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Robotic Colorectal Surgery Offers Shorter Hospital Stays
by Vazquez VK, Albors LM, Liu H and Ang D in JSLS #Surgery #SurgSky #GeneralSurgery #MedSky
🪡 read our summary here
📖 read the article: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti…
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Our medical establishment rose to power based on things they “would have” done and things they“called for.”
How are things going under their watch so far, now that they’ve had some time to prove their abilities and competence?
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NCI approves clinical research studies in NSCLC, lymphoma, head & neck cancer, and others.
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NCI Trials for December 2025 - The Cancer Letter
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored account.**Not all site licenses are enrolled in sponsored accounts.Login Subscribe
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New NIH Policies Make It Easier to End Grants, Ignore Peer Review www.medpagetoday.com/wash….
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New NIH Policies Make It Easier to End Grants, Ignore Peer Review
Also, long-time AIDS leader was reassigned
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Our NIH director is trying to relive 2020 all the time on X.
All of the grievances and insults from the good old days, from an account where countless people are blocked.
Not much about the NIH.
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Politico says Trump is “all in” on RFK Jr’s “plan to scrutinize the list of vaccines American children get” after RFK Jr’s extreme anti-vaxx ACIP votes to end newborn hep B vaccination
And Jay Bhattacharya, on NEWSMAX, shows he is Trump’s biggest supporter & defender—MAGA & MAHA through & through😢
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There’s a paywall but JB gets a cold reception whenever he steps out of his safe space.
People do not trust him and they are angry at him.
No wonder he is reliving Twitter wars from 2021 today.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/….
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In Massachusetts visit, Trump’s NIH chief defends move to prioritize funding research in places like Iowa, Nebraska - The Boston Globe
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told the Globe that he wants "scientists at every institution to be able to compete on the same level playing fields with the brilliant scientists here in Massachusetts."
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Spotted in the wild at #ASH25 👀
Explore the Toolkit for Clinical Trial Sponsors to build inclusive hematology trials, meet FDA and NIH expectations, and test your knowledge with an interactive game. ow.ly/ixtw50XENw3
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In first NCAB director’s report, Anthony Letai focuses on centralized grant review, budget outlook
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In first NCAB director’s report, Anthony Letai focuses on centralized grant review, budget outlook - The Cancer Letter
Anthony G. Letai’s initiation as the 18th director of the National Cancer Institute wasn’t exactly smooth. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored account.**Not all site licenses are enrolled in sponsored accounts.Login Subscribe
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In December 2025, the head of the NIH is still complaining about blue checks on Twitter from 2021.
H/t @mazer.us
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RFK Jr. Fires NIH Whistleblower Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Who Objected to Trump Administration Policies on Vaccines people.com/rfk-jr-fires... This happened 10/4/2025. Another warning RFK Jr. was up to no good. He should be fired for what he's doing to Public Health.
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RFK Jr. Fires NIH Whistleblower Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Who Objected to Trump Administration Policies on Vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a top NIH scientist who filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration in September. Marrazzo has claimed she was demoted and sil...
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From NIH:
Emergency Modifications to NIH Peer Review | Grants & Funding
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Emergency Modifications to NIH Peer Review | Grants & Funding
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💙 It’s okay not to feel holiday joy.
Dec–Jan can be especially difficult for those dealing with anxiety, PTSD, depression, or other mental health conditions.
Tips from NIMH & NAMI:
• Prioritize self-care
• Avoid drugs/alcohol
• Seek help when needed
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Anthony Letai pledges to ensure stability for extramural and intramural cancer science
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Anthony Letai pledges to ensure stability for extramural and intramural cancer science - The Cancer Letter
Stepping into the NCI director’s job at the end of a nerve-racking year, Anthony Letai wants you to know that the federal government is not going out of the business of cancer research. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register […]
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Attending #ASH25 this weekend? Don't miss the initial results from the myeloMATCH #PrecisionMedicine trial. More info on these exciting updates can be found here: dctd.cancer.gov/about/new….
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MyeloMATCH Presentations at ASH 2025
NCI's presentations on MyeloMATCH at the 2025 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting
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This is *literally* the eugenics-guided ethos of the RFK Jr/Great Barrington Declaration/anti-vaxx coalition
Take a look, for example, at Jay Bhattacharya's new pandemic preparation 'plan,' which is: do nothing and hope that the fittest people survive (insidemedicine.substack.c…)
jamelle@jamellebouie.net
ah but you see sam, if the kids get liver cancer that just means they were meant to get it and Nature is doing its job
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Congrats to Drs. Mary Ellen Vajravelu and Maya Ragavan on their R01 grant from the NIDDK for thier ONWARD project looking at youth-onset type 2 diabetes! Read more about it here: www.pediatrics.pitt.edu/n….
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Congrats to Dr. Sara Bares on her latest publication in @ofidjournal.bsky.social:
"Melanocortin-4 Receptor Gene Variants and Weight Change Following Switch to Integrase Inhibitor-Based Antiretroviral Therapy"
#IDSky #HIVSky
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Melanocortin-4 Receptor Gene Variants and Weight Change Following Switch to Integrase Inhibitor-Based Antiretroviral Therapy - PubMed
Given the melanocortin-4 receptor's (MC4R) importance in obesity, we examined associations between <i>MC4R</i> gene variants and weight following a switch to integrase inhibitor-containing antiretroviral therapy among participants in Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally studies. Among 529 person …
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Researchers report that some journals are charging authors anywhere from $2,000 to more than $10,000 to make their work immediately accessible. Rachael Sirianni, PhD, comments in this Inside Higher Ed article: direc.to/oecx
@docsirianni.bsky.social @insidehighered.com
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The NIH Policy Holding Researchers “Hostage”
An effort to make NIH-funded research immediately accessible to the public has led to disruption and financial strain for scientists already navigating a precarious funding environment. It also spotli...
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Cutting, delaying, and terminating science funding comes with costs to...
discovery,
projects,
and
people.
One more example of impacts: to a NSF-funded Biology Integration Institute. It is well past time to restore expert-driven decision-making & stable budgets to NSF, NIH, CDC...
Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social
Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1
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🍼 Infants exposed to SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy were more likely to have adverse neurodevelopmental diagnoses
💊 Metformin may help reduce risk of Long COVID
🧠 NIH is recruiting for a study on neurological symptoms of Long COVID
This week's #LongCOVID research: bit.ly/4pncbXf
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Yep. Exactly.
I suggested this question.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/…
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🕷️ CHOP is in a Lyme-endemic area, and this time of year we see more early and late disseminated Lyme.
In this study—with contributions from Dr. Fran Balamuth—the Pedi Lyme Net team examined how children with peripheral facial palsy are treated.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih....
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