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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 5h

Look at the numbers below - Even if violence has stops completely in Gaza - people, children and adults will die if there’s no immediate action to restore health care infrastructure & personnel.
This is urgent.

KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 10d

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Medical neutrality — the protection of hospitals, staff & patients in war — is enshrined in international law.
In Gaza, it has been ignored. The health system has been deliberately dismantled.
Yet in the U.S., most medical institutions remain silent www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Kerri Johannson MD MPH @kerrijohannson.bsky.social · 1d

For many adults, sex & sexual activity are important

Patients with PF are often limited by breathlessness, cough, fatigue, deconditioning, O2 use

Prior studies suggest that PF may impact sex & sexual function, but limited patient populations, generalizability and focused mostly on physical issues

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Kerri Johannson MD MPH @kerrijohannson.bsky.social · 1d

The Impact of Pulmonary Fibrosis on Sex and Sexual Function - A Multinational Mixed Methods Study

Just out in ERJ and led by Dr. Na'ama Avitzur
A 🧵👇
(key take-away 👉 sex matters to patients with PF and their disease impacts this)

#OpenAccess #CurePF #CureIPF
publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/...

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 1d

Midweek Lentil soup with potato kreplach & a bit of sambal
#DoctorsWhoCook

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 1d

Did we say before that we have good coffee in the office?
#WorkLifeBalance
#ThisIsYalePCCSM
#CorduroyDocs

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Apr 17

This post is very important, very clear thinking by Prof @kaminskimed.bsky.social

KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · Apr 17

My column in @haaretzcom is out!
The Trump Administration is not weaponizing antisemitism to suppress pro-Palestinian voices. They are weaponizing it to destroy academia.
And when they succeed, they will blame us, the Jews”
#Antisemitism
#NotInOurName

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Wait till the Jews are blamed for bringing down Harvard | Opinion

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www.haaretz.com

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · May 24

As an accomplished physician scientist and chief I consider it my duty to role model professionalism for early career peers and trainees - so here’s one example of multitasking that is good for you - drinking coffee on Saturday morning, while petting your cat.
#WorkLifeBalance
#Caturday

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · May 25

Straightforward old fashioned overcrowded oven roasted Chicken.
#PCCMEats
#MedFoodSky
#DoctorsWhoCook

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · May 25

Very smooth bean soup for the spouse returning from a long exercise grey Sunday morning.
#PCCMEats
#DoctorsWhoCook
#MedFoodSky

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 2d

First time I went on the treadmill for a Pittsburgh Steelers game this season. Markie joined but was too anxious to watch.
#SteelersNationCT
#herewegosteelers🖤💛🖤💛
#caturday

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 3d

The novel Three Body Problem (spoiler alert) is about an alien civilization that tries to destroy scientific advancement on Earth so they could take over. Just saying.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 4d

Pliny, making the case for changing her name from #PlinyTheYounger to #PlinyTheMagnificent
#Caturday

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 4d

A perfect lunch for a busy pre-storm Friday
#WorkLifeBalance

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday, the U.S. FDA approved Jascayd (nerandomilast) to treat IPF. This is the first IPF new therapy approved in more than a decade.
Congratulations to all our patients & yes, better drugs are on the way!!
Great day for the #CureIPF community!!
#ScienceMatters
www.fda.gov/drugs/news-e...

FDA approves drug to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

First new treatment in more than a decade for rare lung condition

www.fda.gov

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 10d

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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Lucilla Piccari @lucillapiccari.bsky.social · 7d

A week ago I took part in a symposium on the global challenge of #PulmonaryHyoertension where Dr @sandeepsahaymd.bsky.social spoke of epidemiology, Dr Kulkarni of diagnosis & treatment in LMIC, Dr @albertaphdoc.bsky.social of research & Nina Kobler of her perspective as a patient. 1/2
#ERSCongress

A stage at the European Respieatory Congress with a big screen behind it showing the first slide of my presentation "How do social inequality, environmental pollution and climate change affect patients with pulmonary hypertension?"

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 8d

Pliny’s new gesture to those allergic to cats - she’s on the aid purifier

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 8d

Markie is slowly becoming human
#caturday

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 9d

Medical neutrality — the protection of hospitals, staff & patients in war — is enshrined in international law.
In Gaza, it has been ignored 👇🏼

KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 10d

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Medical neutrality — the protection of hospitals, staff & patients in war — is enshrined in international law.
In Gaza, it has been ignored. The health system has been deliberately dismantled.
Yet in the U.S., most medical institutions remain silent www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 10d

Really cool! Inhibition of epithelial cell YAP-TEAD/LOX signaling attenuates pulmonary fibrosis in preclinical models. From the team of Darcy Wagner, Oliver Eickelberg & Melanie Königshoff
#ScienceMatters #CurePF
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Inhibition of epithelial cell YAP-TEAD/LOX signaling attenuates pulmonary fibrosis in preclinical models - Nature Communications

Extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling is a hallmark of fibrosis thought to be driven by mesenchymal cells. Here, the authors discover that YAP-TEAD/LOX axis is activated in distal lung epithelial cells, which contributes to ECM remodeling in pre-clinical models of pulmonary fibrosis.

www.nature.com

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 10d

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Grateful to the other authors:
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa (@ferozesidhwa.org)
Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha
Dr. Akiva Leibowitz
we all contributed equally.
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
The paper is dedicated to the amazing medical, surgical and nursing teams of Gaza, in solidarity and camaraderie.

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Lucilla Piccari @lucillapiccari.bsky.social · 10d

Please, read and share this very important 🧵

Thank you to these corageous colleagues for unflinchingly speaking up

I'm proud and honoured to call @kaminskimed.bsky.social my friend and I hope the medical community takes example from his and his co-authors words! 👇👇👇

KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 10d

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Finally! Our call on the U.S. medical community & establishment to break their silence on Gaza is out today at the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first publication describing Gaza's human made humanitarian catastrophe in the Journal!!
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Micha Sam Brickman Raredon @msbr89.bsky.social · 10d

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

www.nejm.org

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 12d

“Combination vaccines were developed to reduce missed opportunities, increase coverage and minimize the trauma of multiple injections … Undoing that progress would put children at risk."

*ps, my editorial note: they are also SAFE

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

Trump's call to split up the MMR childhood vaccine revives long-settled debate

President Trump's suggestion that the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice.

www.cbsnews.com

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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 10d

🙏🏼 this means a lot coming from you #PeopleILookUpTo

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