This #BlackHistoryMonth, ASH honors the Black pioneers in #hematology whose discoveries, leadership, and advocacy have shaped the field and continue to save lives. Their impact lives on in every breakthrough and every patient served.
Looking forward to #ISA2026 in beautiful Montevideo in Nov 2026. Program now available www.isaamyloidosis.org/isa-2026-sym...
Abstract submission window: 3/2026-7/1/26.
political appointees at NIH and why
Batt: the key thing is to not be political
She: dumbass you have 5x the political appointees big used to have
Sen Baldwin now, asking about multi year funding. How is this not a huge setback for research? How many fewer grants were funded?
Batt: begins a stemwinder
Baldwin cuts him off and gives him the number, then talks about the labor HHS bill that limits MY
Baldwin now talking about huge increase in
This is a powerful line of questioning from Senator Hassan and an outrageous answer from Director Bhattacharya.
"If there were disruptions then it is the responsibility of the researchers that were managing the patients, not the NIH" because "I ordered that ... there would be continuity of care."
Bernie: do vaccines cause autism? Yes or no
Batt: not the measles one
Bernie: no no, not measles, vaccines
Batt, very demure: I have not seen any evidence that they do
Batt, muttering: thebestwaytostopmeaslesepidemicisbyvaccination
Bernie, waving his arms: SAY IT LOUDER!
These peptides have not been shown to cure or treat anything. Safety hasn't been established. Yet, many of the people taking stacks of them, injecting into their bloodstream, are the same ones who are against vaccines. nymag.com/intelligence...
Alex Pretti’s coworkers hold a moment of silence for him.
Devastating and infuriating.
Nurses want peace.
Wife and I in tears reading this…
Organisational toxicity in healthcare: three years ago I asked #MedTwitter to share their red flags. We got hundreds of replies - the thread oozed pain. Three people offered to help write it up… our paper was published last week.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please share it 🙏🏼 #MedSky
Not good to see the rise in p-tau181, a marker of brain inflammation tied to increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, in a prospective cohort (mean age 56 years) with #LongCovid and neurological symptoms
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
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Tween and teen looked at the 67th ASH Annual Meeting website and pointed out: 6 7 😂 #ASH25 @ash.hematology.org
Fantastic Ham-Wasserman lecture by Chiara Bonini on T cell engineering & gene editing - also a beautiful example of what mentorship / leadership should be - acknowledging her mentors and collaborators & especially highlighting the work of her many mentees #ash25 @ash.hematology.org
Sharing our trial in progress, IMPACT AL, testing teclistamab combined with daratumumab in newly diagnosed #alamyloidosis at #ASH25 meetin. Excited to work with Drs Chakraborty, Lentzsch, and Sanchorawala, with funding from J&J and SU2C.
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New-to-me but very helpful visualizations how all the actions of the past ten months are affecting the CDC www.cdcdataproject.org
A study in Nature Climate Change quantifies the potential for extreme heat events in Europe to generate mass mortality and projects tens of thousands of excess deaths. go.nature.com/483zJc3 🧪
Here I display single year age total and by firearm suicide death rates by single year age up to age 84 for Democratic and Republican voting states. |See text for more information. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Republican #Democratic
Why do whales and elephants have much lower rates of cancer than expected?
"Species with a lower cancer prevalence and mortality
risk are those with a higher presence of cooperative and caring habits, while the opposite is found....:"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It is important for all myeloma clinicians to know about the CAR-T toxicities that occur outside of the acute post CAR-T period, such as non-ICANS neurotoxicities, second primary malignancies, and IEC-enterocolitis. ---Benjamin Puliafito, MD #IMS25
Join us in Hall FG at 2:00 PM to congratulate this year's #IMS25 award recipients!
STEM trial by Dr Cohen- use of sequential cevostamab after BCMA CAR-T- feasible, safe, associated with high efficacy #IMS25 Late Breaking Abstract
IMS President Philippe Moreau exhorts researchers to submit their best original work, first reports of important clinical trials, to the IMS Annual Meeting- the largest myeloma-focused annual meeting. #IMS25
Grab your cuppa Tim Hortons- day 2 of #IMS25 in #toronto has begun with an educational session on relapsed myeloma management.
#IMS2025 kicks off at Toronto, CA!
We are getting ready for YOU! Here’s a first look inside #IMS25 👀 It all begins tomorrow at 8:00 AM. See you soon!
