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Eric Topol
@erictopol.bsky.social
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physician-scientist, author, editor

https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666

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Eric Jeffrey Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine and Executive Vice-President at Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. .. more

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · May 27
A new cover for SUPER AGERS after making the NYT bestseller list. Thanks to you for making it the #1 ranked new non-fiction book on Amazon.
amazon.com/gp/new-relea...

Reposted by Philippe Froguel

Reposted by Steffanie A. Strathdee

Reposted by Eric J. Topol

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Brian Casey @brian-casey.bsky.social · 1d
Great post by @erictopol.bsky.social on the imperative to start using mammography AI, asking the question, if not now, then when?

erictopol.substack.com/p/why-all-ma...

#mammoAI #radiology #RadSky
Why All Mammograms Should Incorporate A.I.
A very impressive body of evidence has accumulated
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d
A nasal Covid booster vaccine that achieves mucosal immunity to block infection. Lessons from China that the US fails to act on
insight.jci.org/articles/vie...

Reposted by Eric J. Topol

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d
can induce....(not induce)

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d
Coviretinopathy. How Covid induce retinal damage and vessel leakage and that a drug can block it
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d
As anticipated, now it's happening
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent
Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.
www.nature.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d
✓ More accurate cancer detection
✓ Prevent cancer
✓ No increase in false positives
✓ Reduced workload
✓ Identify high-risk for heart disease
Proof from the largest randomized trial of medical AI + related studies. But will the practice of medicine change?
erictopol.substack.com/p/why-all-ma...
Why All Mammograms Should Incorporate A.I.
A very impressive body of evidence has accumulated
erictopol.substack.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d
choroid plexus, not chord. When will we be able to edit @bsky.app?

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d
Changes in the brain chord plexus and blood flow in #LongCovid "are associated with AD-related cognitive decline and increased plasma biomarkers."
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d
First proof-of-concept for engineered T cells as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d
It's not a threat. It is a change.
nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3d
Obesity is a major risk factor for severe infections across many types of pathogens for requiring hospitalization and/or fatal outcomes.
Data from 540,000 people.
@thelancet.com

thelancet.com/journals/lan...
(left-hospitalizations top, death bottom; right-pathogens)

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3d
"The term [provider] should not be used to describe physicians, nor should physicians use it to describe themselves, their team members, or their trainees."
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Physicians Are Not Providers: The Ethical Significance of Names in Health Care: A Policy Paper From the American College of Physicians | Annals of Internal Medicine
More than 25 years ago, Pellegrino and Relman noted the increasing commercialization of the learned professions, anticipating what many physicians are increasingly experiencing today: an impairment of...
www.acpjournals.org