Akshay Sharma

Frontiers | Beyond the traditional oncology patient: the role of palliative care in patients with sickle cell disease receiving stem cell transplantation or gene therapy

We’ve got a new publication on the role of #palliativecare in patients with #sicklecell considering (or undergoing) BMT / gene therapy. It’s open access so anyone in the world can use it when treating patients! www.frontiersin.org/journals/onc...
#curesicklecell #stjudebioethicsprogram

🚨PublicationAlert🚨 How I Treat Sickle Cell Disease with Gene Therapy, published online (authors.elsevier.com/a/1kKhU1UYwn...) and in print in @bloodjournal.bsky.social Very grateful to several mentors, colleagues and friends for their teaching, discussions and inputs.

It’s coming.. the Content committee is working on it.

Wondering hom many followers it will take for @astct.bsky.social team to start posting. Follow and prove them there is engagement on @bsky.app #bmtsm #CARTcells #genetherapy bsky.app/profile/astc...

Infants rely on herd immunity so they don’t *die* of pertussis. Vaccination will protect them when they’re old enough to be vaccinated but the youngest babies need *everyone* around them to be vaccinated. So get those tetanus boosters everyone, b/c pertussis vaccine is included 👏🏼 #BOGO
#herdimmunity

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

Why we are publishing disturbing content from AR-15 mass shootings Executive Editor Sally Buzbee’s letter explains why The Post took the unusual step of publishing graphic content to illuminate the reality of AR-15 shootings.

Special Report: In our latest series examining the role of the AR-15 in American life, The Post published visuals from some of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings.

Learn more about why The Post pursued this line of work by reading a letter from our top editor:

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file...

Nice work, @propublica.bsky.social: a tool to help people access insurance company info on claim denials.
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

When there is actionable, lifesaving genetic information (and it's not being reported). A contextual analysis of the Icelandic NEJM report is the subject of the new Ground Truths
erictopol.substack.com/p/when-there...

UK MHRA authorizes Exagamglogene autotemcel (Casgevy), the first #CRISPR therapy in the world. Now the real work begins to make this therapy truly accessible to patients who need it the most #SickleCellDisease #Equity

www.gov.uk/government/n...

We thank the reviewers for their many constructive comments, which have improved the manuscript significantly.

Over 2 billion people fly per year but what happens when they get sick? NEW ICU OnePager about in-flight medical emergencies.
✈️covers aerospace physiology
🩹medical supplies & equipment
🛬logistics & diversion
🤒what to do for common in flight medical emergencies
- onepagericu.com/in-flight-medi…

Large language models prove helpful in peer-review process In an era plagued by malevolent sources flooding the internet with misrepresentations, distortions, manipulated imagery and flat-out lies, it should come as some comfort that in at least one arena the...

🧪 Stanford researchers found that large language models (LLMs) matched human peer-review points by 31%-39%. For weaker papers, this rose to 44%. Authors found LLM feedback useful in over half of the cases. However, LLMs can't replace humans due to their lack of detailed critiques. #AcademicSky #ml

Grogu presiding as Speaker of the House

Reminder that the Speaker does not actually have to be a Member of the House of Representatives

A pumpkin with a hole burrowed into the side

In other news my partner left it outside and the squirrels carved our pumpkin for us

why are they called intestinal crypts when they have stem cells, not dead cells

should be INTESTINAL CRADLES

This is so sweet. 🥹

Worried about the 23andMe hack? Here’s what you can do. A hacker offered to sell information on 23andme’s millions of users, calling out Jewish people specifically. Here’s how to ask the company to delete your data.

A hacker offered to sell information on 23andme’s millions of users, calling out Jewish people specifically. Here’s how to ask the company to delete your data.

I have some.. how do I share them?

Both in one arm is a bold choice. Please do share experience, need to prepare for mine.

Linguists Hear an Accent Begin Residents of an overwintering station in Antarctica provided linguists with evidence of the first small changes in speech that may signal the development of a new accent.

Antarctic scientists showed tiny, early signs of a new accent after spending all winter in isolated groups talking to each other. Cool to see exactly how the process of language divergence starts #langsky

My advice to residents: see the attending as your GPS, not your seatbelt. You will be on your own soon. Develop autonomy.

Same bro

Now that’s a meeting I would love to go to 🤓

Fancy!

Nice hotel. Where is it?

Many people assume being sliced in half by an elevator is the same no matter the orientation, but it actually makes a big difference if the plane of dissection is transverse, sagittal, or coronal. This is why you should consult with experts prior to pursuing an elevator-assisted dissection.

Mark your rhythm strips with a love heart so they know you care

Living life on the edge 👇🏽