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Kara Melmed
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"Come...dry your eyes. For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes... and let's go home." -AM
Bring Kilmar Home.
April 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Good to be back at #aan2025 #codeich #timeisbrain
April 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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What we’re talking about a#ISC2525, the world’s premier meeting on brain health and stroke science 🧠.
February 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...
February 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk"

To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky
How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.
jamanetwork.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Thank you to the anonymous data hero who archived critical public health data sets before they were removed/altered from the public. Medical researchers, public health professionals and scientists rely on data. Share widely #medsky #pubhealthsky

archive.org/details/2025...
CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
archive.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC

This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now

#MedSky

www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
ACOG Endorsed
The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.
www.acog.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Back in LA… surreal to be here so soon after the devastating fires. Heartbroken for our future. But there are thousands of students rallying for immigrant rights. Feels like yesterday I was marching with my daughters in 2016. To those students, I see you. Our future is brighter in your hands.
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM