Anita D'Souza

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 Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.

‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The CDC Data Project In the proposed FY26 budget, programs that help Americans live safer, healthier, longer lives are on the chopping block.

New-to-me but very helpful visualizations how all the actions of the past ten months are affecting the CDC www.cdcdataproject.org

This is figure 2, which shows temperature–mortality relationship across Europe.

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 🧪

The order of the colored limes is a bit confusing so let's look at them in order from the bottom to the top. The bottom line of square yellow dots shows the suicide death rates by firearms in the Democratic voting states by age as you follow that line you get the firearm suicide rates by age from age nine through age 84. The age group 85+ is excluded because it is hard to interpret because nobody lives through it. The pattern is generally followed by each of the groups, from age 9 through 22 the firearm suicide rate goes up. Then it sharply shifts to nearly level line that slightly increases up to age 55 when all but Democratic firearm suicides decline until about age 70 when the rate slightly more than doubles at the end. Next, let's do the line of green diamonds, the total Democratic voting states, their being lower at the right end actually makes them lower than the Republican voting states firearm suicides. They follow the same pattern as the Democrats by firearms except they decline from age 55 to about 70. Then they increase like the others but at a less steep rate in increase. Next to the top is the Republican's suicides by firearms. They follow the Democratic voting states almost exactly to age 20 then they edge down to bouncing between two and three points below the Democrats total until age 65 when they exhibit the steepest increase in the final years. The last line is the red diamonds for the Republican total which is consistently the highest. They follow the pattern of the total Democrat line of dots but generally get closer to the total Democratic line at the end. Here are the two letter abbreviations for states: Dem Mix Rep CA AZ AL CO GA AK CT IA AR DE MI FL DC MN ID HI NH IN IL NC KS ME OH KY MD PA LA MA TX MS NV WI MO NJ MT NM NE NY ND OR OK RI SC VT SD VA TN WA UT WV WY

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

Coevolution of cooperative lifestyles and reduced cancer prevalence in mammals While cooperative mammals evolve reducing cancer prevalence, oncogenes can be maintained by selection in competitive species.

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!

On what the future looks like unless folks make some noise! We need everyone calling their reps! At a payline of 10%, that means 1 in 10 apps gets funding. We will be looking at 1 in 20 to 1 in 100.

Never Flinch, Stephen King’s latest.

The President’s FY26 Budget cuts NIH funding by nearly 40%, This would halt critical hematology research progress. ASH urges Congress to reject these cuts and support sustained medical research funding.

Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/45QcvXk

#Fight4Hematology

I switched from Amazon to bookshop.org so that my purchases support one of my local bookstores

Nice shout out after discussion of Nivo PostOp study in head and neck cancer at @ascocancer.bsky.social plenary for judicial and financial advocacy for cancer patients and researchers. #ASCO25

BlueSky only

Some basic facts about international students, who they are and who they are not

Please pass on the message

@shashikalb.bsky.social

💡 Join our session and master complex cases: "From MI to amyloid: A diagnostic journey with cutting-edge management." Learn from top specialists at our interactive event. Register here for FREE: www.isaamyloidosis.org/2025-may-cas...

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To Those Who Call Themselves Christian But Justify the Order of the World My god you think that's what love is? Go to your little, bitter meetings, your callous rallies, your fear that steals your souls. You think you can choose who is beautiful? Your country is open to the chosen— while somewhere, in the shadows of your houses, the one you believe you are hearing is hanging in a crown of thorns, in agony, burning the world with mercy, his arms in an embrace he cannot close. —Joseph Fasano

Weather and climate data shown on this website and countless others are at risk. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the U.S. agency responsible for global weather forecasting, hurricane prediction, ocean observation, and many other services vital to public safety. Its satellites, supercomputers, and research teams provide essential data that help us understand our planet and protect lives. On February 27, the new U.S. administration initiated mass firings at NOAA. These actions are unethical and deeply disruptive to the talented scientists and engineers who dedicate themselves to the public good. The firings, along with expected budget cuts, have serious implications for the availability and quality of weather forecasts produced by the United States. They must be reversed immediately. Much of the data on this website is downloaded directly from NOAA's servers. In this environment of uncertainty, access could be disrupted at any time. While I'll strive to keep all features on this website functional and switch to alternative data sources if necessary, some datasets have no substitute if they go offline. If this concerns you, speak up. Share on social media. And if you're in the U.S., contact your representatives. - Cameron •

One of my very most favorite weather websites: earth.nullschool.net

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

That feeling of being bullied, talked over, cut off, made to feel like you aren't grateful enough...felt uncomfortably familiar.

I'm assuming others also had a visceral reaction to that "conversation" becase on their own personal experiences with situations like this.

RFK Jr. moves to eliminate public comment in HHS decisions HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved to rescind the longtime practice of giving the public a chance to comment on the health agency’s plans.

Breaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...