Vijay Rao, MD, PhD

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.

Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”

🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.

Brilliant timing.

🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.

I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.

Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money.

Federal Funding for Cancer Research As Congress negotiates Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bills, urge them to make cancer research a top priority.

@cliffordhudis.bsky.social at #ASCO25: ~40% cut to NCI budget in Admin's '26 proposal. We are in a tragic paradox: remarkable science & historic cuts to resources needed to turn these opps into hope for millions of pts. Our advocacy, is more important than ever ➡️ brnw.ch/21wT3U4

A #JACCCardioOnc perspective from Dr. @vijayrao7474.bsky.social, et al outlines the current state of #CardioOnc quality assessment and proposes a roadmap for meaningful metrics to improve care.

Get the details: bit.ly/3YhYnll #ACCCardioOnc @icosociety.bsky.social

Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 No country to date has successfully curbed the rising rates of adult overweight and obesity. Without immediate and effective intervention, overweight and obesity will continue to increase globally. Pa...

🔺>2 billion adults are #overweight or #obese!
🔺Highest age-standardised prevalence in Oceania, north Africa, Middle East
🔺Compared with 1990, 🌎 prevalence of #obesity ⬆️ by 155% in males, 105% in females
#GBD2021
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Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control' Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.

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#CardioSky @jaccjournals.bsky.social

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
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Honored to co-chair this effort with @mayocvonc and ACC Cardioonc council and @ICOSociety to lay the framework for quality initiatives in #Cardioonc @JACCJournals @ACCinTouch
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@AnaBaracCardio @sdent_cardioonc @SarjuGanatraMD @Richardkcheng2 @anita_deswal

Screenshot of a webpage from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC): CardioOncology. The page displays an article titled "State-Of-The-Art Review Article - Quality-of-Care Measures for Cardio-Oncology: An IC-OS and ACC CardioOncology Leadership Council Perspective." The navigation bar includes options for different journal sections, and the article is marked as "Open Access.

Franciscan's director of cardio-oncology Dr. Vijay Rao's latest co-authored white paper in #JACCCardioOnc, underlines the urgency for standardized quality metrics in the growing field of #cardiooncology.

Read the article at www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

We Are on Our Own From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.

Each time I have sat down to write something since the election, I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I simply cannot get out of my head.

So,I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own.
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Great article. I try and get the patient to own it. They need to know their uric acid target, they need to adjust their (usually) allopurinol in 100 mg increments. Give them the tools!!!

A NASA photo of NGC 2264- a cosmic tree that has been named the Christmas Tree Cluster which lives in our galaxy about 2,500 light-years from Earth. It contains baby stars that are between 1 and 5 million years old 🥺

when the star on the tree is an actual star lol

A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄

Efficacy of an Internet of Things-based system for cardiac rehab monitoring: insights from IntellIoT trial in #heartfailure

#CardioSky #MedSky
@escardio.bsky.social @vassv.bsky.social @victoriadelgadomd.bsky.social @gimelliale.bsky.social @robmentz.bsky.social
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It’s time for pediatricians to SPEAK UP.