🚨 ALERT: After the 2nd deadliest pediatric flu season in 20 years with 280 child deaths mostly unvaccinated, next year’s flu could be even worse without urgent action. Is the US ready for another pediatric flu crisis? Vaccines save lives #MedSky #FluSeason2025 #VaccinateKids #PublicHealth

Mississippi’s infant mortality rate is on the rise, raising concern among doctors and public health leaders. Socioeconomic challenges and gaps in healthcare access are making this trend especially alarming. www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...

My short piece in @acadmedjournal.bsky.social trainee series “The Moment I Knew.” A reminder this #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth 🎗️that survival should never depend on where a child is born. journals.lww.com/academicmedi...

Happy almost July 1📅 to all the new interns starting residency 🩺🥼! I know the feeling of stress, anxiety, & excitement as you embark on this long road. Just re-sharing my thread of 7 pearls for new interns, as a former chief resident & current Peds Heme/Onc fellow. #MedSky

Some of my reflections "On Being a Doctor" in the @annalsofim.bsky.social. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Incredible keynote by Hayley Arceneaux at #ASPHO! @stjude.bsky.social

Pro tip for physicians or anyone in medicine who’s moving: scrubs make the best packing material. Soft, durable, & you definitely have way too many. Give that random pair from 10+ years ago a final mission!

With all the challenges in American healthcare, seeing the joy and excitement of new physicians on Match Day always gives me hope for the future. Congratulations to all who matched!! #MatchDay

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Happy Match Week! 🎉 To all the soon-to-be physicians finding out their training home this week, congratulations! Take a moment to reflect on how far you have come - and an incredible journey is ahead. #Match2025 #pedsmatch2025

Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have uncovered the mechanism behind retinoic acid's selective killing of metastatic neuroblastoma cells. This discovery may pave the way for improved combination therapies. ow.ly/PgBl50V8hZn

Today is #RareDiseaseDay - a day to raise awareness for the 300M people worldwide living with rare diseases, over half of whom are children. #Cancer in childhood is a rare disease w/ 12+ major types. We must keep pushing for research, treatments, & hope. #ChildhoodCancer🎗️

Did you see the Word of Life mural lit up in a rainbow of colors this week? It's striped with blue, green, pink, and purple in honor of #RareDiseaseDay. #LightUpForRare

When I started my medical training, measles was a disease of the past - something I learned about in textbooks, not something I saw in hospital beds. Now, children in this country are dying from measles. This cannot become our new status quo. #vaccineswork

Scientists have successfully led the first in utero treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) with risdiplam. This groundbreaking trial shows promise for prenatal intervention in SMA. Learn more: ow.ly/ywFE50V39Hs

Cancer Center Near Me-St Jude Children’s Research Hospital🎗️ @stjuderesearch.bsky.social @stjude.bsky.social Founded in 1962 by Danny Thomas, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has revolutionized the treatment and survival rates of pediatric diseases.

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A 🧵 for 🧪 trainees: This is a challenging time for scientists. Many of our federal colleagues have been dismissed, grant funding is in limbo, and morale may be poor. Some of you may be questioning how your career will be affected by the upheaval our community has experienced. Don't give up. 1/5

Hundreds burned to death after Goma prison set on fire. #Congo #DRC www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Elon says 90% of US aid never reaches communities. He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous. @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...

Some quick math on USAID

To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms). I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.

Medicaid - which covers nearly 1 in 5 Americans - is offline nationwide. This disruption will have devastating consequences for our healthcare system if not resolved immediately.

In the #DRC - Rebels claim to have captured major city #Goma. This could trigger a major humanitarian crisis in a region that has faced massive challenges, including past disease outbreaks like Ebola. Why working with international orgs like #WHO & #UN is so important! apnews.com/article/cong...

Have we considered what we will do if they take down PubMed?

Huntington, WV, is known as ground zero for the opioid epidemic. With a population of 100,000, it's been flooded with 10 million pills a year. ND alumnus Paul Farrell partnered with the Lab for Economic Development to help fight the opioid epidemic in his hometown & nationwide: go.nd.edu/fb4589

The M23 rebel group is advancing on eastern DRC's largest city Goma, and 100,000 + people have been forced to flee homes. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...

New hope for children and adults with hemianopia - Eric Bouffet https://oncodaily.com/blog/eric-bouffet-195013 ##Cancer ##Oncology ##OncoDaily ##Medicine ##Health ##Hemianopia

When you think of a college football player, a 30-year old former Army Infantry and Communications officer typically doesn’t come to mind .. but that's ND Kicker Eric Goins. Learn how his experience in the military is an addition to the Notre Dame Football team: go.nd.edu/80a287

A reminder of the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine during the omicron surge, with respect to weekly death rate.

Looking forward to connecting with folks from #MedTwitter here on #MedSky! #GlobalHealth #VaccinesWork