June is Pride Month! 🏳‍🌈🌈 ASA is committed to providing meaningful support to all of our members, including those in the LGBTQ community. We celebrate the contributions of LGBTQ individuals to medicine and society. #Pride #PrideMonth

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

time.com/7286127/medi... "Sustaining this progress will be especially vital to future domestic medical advances & the prosperity of millions of Americans in future generations." Could not agree more. Investing in research makes America great. Suppressing it makes America weak.

ASA has joined over 20 national medical specialties to express concern about the impact of recent Congressional proposals on Medicaid beneficiary coverage. Members, learn more from ASA President Dr. Donald Arnold: community.asahq.org/mmo/5-19-25 #anesthesiology #anesthesiology

Thinking today about the visionary Richard Suzman, who saw the necessity of cross-national data to understand health in the US and embedded values of data & research sharing in HRS and intn'l sister studies. A credit to #NIA and a force still. #PublicHealth #EpiSky www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/h...

Wonderful message from Dr. Holden Thorp (EIC @science.org ) about @elisabethbik.bsky.social identifying fabricated data, sometimes in Science papers, & "trusted colleague" in the scientific publishing process. Deeply important for public trust to run towards, not away from, corrections.

See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

“Target trial emulation” is an observational research framework that helps investigators avoid pitfalls in study design and analysis. In a new Readers' Toolbox, Messinger et al. present an overview of the framework and considerations for research: ow.ly/teg450VfPLQ

Sure, this is bad for Johns Hopkins, bad for its employees, bad for America, bad for the world, but that's just the price we have to pay for the eugenics project of bored billionaires who long for the good old days of apartheid.

A lot of the “achievements” of western civilization actually kind of suck but one thing that definitely does not suck is how half our children don’t die anymore

The Anesthesia Research Council steering committee formed an AI expert workgroup to evaluate the current state of AI in anesthesiology, provide examples of future AI applications, and identify barriers to AI progress. Read their recommendations: ow.ly/Lhka50VfOrt

Fantastic article about suppression of intellectual freedom, starting with science and universities, from a fellow academic/research mom. 😓 Scary, scary times. Call, write, demonstrate, communicate the importance of science as part of America's freedom!! minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/13/i...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

👋 me too! shopping locally & intentionally has been good in all possible ways except for how my kids are assholes in a store bc we inadvertently neglected to teach them how to behave while shopping. 😐 too much delivery during critical neural plasticity periods.

ADRCs provide incredible care to people w healthy aging & w cognitive complaints, AND are driving the next therapeutics and strategies to help preserve cognitive health. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias will affect nearly all of us if we're lucky to live long enough, btw.😐 We need these!

Years ago my wife got me a t-shirt with this delightful sequence from "Curious George Takes a Job". I wore that t-shirt out.

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

Very grateful to our @scripps.edu President/CEO Pete Schultz, for this OpEd in @sandiegouniontribune.com on the key importance of research institutions in U.S. biomedical science and how federal support is critical to fuel new discoveries and medicines. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/25/o...

Here's an example of "government waste" In 1982, at least 7 people in the Chicago area died from poisoned Tylenol The killer was never found, but government scientists figured out how the packages were tampered with That's why we have safety seals *Regulations are one way we protect ourselves*

🔬🧪🥼🧠🦠📈🟦 Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has "brought biomedical research to the brink of crisis by holding up much of the $47 billion the United States spends on the field every year." Article gifted from @nytimes.com - read it for free without a subscription.

We met with policymakers about the importance of federal programs that support biomedical research and discovery. Proposed NIH F&A cuts to 15% would cost UCSF ~$200M annually, threatening life-saving research. We urge protecting the current rate negotiation system.

"In a world of ideological and partisan division, health should be the ultimate nonpartisan good. We do the research we do so that more people can live long, healthy lives, and live them as they wish to live them." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

1/ When using observational data for #causalinference, emulating a target trial helps solve some problems... but not all problems. In a new paper, we explain why and when the #TargetTrial framework is helpful. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... Joint work with my colleagues @causalab.bsky.social

"Without research to point toward a healthier country, there will be poorer national health and less capacity to do what people do...on either end of the political spectrum." Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social. ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ #MedSky

Our best wishes go out to all the amazing NIH people who were removed. We see your service and your good work. We will do whatever we can to fight. Take care of yourself and then when you’re ready, jump back in the fray. 💕 1/

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

We need to shout from the rooftops how and why NIH funded health research is important, and what is accomplished with this work: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art... We're not just doing this because we secretly love reformatting our biosketches & spending weekends writing grants. #EpiSky

JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods: Factorial clinical trial designs allow for the simultaneous evaluation of multiple treatments and their interactions. ja.ma/41iGzZj #MedSky

Viewpoint: Political interference in the medical profession threatens evidence-based standards of care and the autonomy of health care professionals. ja.ma/4hAB9hU #MedSky

"Few have questioned who should own hospitals and other essential health care resources." This Viewpoint discusses the collapse of the Steward Health Care system and the conflict between financial ambition and clinical mission. ja.ma/4hzhXkH #MedSky

Disruptive events among people with dementia are times to reevaluate preferences and care planning, bc decline is likely coming Great paper from colleagues @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social and Mount Sinai, including @alexsmithmd.bsky.social

🔬🧪🥼🧠🦠📈🟦 Between Feb 3-10, 2024: NIH issued 513 grant awards totaling $218,273,053. Between Feb 3-10, 2025: NIH issued just 11 grant awards totaling $4,981,089. I.e., since the courts ordered a full resumption in grant funding, NIH still only approved a handful of grants - 2.2% of typical volume

Private equity acquisitions of US hospitals have increased over the past decade, and such acquisitions were associated with a worsening of patient care experience compared to non-acquired hospitals. ja.ma/4hQZu2L #MedSky

We made it on Cell's 2014-2024 timeline! :) #T1D #StemCells #CellTherapy www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Congrats to Dr. @alexsmithmd.bsky.social, for receiving the Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in Palliative Care at the #HPMAssembly! True to form, he had the audience singing along during his speech—watch it here: https://buff.ly/40RnuvB #PalliativeCare

I have a confession . . . I was an “overhead cost”. I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it. Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician. Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.

🧬🦠🧠🥼🧪📈🟦 @ebi.embl.org: Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk. Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI? Do you plan to back up more U.S. data? @altcdc.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🧵 When Medicine and Science Ignores Diversity, People Die. 1/ Ignoring diversity in medicine and science is deadly. From unethical experiments to life-threatening misdiagnoses, history is replete with examples of how neglecting race, gender, and identity costs lives. A thread of concrete examples.

Today, we are one step closer to the next pandemic, just as the people in charge proudly proclaim that they don’t believe in either vaccines or infectious diseases. Without public health communication, we are flying blind. If I haven’t been posting, it’s because I am literally at a loss for words.

I honestly feel like I am losing my mind because the scale of what is happening just does not seem to be registering for most people and is not being reflected on the pages (or webpages) of our national newspapers.

#GirlPower #Math I am in awe of Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson. Making the impossible possible. What futures they have! Here is their published paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Adding context: Dr Covinsky is a senior (sorry, Ken 😅), internationally respected clinician-scientist geriatrician & med school professor who's dedicated his life to the best possible care for older Veterans. I cannot overstate the importance of, the expertise & experience behind, this man's take.

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Elbowed one of those in 2004. Still not over it. 🤣

Uh oh. I have been noticing the physical impacts of all the chaos, fear, and hopelessness from the last week and a half. Nice to put a name on it, but... Yikes. 😢

WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.