Alex Limkakeng
limkakeng.bsky.social
Alex Limkakeng
@limkakeng.bsky.social
Glass Half Full Professor of EM
VC Clinical Research @dukeemergency
🚑, ♥️, 🧬 research; from yinz to y'all, posts=like, just my opinion, man.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The Shocking Crash That Led One County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
The Shocking Crash That Led One County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes
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November 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
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November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Reposted by Alex Limkakeng
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

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November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Alex Limkakeng
These are the images that define a generation.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Alex Limkakeng
Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for.

@wsj.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Robert H. Bartlett, Father of Innovative Life-Support System, Dies at 86 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
Robert H. Bartlett, Father of Innovative Life-Support System, Dies at 86
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November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
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November 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Trump’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Party Did Not Accept SNAP www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Party Did Not Accept SNAP
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November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Congratulations Catherine Staton et al. on Effectiveness of a brief intervention and text-based booster in the emergency department to reduce harmful and hazardous alcohol use: A pragmatic randomized adaptive clinical trial in Moshi, Tanzania @plos.org PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Effectiveness of a brief intervention and text-based booster in the emergency department to reduce harmful and hazardous alcohol use: A pragmatic randomized adaptive clinical trial in Moshi, Tanzania
In an adaptive clinical trial in Tanzania, Catherine A. Staton and her colleagues investigate whether a culturally adapted brief intervention with text-based boosters, called Punguza Pombe Kwa Afya Ya...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
FDA’s top drug regulator resigns after federal officials probe ‘serious concerns’ about his conduct

apnews.com/article/geor...
FDA’s top drug regulator resigns after federal officials probe ‘serious concerns’ about his conduct
The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday amid concerns about his personal conduct. A federal spokesperson said Dr.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by Alex Limkakeng
New BMJ Research: Intracoronary infusion of stem cells within 3-7 days after acute myocardial infarction reduced the incidence of heart failure and its related hospital admission, finds clinical trial.

Includes a visual abstract summarising the study
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Reposted by Alex Limkakeng
Exclusive: Most of the government editorial staff at Preventing Chronic Disease, an academic journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than 2 decades, have been told they’re being terminated, leaving the publication’s future uncertain. https://scim.ag/3LAtvJ6
Exclusive: Future of chronic disease journal in limbo after cuts at CDC
Researchers dismayed by the targeting of Preventing Chronic Disease’s editorial staff
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October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Reposted by Alex Limkakeng
Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease"

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Reposted by Alex Limkakeng
It was never “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” It was also a clear warning of what was to come.
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Doctor Who Hates Medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...
Opinion | The Doctor Who Hates Medicine
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October 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM