Krishna Komanduri
@drkomanduri.bsky.social
Physician in Chief @UCSFCancer; Chief Hem/Onc @UCSFHealth; @ASTCT Past-President. Father of four, husband, shutterbug, aspiring pizzaiolo. Views here mine only.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Does he understand how health insurance works? Serious question.
Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt? He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
A great way to stand up to cancer is voting in politicians who will fund scientific research.
A view of the (now razed) Jacqueline Kennedy Rose Garden from the #EastWing from my visit to the #WhiteHouse in January, 2025.
Posting this picture from my January trip to the beautiful and historic East Wing of the White House for no particular reason today.
This is an obvious example of why honest public health data are needed and how data-driven health policy changes can have a real impact on outcomes. #allergies #publichealth #peanuts www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
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The two latest additions to the @ucsfhealth.bsky.social inpatient ecosystems now have new names: UCSF Health Stanyan and UCSF Health Hyde Hospitals. And both will play a big part of our expansion to best meet the needs of residents of San Francisco and beyond. www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...
UCSF Health Marks New Chapter in Strengthening Community Hospitals
UCSF Health is advancing a new chapter in its commitment to San Francisco by strengthening two long-standing community hospitals through targeted investments in facilities, technology, and operations ...
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NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population. Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient. Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe And so much more important work. But they’re destroying it all.
Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020
This study examines prevalence of iron deficiency among females aged 12 to 21 years to inform future screening strategies for iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH@rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 10mo agoUgh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky
These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
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I asked ChatGPT to draw me a map showing where Columbus actually landed and glad my historical gaps are all cleared up now.
Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds. FFS
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoTrump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open.
👏 The rankings are in! We’re proud to be among the nation’s #BestHospitals — and the No. 1 hospital in California and San Francisco, according to @usnews.com! 🎉
UCSF Health Ranks Among Nation's Best for 2025-26
U.S. News & World Report ranked UCSF No. 1 in CA & Top 20 in the nation.
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There’s a deli in south Minneapolis that’s North Stars themed (complete with showing old games) 35 years after the team relocated to Dallas. Pretty badass.
Make America Salmonella Again.
Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · last yr."The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
This work and that of Edward Chang at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social is staggering in its implications of how we understand speech generation and wiil map its output in individuals unable to form words. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... What a world this is and why we need #SCIENCENOW for a better tomorrow.
Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses
Inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and can be decoded in real time to restore communication to people with paralysis. Unintentional decoding of private inner speech can be preven...
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Quite surprised to learn that cytomegalovirus was this into football.
I hope it wasn’t sentient so they don’t send the ships from the home planet tomorrow.
Shrew@shrewshrew.bsky.social · 12mo agoLook at this fucking tomato we ate for dinner. It's four dimensional. Hypercube ass tomato
Not a surprise to anyone with a basic understanding of economics and trade.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Prices rose in June on items heavily exposed to tariffs, such as home furnishings, toys and appliances, government data show.
One thing I’ve learned in leadership is regardless of position about where strategy should go, decisions should be based on transparent, reliable data. This is deeply disturbing. And Orwellian.
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · last yr.Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.
Interestingly, the Board *does have control. Powell only gets one vote See also: not understanding how the economy works
Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...
Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows
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