a Gred LeMond quote into the title of a paper:

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One of the things I really liked about S2 of “Andor” was how few Imperial Stormtroopers there were.

Lucas put them in masks for two reasons, IMHO: 1) it made them terrifying, their inhuman faces frozen in frowns, with no pity, feeling, etc. Echo of his enforcer robots in THX-1138.

FWIW, the person who had the top percentile impact scores is not on social media

Yep. I have one colleague who got an NOA for all 4 years of a requested proposal, but meanwhile...

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Not sure how the now hundreds-of-millions of dollars for which we have NOAs, but have been unpaid since March 26 figure into this accounting.

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Another update: Northwestern University has still not received any funds from NIH since March 26, 2025.

We still have not received written communication stating that the funds are frozen, the reason why, or what can be done to restore it.

The Northwestern Center for Bedside Medicine is proud to host the First Annual Conference in Bedside Medicine in Chicago, Nov 14-15, 2025. Join international experts including Abraham Verghese & Andrew Elder to hone your bedside clinical & teaching skills. northwestern.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...

Longer-Term Outcomes of the ProACT Trial | NEJM The Procalcitonin Antibiotic Consensus Trial (ProACT) showed that a procalcitonin-guided antibiotic prescription guideline did not improve 30-day outcomes among patients with suspected lower respir...

This is good, but needs empirical testing. There are any number of studies showing that providing a test result alone does not change antibiotic prescribing.

Here’s one:

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

Internist asking a virologist.

How many non-self antigens is a human body typically interacting with at any given moment?

How many of those interactions could be considered -- and this is tough to deliniate -- non-trivial?

Can we just watch the movie and skip the extrajudicial killing part?

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Agree. The hearing brought to light his lack of knowledge on the agencies and health issues he is over

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A colleague just heard that two NIH grant proposals -- totally aligned with addressing chronic disease -- one with a 4th percentile and one with a 1st percentile score, will likely not be funded.

See rationale in the image.

This does not seem like "radical transparency."

#NIH #HHS

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

How microdosing GLP-1 drugs became a longevity ‘craze’ Internet companies are helping stoke enthusiasm for “microdosing” weight-loss drugs for wellness, mood and joint pain.

I take Ozempic, a GLP-1 agonist, for weight loss. I lost 80 lbs. It has completely transformed my life and health, both physical & mental. But it is not without cost.

Microdosing without evidence is a bad idea. Here are a few reasons why👇🏻

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