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Andrea Borondy Kitts

@findlungcancer.bsky.social

Lung Cancer and Patient Advocate, Researcher, MPH, Associate Editor JACR, Retired Aerospace Engineer, lost my husband to lung cancer April 12, 2013 (she/her)

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Neiman HPI@neimanhpi.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 New #NeimanHPI study in journal CHEST finds shared decision-making visits are linked to up to 32.5% higher adherence to annual lung cancer screening. @findlungcancer.bsky.social #lungcancer #lungcancerscreening bit.ly/SDM_LCS

Doctor-led Shared Decision-Making Significantly Boosts Lung Cancer Screening Adherence Over Time

A new study published in CHEST finds that Medicare beneficiaries who participated in a shared decision-making visit with their healthcare provider prior to their initial lung cancer screening were …

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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last yr.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

@doublewhammied@doublewhammied.bsky.social · last yr.

"As the NIH begins to reinstate grants, it's creating a surprising map of winners & losers at odds w/the 🍊admin’s politics. Some institutions, mostly in blue states, are back 2 a semblance of normalcy, others, mostly in red states, are left 2 pick up the pieces of ..." 1/2 #CanSky #IDSky #OncoSky

Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states

Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 million in Republican districts.

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Andrea Borondy Kitts @findlungcancer.bsky.social · last yr.

Nav Bronc was noninferior to CT guided transthoracic biopsy with much fewer pneumothoraxes Navigational Bronchoscopy or Transthoracic Needle Biopsy for Lung Nodules | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #lcsm

Navigational Bronchoscopy or Transthoracic Needle Biopsy for Lung Nodules | NEJM

Each year, millions of pulmonary nodules are identified incidentally or through lung cancer screening, and many involve biopsy to distinguish cancer from benign processes. Both navigational broncho...

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Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last yr.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · 2y ago

FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, has just resigned. In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out

In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

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