Kelly, MD (Blood 🩸, Cancer 🧬, Books 📚)

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

The year I was born. we basically had no idea why cancers happened and now we understand the underlying force behind it with 100% clarity and the molecular forces behind it with many orders of magnitude more resolution.

We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.

I’m speechless. I didn’t think she could improve on Sword of Kaigen, but this is a masterpiece of character development, world-building, thematic depth, and elegant prose. This is storytelling at its peak form. #booksky 📚💙

Hank it’s too early for my brain to deal with this. Let’s just stick with one multiverse before noon.

It worked!

Well said.

Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next? Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource

PubMed has been down for at least 11 hours and we are EXTREMELY concerned. We hope it’s mere incompetence and not an official action. If any of our followers have media events today, please mention it.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

HERO vs ZERO
I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore.
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

It was coincidental that I read “James” right after re-reading “Parable of the Sower” and while a historical look at slavery and a scarily accurate dystopian prediction about 2024 did not help me feel optimistic, the synergy can’t be ignored. 📚💙

I love this

Factor V deficiency ≠ factor V Leiden. Happy to see patients with either! 🩸🧪

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Ferritin reference ranges are garbage,
And sex based hemoglobin ones are too.

Since I started routinely screening premenopausal women and lowering my threshold for screening men based on symptoms, I have caught a lot more iron deficiency cases that would have been missed with a simple CBC.

What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyone As the middlemen between drug companies and insurers, PBMs are shoo-ins as the villains behind high drug prices. But they do play a useful role in the health marketplace.

What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyone

I mean, most people don’t like trump (including most of the people who voted for him) while your followers like you

This

Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - Nature Biotechnology Adipose manipulation transplantation can reduce tumor growth and proliferation in vitro and in mouse models.

A very innovative approach to cancer: engineering fat cells to convert to beige fat to starve tumors, outcompeting 5 types of cancer in experimental models
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social y.social @nadavahituv.bsky.social tuv.bsky.social

Keep seeing quicksilver everywhere, better add to my TBR!

Yes I love Ali Hazelwood!! So excited for Deep End and also the sequel to Bride.

Covers of the 8 books I read in January: Howling Dark, Not in Love, the Demon Tide, the Dryad Storm, Martyr!, Soldier Sailor, Onyx Storm, and Ship of Magic

What got me through the start of the 2025 horror show. 📚💙 #booksky #fable

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

There is still beauty in this world

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

I have a question for medical students who matched into diagnostic rads this year. Was there conversation about this on the interview trail?

Screening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence trial (MASAI): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority, ... The findings suggest that AI contributes to the early detection of clinically relevant breast cancer and reduces screen-reading workload without increasing false positives.

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

Thanks for participating in #ASHSlideSaturday 🩸! Did you guess correctly? Check out other slides from the #ASHImageBank: bit.ly/3BO8qGz

#ASHEducation #BloodEducation #Microlearning #Microscopy #ImageChallenge #Hematology #Hematopathology #ASHTrainee

We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...

Indivisible, MoveOn, and WFP have a joint action call in about 3 hours.

Come if you can.

mobilize.us/s/orLsbr