Mathieu Ferron

@mathieuferron.bsky.social

Mathieu Ferron Lab @ircm.bsky.social. Prof @umontreal.ca, Montreal, Québec. Vitamin K, bone, beta cell, ER stress and diabetes. Conseiller scientifique du CRCQ.🔬Québécois. https://www.ircm.qc.ca/en/researchers/mathieu-ferron

As a vitamin K researcher, I found this very concerning. Newborns are at high risk of being vitamin K-deficient because vitamin K does not cross the placenta barrier well. This increases dramatically the risk of hemorrhages, because many coagulation factors require vitamin K to be activated.

Duaa Eldeib@deldeib.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

So many meritorious people could be nominated for the Order of Canada before even starting to think about naming the sexist, bigot, and racist Don Cherry. Why not nominate Marie-Philip Poulin instead? If Cherry gets it, it will be a disgrace for this Order and everyone who obtained it before.