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Stone former, stone preventer
https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1629018908/david-s-goldfarb
Todayās Wadi Suki Symposium at Houston Methodist was terrific! Excellent program was a great intro for
#KidneyWk
- started with stones & climate!
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Hey look. Communism.
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#KidneyWk
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www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
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Houston Airport TSA Wait Times Top 3 Hours As Unpaid Screeners Told To Get Loans During Shutdown
TSA workers were told sick calls will bring āappropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possibleā after the shutdown endsābut airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely bac...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/11/03/houston-bush-airport-tsa-wait-times-scare-tactics/
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#kidneyweek
2016 and 2025
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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So they didnāt like the ad. Letās just post Reaganās 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of yāall are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying āletās post Reaganās speech.ā
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
https://youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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Jonathan Howard
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Wow. Thank you so much
@jessicawildfire.bsky.social
for the kind words and review. š
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-grip-tig...
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Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"
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Something I don't understand about AEs of aldosterone synthase inhibitor therapy
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
: why does it cause hyponatremia? Placebo: 0.4%; 1 mg 0.8%; 2 mg 2.3%. ChatGPT couldn't explain. Maybe
@hswapnil.medsky.social
@kidneyboy.bsky.social
understand this?
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Baxdrostat Efficacy and Safety in Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension
Aldosterone dysregulation plays an important pathogenic role in hard-to-control hypertension. We tested the efficacy and safety of baxdrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, in patients with uncon...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7618089/
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Swapnil Hiremath ššØš¦
27 days ago
RIP NHANES? As the piece below points out: NHANES may actually be aligned with some healthy eating and chronic disease prevention goals of MAHA. Just a reckless wrecking ball
#MedSky
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Megan Prochaska introduces the Fredric L Coe Symposium in war-ravaged Chicago
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."
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The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done! COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions. Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine. How did that happen?š§µ
sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...
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Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!
The pandemicās biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-else-is-lying-to-you-my-book-it-done/
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Fernanda Arce-AmarƩ
about 2 months ago
What a delight meeting finally
@weddellite.bsky.social
in person in NYC during
#UNGA
! Such an amazing person!
#UNGA80
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Addressing diabetes and kidney health with International Society of Nephrology
dvx.cm/UNGA80
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ACOG
about 2 months ago
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHSās recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk.
https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
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By the way. He really should read We Want Them Infected. It helps explain how we got to this moment. In his review,
@hiltzikm.bsky.social
grasped the threat.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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jamelle
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didnāt Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldnāt Either.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk8.syoh.898ezmQg_rnf&smid=url-share
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The New York Times
about 2 months ago
In
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
āWe can mourn Charlie Kirk. We can send prayers to his friends and family,ā writes our columnist Jamelle Bouie. āWe can ā and should ā do all of this and more without pretending he was something, as a public figure, that he was not.ā
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didnāt Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldnāt Either.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Gregg Gonsalves
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The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administrationās savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that wonāt happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/trump-defunding-medical-research.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Jeremy Berg
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Agreed, but... I wish this sort of coverage had been more timely. We need preventative care or early treatment, not documentation of an autopsy.
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Climate & Kidney Health in the American Urological Associationā News - itās that time of year!
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Climate Change and Kidney Health - American Urological Association
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human activities have been undermining the health of our planet for years. As a result, it appears that via climate change, we have caused threats to our ...
https://auanews.net/issues/articles/2025/july/august-2025/climate-change-and-kidney-health
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Gregg Gonsalves
4 months ago
Thank you
@idsainfo.bsky.social
,
@ameracadpeds.bsky.social
and the other professional societies that have stood up to confront the absurd and deadly anti-vaxx views of
#RFKJr
and his co-conspirators,
#MartyMakary
,
#VinayPrasad
and
#JayBhattacharya
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
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Ben Goldfarb
4 months ago
A grotesque privilege to see Kent Monkmanās THE KINGāS BEAVERS in person at the Denver Art Museum. Certainly the greatest beaver-related painting ever made, and one of the best at depicting the horrors of colonialism, the fur trade generally, and the industrial-scale exploitation of wildlife.
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Yes! No kidding! National Institutes of Health Workers Denounce āHarmfulā Policies
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: National Institutes of Health Workers Denounce āHarmfulā Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/09/us/trump-news?smid=bs-share
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist
5 months ago
Donald Trump wants to turn LA into Mogadishu ahead of his parade to show off his ability to use the military to create a dictatorship. Well, Iāve lived here for fifteen years and I donāt think he knows who heās dealing with.
www.mind-war.com/p/testing-te...
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Testing, Testing: Los Angeles Under Attack
Trump wants to turn LA into Mogadishu to expand his military powers
https://www.mind-war.com/p/testing-testing-los-angeles-under
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Peter Gleick
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Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists...
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More US scientists must speak out
Nature Human Behaviour - The Trump administration has launched an extraordinary and dangerous attack on US science. Climate and water scientist Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and...
https://rdcu.be/eo3Hb
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Peter Gleick
5 months ago
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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Opinion | Get Mad in Public, and 12 Other Ways to Save Health and Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/save-health-science-climate.html?smid=bs-share
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The President Will Destroy You Now
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Opinion | The President Will Destroy You Now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/opinion/trump-musk-doge-government.html?searchResultPosition=1
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in today's
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...
An excerpt highlighting ONE disaster (one particularly close and personal for many of us here:
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Opinion | āI Even Believe He Is Destroying the American Presidencyā
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/opinion/trump-musk-doge-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.rndC.uALi_zZj24cu&smid=url-share
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Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
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Opinion | Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/opinion/medicaid-work-requirements-pointless.html?smid=bs-share
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Swapnil Hiremath ššØš¦
6 months ago
Beautiful essay from Rajeev Raghavan in the
@nejm.org
Driving Jackson (a dialysis patient to his clinic appointments)
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Driving Jackson | NEJM
When a low-income patient receiving home dialysis misses the bus to the clinic, his nephrologist makes a decision that launches a long-term relationship and brings unexpected meaning into his own life...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2414963?rss=searchAndBrowse
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@kidneycon.bsky.social
@kidneyboy.bsky.social
- time to unclamp!?
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No surprise here, just the expected disaster.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration
The Trump administration told researchers it was āreleasingā them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/climate/national-climate-assessment-authors-dismissed.html
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Ben Goldfarb
7 months ago
āThis is the billionaire class wanting to run the country, and their vision for the Rocky Mountain West is privatization.ā
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7 months ago
This outrage was about a single YouTube video. Source:
www.flgov.com/eog/news/pre...
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Science Magazine
7 months ago
Exclusive: Towana Looney, a 53-year-old woman who received a kidney from a gene-edited pig on 25 November 2024, had it removed last week after the organ suddenly stopped functioning, Science has learned.
scim.ag/3EiaJmM
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Longest human transplant of pig kidney fails
In latest xenotransplant test, Towana Looneyās body rejects gene-edited organ after more than 4 months
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We showed a dramatic difference (dramatic for a small sample size!) in the effect of CTD vs HCTZ on urine calcium. That's my preference for stone prevention. RCT with stone outcome needed.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40194294/
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Effect of Chlorthalidone and Hydrochlorothiazide on Twelve-Hour versus Twenty-Four Hour Urinary Calcium Excretion - PubMed
We conclude that the long-acting and more effective CTD is a preferable agent for stone prevention. Time of administration does not appear to be important, although morning administration may more eff...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40194294/
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Laurence H. Tribe
8 months ago
A letter from 91 Harvard Law Professors to our students
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letter-to-our-students.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aKzGVQxrotpNGblivMHsIdXnXwVDlJ3M/preview
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Mueller, She Wrote
8 months ago
I was told I was overreacting. Now theyāre about to fire 83,000 people from the VA. A third of whom are veterans themselves.
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Discussed here
sciencebasedmedicine.org/settledscien...
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Dr. Edward Livingston On Vaccines & Autism: āBecause of Public Skepticism, it is Not Settled Scienceā
Will new studies cause large numbers of anti-vaxxers to say "Wow. It turns our vaccines don't cause autism after all. I've been wrong the whole time."?
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/settledscience/
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
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āBecause of public skepticism, it is not settled scienceā. Excuse me allow me to interject, Dr. Livingston. We have people who think that the earth was created 6000 years ago in six 24-hour periods. Are we going to use taxpayer dollars to prove this isnāt true also?
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š°DOGE (Department of Government EXTINCTION) TRACKER šUPDATE šTrump Moves to Gut VA, Putting 83,000 Jobsāand Veteransā Careāat Risk šRead Moreš
#BeRelentless
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Best wishes during Ramadan for good kidney health -
@lamanazzal.bsky.social
opines about fluid intake during the holiday
www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/h...
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Why you need plenty of fluids if youāre fasting for Ramadan | CNN
Drinking enough water is key to staying healthy, but itās hard to do during Ramadan. Experts share tips on staying hydrated during the dawn-to-sunset fast.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/health/hydration-for-fasting-ramadan-wellness/index.html
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Eric Feigl-Ding on X: "BREAKINGāFDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next seasonās flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next yearās vaccine supply chain. https://t.co/JGGiyfImTY" / X
BREAKINGāFDA suddenly cancels meeting to update next seasonās flu vaccines, with zero explanations. Any delays will jeopardize next yearās vaccine supply chain. https://t.co/JGGiyfImTY
https://x.com/drericding/status/1894896612641542580?s=46
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Opinion | Censored Science Canāt Save Lives
Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/opinion/asthma-drugs-dei-health-research-cdc-nih.html?smid=url-share
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"The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening."
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system
People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...
https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r294
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