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heart failure & transplant cardiologist | cardiovascular geneticist | Mass General Hospital | all posts my opinion | strong supporter of a free press | #CardioSky
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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

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I feel like this is actually an unpopular opinion: the withholding of funding for my lab (currently impounded) is much less important than the rejection of the constitutional order implied by the act of withholding the funding.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Free to print histology coloring book allert! histologycoloringbook.com/chapters/

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The White House has ground NIH operations to a halt. E.g., the NHLBI’s CCHS study section, which evaluates large patient-oriented cardiovascular research proposals, was cancelled at the last minute this week. This is bad for science, scientists, patients/the public, and the economy.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

“Let them suffer the consequences of their actions.” I see this so much in my mentions, often from anonymous accounts who could be bots or ops for all I know, but whatever they are, they are trying to normalize a false bifurcation. If “they” are suffering, so are people you consider to be “us.”

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

I personally will continue to use "Gulf of Mexico" because our president is a wrathful felonious nincompoop with the intellect of paramecium and I do not consent to his cartographic buffoonery

submitted 14 days ago • 998 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Please remember that this is a public space and we shouldn’t post anything our patients might recognize A bad day or a cool procedure means different things to us than if you are a patient seeing your doctor write it

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

ProPublica reporters are dedicated to investigating government agencies and federal policy. Concerned public servants are some of our most important sources. We appreciate the difficult situations people weigh as they decide whether to reach out. Here's how to securely get in touch.

submitted 38 days ago • 72 comments

James Bond accurately predicted that the biggest threat to life on earth is super rich businessmen whose money didn’t make them happy, and whose hobby was destroying the world

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Just donated to the Freedom of the Press Foundation and to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2 great orgs that support financially vulnerable reporters who are facing an incredible onslaught of bogus suits. Disney would not stand up to defend the 1st amendment protection against libel.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

ICU Hemodynamics: Right heart catheterization cheat sheet (by visualmed.org ):

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Another failure of a fast-tracked drug FDA approved based on a surrogate endpoint (alk phos) that increases rather than decreases the risk of transplant or death in Primary Biliary Cholangitis. www.medpagetoday.com/gastroentero...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Consult from ED for CHB. Hint: Patient was asymptomatic #ECGsky #cardiosky #medsky #EPeeps

submitted 78 days ago • 5 comments

1/17 [Why] is furosemide susceptible to malabsorption from "gut edema"? When a patient with heart failure is hospitalized with congestion I often hear "let's use IV furosemide; they're probably not absorbing the PO." It's a comment unique to furosemide. But is it accurate?

submitted 1153 days ago • 6 comments

1/16 🤔Why does carcinoid syndrome affect the right heart valves more often than the left heart valves? The difference is striking. Let's have a look.

submitted 767 days ago • 2 comments

1/ On the 3rd day of Pharmacy Advent, here’s today’s med pearl! Inspired by a consult yesterday about warfarin-antibiotic DDIs: Not all antibiotics interact with warfarin as drug interaction checkers might suggest. Let’s dive in! 👇 #medsky #pharmsky #EMsky #HMsky #GPsky #IDsky #emimcc

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

QS-waves. It is old MI with persistent STE (LV aneurysm)? Or is it acute? hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2024/11/rece... #ECGsky #Medsky #EPeeps #cardiosky

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Thoughts today are with those spending Thanksgiving away from their families in hospital. Special thanks to our extraordinary health care workers, nurses, and doctors here at Stanford and around the world who are there for them every day. But especially on this day, I am so grateful for you all.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments