John F Toney, MD
@johnftoney.bsky.social
Physician/scientist/educator/musician/photographer
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If you are preparing for IM Boards, check out my colleague Joe Lezama’s IM board review book. It’s helping a lot of the IM residents at USFMCOM. #MedSky www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3031...
Internal Medicine Learning A to Z and 1, 2, 3: A High Reliability Approach to Clinical Knowledge and Standardized Testing Success
Internal Medicine Learning A to Z and 1, 2, 3: A High Reliability Approach to Clinical Knowledge and Standardized Testing Success: 9783031575457: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com
www.amazon.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you are preparing for IM Boards, check out my colleague Joe Lezama’s IM board review book. It’s helping a lot of the IM residents at USFMCOM. #MedSky www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3031...
The Dark Ages of science is here. We must not let it go further.
NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts
Mandate has set off a scramble to find places to trim awards that support much of the biomedical agency’s work
www.science.org
April 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Dark Ages of science is here. We must not let it go further.
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Early Rx in Influenza is key!
While pts may not present to the hospital early after sx onset (median 3.6 days after sx onset), early empiric therapy for influenza is recommended by guidelines supported by a growing literature showing benefit but delays in therapy are common.
While pts may not present to the hospital early after sx onset (median 3.6 days after sx onset), early empiric therapy for influenza is recommended by guidelines supported by a growing literature showing benefit but delays in therapy are common.
March 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Early Rx in Influenza is key!
While pts may not present to the hospital early after sx onset (median 3.6 days after sx onset), early empiric therapy for influenza is recommended by guidelines supported by a growing literature showing benefit but delays in therapy are common.
While pts may not present to the hospital early after sx onset (median 3.6 days after sx onset), early empiric therapy for influenza is recommended by guidelines supported by a growing literature showing benefit but delays in therapy are common.
Diagnostic technology achieves near 100% accuracy in pathogen identification within three hours. Very cool tech!
Fast and accurate multi-bacterial identification using cleavable and FRET-based peptide nucleic acid probes
Fast and accurate identification of pathogenic microbes in patient samples is crucial for the timely treatment of acute infectious diseases such as se…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Diagnostic technology achieves near 100% accuracy in pathogen identification within three hours. Very cool tech!
Remember in the W administration grants with “sex, gender” were cut or scaled back in order to fund his abstinence only programs, which failed.
NIH terminates three Penn research grants, citing incompatibility with ‘agency priorities’
The termination letters, obtained by the DP, told the researchers that their awards were “incompatible with agency priorities, and no modification of the project could align the project with agency pr...
www.thedp.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Remember in the W administration grants with “sex, gender” were cut or scaled back in order to fund his abstinence only programs, which failed.
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They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.
Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.
Maybe Dept. of Tesla Efficiency (DOTE) should look into this.
Tesla is somehow missing $1.4 billion — Mashable
Where'd the money go?
stocks.apple.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Maybe Dept. of Tesla Efficiency (DOTE) should look into this.
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“At least in combat, I knew my mission. I was supported in it by my teammates, by my leadership, and I had agency. I had a weapon. I could fight against a tangible enemy. Now it’s just an invisible cloud of dread.”
The VA promised DOGE cuts won’t harm veterans. Employees say it’s already happening.
"To be seen or cast as this bad person after I served this country...feels really awful."
www.motherjones.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“At least in combat, I knew my mission. I was supported in it by my teammates, by my leadership, and I had agency. I had a weapon. I could fight against a tangible enemy. Now it’s just an invisible cloud of dread.”
Thank you Senator Whitehouse!
Sen. Whitehouse Outmaneuvers Witness’s Attempts to Dodge Questions on Project 2025
YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
youtu.be
March 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thank you Senator Whitehouse!
New MMWR report shows 13% of children reported to have died from flu this season so far had influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis (IAE), including 4 with influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy. tinyurl.com/mm7406a3
Reports of Encephalopathy Among Children ...
This report describes cases of influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis among children during 2010-11 through 2024-25 flu seasons.
tinyurl.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
New MMWR report shows 13% of children reported to have died from flu this season so far had influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis (IAE), including 4 with influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy. tinyurl.com/mm7406a3
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
theonion.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
The first measles death in 10 years - measles cases since 2000 have been low numbers except 2014 and 2019. This outbreak is not over and is spreading. Some families are not immunizing their children. Reality can be harsh.
February 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The first measles death in 10 years - measles cases since 2000 have been low numbers except 2014 and 2019. This outbreak is not over and is spreading. Some families are not immunizing their children. Reality can be harsh.
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$19,000,000,000,000.00
February 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
$19,000,000,000,000.00
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Call to Action: The Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent federal agency that safeguards federal employees in employment disputes, has paused the terminations of six probationary federal workers across various executive branch agencies and departments for 45 days.
February 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Call to Action: The Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent federal agency that safeguards federal employees in employment disputes, has paused the terminations of six probationary federal workers across various executive branch agencies and departments for 45 days.
Medical research is a target for anti-science. The loss of grant monies is a big first step backwards towards the new Dark Ages.
VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
prospect.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Medical research is a target for anti-science. The loss of grant monies is a big first step backwards towards the new Dark Ages.
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Mother Jones: 'NIH Is Again Throttling Research Funding in Defiance of a Federal Court Order'
'A freeze on “new and continuation awards” will “remain in place” pending DEI review, states a new internal memo'
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
'A freeze on “new and continuation awards” will “remain in place” pending DEI review, states a new internal memo'
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
NIH is again throttling research funding in defiance of a federal court order
A freeze on "new and continuation awards" will "remain in place" pending DEI review, states a new internal memo.
www.motherjones.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Mother Jones: 'NIH Is Again Throttling Research Funding in Defiance of a Federal Court Order'
'A freeze on “new and continuation awards” will “remain in place” pending DEI review, states a new internal memo'
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
'A freeze on “new and continuation awards” will “remain in place” pending DEI review, states a new internal memo'
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The laws don't apply to the president's friends in corrupt Russian-aligned authoritarian states
February 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The laws don't apply to the president's friends in corrupt Russian-aligned authoritarian states
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The President of the United States expressing his views on the 1st Amendment
February 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The President of the United States expressing his views on the 1st Amendment
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Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...
February 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...
It has started. This is what we will expect going forward in current times.
A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
www.nbcnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It has started. This is what we will expect going forward in current times.
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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
In 2023 RFK Jr. said “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said. “Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years”
at a conference for the country’s largest anti-vaccine organization, Children’s Health Defense.
at a conference for the country’s largest anti-vaccine organization, Children’s Health Defense.
February 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In 2023 RFK Jr. said “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said. “Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years”
at a conference for the country’s largest anti-vaccine organization, Children’s Health Defense.
at a conference for the country’s largest anti-vaccine organization, Children’s Health Defense.