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UCSD CMIO (means I do computers and internal medicine). Also love new tech, baseball. Watching for next pandemic. ASD and reading romance novels is how I recharge. She/her. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈ally Peach is the best dog https://profiles.ucsd.edu/marlene.millen
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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs? I'm a longtime environment reporter interested in NOAA, EPA and USGS. Send me tips: lisasong.42 on Signal Here's what I cover and some examples of my work: www.propublica.org/people/lisa-...

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BREAKING—RFK Jr’s FDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next year’s vaccine supply chain. God help us all.

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WHAT? Meeting to choose vaccine composition for next fall’s flu vaccine cancelled. After one of the worst flu years. 🤬 www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/h...

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#Influenza no joke this year. Our 12 yo (flu vaccine in early September) with 105(!) temperature and horrible sounding cough. She started tamiflu after video visit with her doctor. Ps- home tests for the win.

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Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-01-23T08:04:02Z Additional Details Here.

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Government website offering reproductive health information goes offline www.cbsnews.com/news/governm...

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Ted Williams Fire in San Diego Now 3 acres. Evacuating nearby area. Winds just starting in this area.

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San Diego didn’t want to miss out on the fun

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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas. Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏

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Public safety power shutoff in San Diego (and LA) began last night due to humidity in 10’s and winds with high fire risk. 1 small fire so far. #redflagwarning #weather #sandiego

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Distribution of Raw Farm's products suspended amid bird flu concerns www.yahoo.com/news/sales-r...

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1/ Influenza wastewater activity levels are currently low across the US, aside from conspicuous areas in CA where #H5N1 is spreading in dairy cows. A deeper dive into the Wastewater Scan data paints a very concerning picture and should add to our sense of urgency.

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Who could have guessed that raw milk might be risky? Another lot with bird flu detected. www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA...

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Some (more) Covid Vaccine positive news! Meta-analysis of studies which include over 14 million people in the Journal of Infection shows that COVID-19 vax is associated with a lower risk of developing long COVID. Two doses reduced the odds by 24%! www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...

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Now with over 50 journals... let me know any missing (or any predatory ones that have snuck in). go.bsky.app/A9fKca2

submitted 97 days ago • 27 comments

Just worked on my patient in-basket testing an early version of AI note summarization feature from Epic. You can use it to summarize a few notes(as long as not too long!). It is growing on me.

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When I said Kennedy Jr. could eventually kill millions, I meant it. As ever, Trump privileged money and power over everything else in promising DHHS to a madman in exchange for his endorsement. The death toll America could experience due to the greed of Donald Trump is staggering. Read this report.

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California Acts to Protect Public Health: ​CDPH Warns Against Drinking Single Lot of Raw Milk Following Bird Flu Detection; Secures Voluntary Recall​ www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA...

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Stanford expert on 'lying and technology' accused of lying about technology www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

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Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Believe your eyes! Look at these beautiful figures of a ~70 year period in the US. Watch cases of measles, mumps, rubella, polio, pertussis, smallpox, hepatitis plummet with safe & effective immunizations! 🏆 #VaccinesWork #GetVaccinated #MedEd #MedTwitter #MedSky graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

submitted 108 days ago • 986 comments

Our Jacobs Center for Health Innovation is here now: bsky.app/profile/jchi... Follow for updates on AI and digital health work happening at our center!

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What transformative potential and challenges does #AI have in #healthcare? JCHI's @kdpsingh.bsky.social offers offers a candid look in the latest episode of @csail.mit.edu podcast. @ucsdhealth.bsky.social Listen⤵️

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"All the data in the world will not make a difference, unless there are people ready to use it." — Atul Butte, MD, PHD, FACMI 2024 Morris F. Collen Award Winner

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Ludmil Alexandrov, Ph.D., speaks to #CNN about the new #AI program for examining routine biopsies, called DeepHRD, which identifies #biomarkers in breast and #ovariancancer tumors. @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social Watch full video: www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/w...

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