So excited to share our new @ash.hematology.org iron deficiency diagnosis guidelines TLDR: Adults 🩸ferritin < 30 diagnostic of ID 🩸ferritin < 50 w/symptoms or risk factors diagnostic of ID Kids 🩸ferritin <20 diagnostic of ID Get your lab intervals updated! tinyurl.com/ASHirondx
American Society of Hematology 2026 guidelines for diagnosis of iron deficiency
Background: Iron deficiency is the most common micronutrient deficiency, and when untreated progresses to anemia. Existing guidance on the diagnostic crite
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"You do my dad's legacy no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to grow up & spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them. That's wrong. That does no honor to the victims here...please stop." 👊🎤✋
Well it wouldn't be the first time Hegseth decided a school full of 12 year old girls was a legitimate target.
Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.
Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
Collagen synthesis Vitamin A metabolism and vision Muscle function Cardiovascular function 3/end
Mitochondrial metabolism Lipid metabolism Cholesterol metabolism Steroid hormone synthesis Vitamin D metabolism Bile acid metabolism Fatty acid and eicosanoid metabolism Cellular detoxification and catabolism Immune function Thyroid function Neurotransmitter synthesis 2/
A short list of things that your body needs iron for outside of erythropoiesis (making red blood cells) or why iron deficiency without anemia matters: DNA replication DNA repair Epigenetic regulation Transcription MRNA processing and translation Mitochondrial function 1/
Anemia is LATE STAGE iron deficiency. Our bodies preferentially use iron to make red blood cells over everything else so all these other functions are affected before your hemoglobin drops.
Shematologist, MD@shematologist.medsky.social · 5mo agoA short list of things that your body needs iron for outside of erythropoiesis (making red blood cells) or why iron deficiency without anemia matters: DNA replication DNA repair Epigenetic regulation Transcription MRNA processing and translation Mitochondrial function 1/
This was my claim to fame (along with some other random Bloomberg article when I was in the market for a new #electric #vehicle lol) also featuring @shematologist.medsky.social. This article actually got one of my college friends calling me with similar problems, so I hope it helps some of you too
Exhausted? Irritable? It could be undiagnosed iron deficiency
Around a third of women of reproductive age could have low iron. But doctors don’t routinely screen for the condition, though it can lead to anemia. Symptoms include exhaustion, headaches and more.
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Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
Study linking better cognition with higher levels of iron (ferritin) in perimenopause and menopause. Read about it here open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Menopause, Iron, and Cognition
A new study connects some of the dots
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In @nytopinion A photographer spent 15 years documenting the life of an impoverished family in rural America. This is what she witnessed.
Opinion | The Pressure of Poverty in Appalachia
A photographer spends 15 years documenting an Appalachian family and the constant pressure of poverty in their lives.
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Sometimes, the highest acts of bravery manifest wearing high heels and carrying a good bag
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last yr.ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
forward.com
"If your antidepressant stopped working, ask your doctor about..."
Mags Display Name@mags.colvett.online · last yr.I edited together all the social interactions from the Cuomo campaign relaunch video and it became a short film about clinical depression
I edited together all the social interactions from the Cuomo campaign relaunch video and it became a short film about clinical depression
I’ve heard Mamdani give versions of this line before but it’s worth repeating that his winning strategy was talking to actual human beings who might vote for him, versus some mythical voter democrats are trying to swing from the right who does not exist.
Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...
Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis
Detection of cancer before a clinical diagnosis could give patients and caregivers more time for intervention and may lead to better outcomes because tumors are more likely to be curable
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Iron deficiency and perimenopause. What you need to know so you are not running on empty! vajenda.substack.com
The Vajenda | Dr. Jen Gunter | Substack
Imagine a Venn diagram with overlapping circles labeled: Medical Facts, Feminism, and Fire. You've arrived at their intersection. Click to read The Vajenda, by Dr. Jen Gunter, a Substack publication w...
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eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
I wrote about DOGE's planned SSA "modernization" for MSNBC. "It’s like cooking a Thanksgiving turkey in 20 minutes by putting it in a blast furnace, or choosing to get measles instead of getting vaccinated against it: it sounds most convincing to the layperson who asks the fewest questions."
Opinion | DOGE’s new plan to overhaul the Social Security Administration is doomed to fail
Modernizing the SSA’s technical infrastructure is not a novel idea – and such modernizations have a poor track record.
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it's really important to understand what the US government -- our government -- is saying about their power to put any American in a concentration camp forever **by mistake**
National Security Counselors 🕵@nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2y agoRead this carefully. The DOJ's argument here is that if somebody grabs literally any person and tells a foreign govt to throw them in prison, there's nothing a court can do to get them back once they've been handed off. This isn't an Alien Enemies Act argument. It has fuck all to do with aliens.