yeah, that's great...but I also have to take my levothyroxine on an empty stomach, and PPI's ideally as well I'll live with a ferritin of 22, it's the best I can do, and no, I don't need another colonoscopy or a capsule, nor am I going to start eating a lot more meat 22 is way better than 8

nina@artistninakoch.bsky.social · 3d ago

My experiment to raise my ferritin in two months was not only a huge success, but massively life-changing. The current “normal” range for #ferritin is failing women and the chronically ill. We need to make changes to diagnostic testing now. #medsky #hematology #labmedicine #chronicillness #spoonie

Just a small reminder of the scars our doctors and nurses carried every day wearing PPE 24/7. And those are only the visible ones. #Fauci

EMR vendors thinking this is license to enshittify further

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

via ABC News: $AAL

Nixon agrees

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.

Racing to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.

Please no. If someone did something egregious, ok to review and fine/suspend after the game, but during the game, it should be the ref's call without external tech. Part of sports is dealing with bad/missed calls. It's a human endeavor. Humans playing, humans officiating

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.

The WNBA will have a replay center similar to the NBA next season as the league continues to invest in officiating, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced at her state of the league press conference before the All-Star Game.

Marmite has that effect on me

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2w ago

what he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him

An AI “salesman”, or a man who sells AI?

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

From the perspective of a cynical AI investor, the question isn't, "Can AI do your job?" The question is, "Can an AI salesman convince your boss that an AI can do your job?" 23/

MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com quotes @brianrifkin.bsky.social et al on CKM guidelines/staging www.medscape.com/s/viewarticl... I do think CKM is a fake made up condition & the staging is a terrible idea Flozinate, glipinate - but shoving another disease and staging and guideline? Count me out!

Grumblings Over CKM Guideline Not Warranted, Experts Say

Experts push back against concerns of overmedicalization and confusing staging with the new AHA/ACC guideline on cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome.

medscape.com

I am going to have a stroke. www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...

2026 AHA/ACC/ADA/ASN Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Asso...

2026 multisociety guideline for cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome addressing CKM staging, PREVENT risk equations, obesity treatment, kidney disease prevention, and cardiovascular risk reduction...

jacc.org

#medsky

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w ago

Randolph Mantooth, who played the charismatic firefighter and paramedic John Gage on the 1970s television hit “Emergency!” and whose acting career spanned decades, died on Thursday. He was 80.

Mick Jagger been rode hard and put up wet

Are we bringing back NFT's? #cardiosky #medsky

As I’ve said for over twenty years: Myocardial perfusion imaging is a great test…once you know the anatomy CT is the (present and) future @bjcohenmd.bsky.social #cardiosky #medsky

David Winchester@drdavemd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Subanalysis from the ISCHEMIA trial, 25% of nuclear and 15% of echo read by the sites as moderate ischemia was none/mild read by the core lab www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10....

Coffee ride supposed to be a metric, ended up doing an imperial 100m then a 3 mile dog walk Oh, and wife did track 1K repeats coached by my daughter who was on a rest day so did an easy 4 @ 7:30 World cup and beer tonight This is only normal with serious selection bias, but it has been a great day

David W (aka Flex NP)@rnflex.bsky.social · last mo.

I ran with my dogs this morning for 5 miles while my wife and kids walked a mile. Then we had breakfast, avocado toast and fruit. Later we're going to swim and cook dinner on the Blackstone. Ya know. Normal ass stuff

Methinks a Strait of Hormuz beats a pair of Jokers

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

JD Vance claims US holds all the cards in Iran and will win ‘either way’

I'm sure I have thoughts and engagement, might learn something or contribute something, but.... since I don't have a subscription, I just consider this advertising Link the articles without a paywall if you're actually interesting in the advancement and dissemination of medical information

NEJM.org@nejm.org · last mo.

A 47-year-old man with heart failure with a reduced ejection fraction and an ICD for the primary prevention of sudden cardiac death presented with an unheralded syncopal event, which had been captured by video surveillance at work. Read the full case details: https://nej.md/4w1yfJM

An important read. Naive researchers are using TriNetX easy-to-use tools without realizing that their analyses of routinely collected data are meaningless, even claiming that nonexistent TriNetX tools fixed biases.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · last mo.

Critics say TriNetX’s easy analyses of electronic medical records fuel quick-and-dirty publications from inexperienced authors.

My daughter made kale pizza the other night, and my wife came home and saw it and immediately broke into tears (ok, there were other things going on too, and the pizza was actually excellent, but true story) #nokale

Sure ICD did it's thing, but maybe this isn't the best idea to continue playing? #cardiosky #medsky news.sky.com/story/danish...

Denmark footballer Christian Eriksen collapses on pitch

Footage showed the 34-year-old clutching his chest with both hands in the 65th minute of the game against Ukraine.

news.sky.com

Any radialist immediately made this diagnosis, and switched to left radial or femoral (and cursed under their breath...or slightly louder) #cardiosky

NEJM.org@nejm.org · 2mo ago

A 44-year-old man presented with a 4-year history of choking episodes while eating. Endoscopy revealed narrowing of the upper esophagus by a pulsating, cordlike structure in the posterior wall (shown in a video). Read the full case details: https://nej.md/4e5XSBZ

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

nytimes.com

Lael Wilcox has already cycled around the world in 108 days, faster than any other woman. Now she’s planning to do it faster than any human, in less than 80 days — she just has to sleep a little less.

The Fastest Woman to Circle the Earth on a Bike Is Aiming for the Men’s Record

Lael Wilcox will pedal around the world, and she hopes to do it in less than 80 days.

nyti.ms

I will say it again: You are not my “peer” if your whole job is using a non-evidence-based algorithm to deny necessary care to my patients. My actual peers are not in the service of bloodless ghouls.

Crazy happenings at the #ADA26 Cops show up, snatch papers and shove scientists out www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting

Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions

medpagetoday.com

My FTP went up 15 Watts when I got my ferritin from 8 to 30! (ok, this for sure isn't science, but still, 15 Watts!)

Shematologist, MD@shematologist.medsky.social · 2mo ago

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/

They're all coming out of the woodwork

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Sing when you’re winning: the 20 greatest songs about football – ranked!

Ain't no LLM write that

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2mo ago

IRGC statement:

Anyway spawning is happening right now, enjoy this video of river herring spawning in Horn Pond from yesterday

"I suppose nothing would ever give me as much delight as seeing the first patient change from blue to pink in the operating room... bright pink cheeks and bright lips."

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cardiologist Dr. Helen Taussig founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Co-developed the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt in 1944. This groundbreaking surgical procedure treated "blue baby syndrome" saving thousands of infants who previously had no treatment option. Born #OTD in 1898. #WomenInSTEM

Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.