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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 16h

Just terrible

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Whitney Zahnd @whitneyzahnd.bsky.social · 16h

NHANES gave the first clear evidence that too many Americans had too much lead in their blood leading to unleaded gasoline requirements, and its data are part of children's growth charts ubiquitous in pediatricians' offices.

Make Our Children Healthy Again??

www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/...

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 16h

This is not great!

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 16h

NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population.

Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.

Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

And so much more important work.

But they’re destroying it all.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 16h

I routinely rely on work from NHANES when framing hearing loss issues and discuss trends.

Trends in prevalence of hearing loss in adults in the USA 1999–2018: a cross-sectional study

A better understanding of how the prevalence of hearing loss and its associated factors change over time could help in developing an appropriate program to prevent the development of hearing loss. Pop...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 16h

The. FUCK.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20h

NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more.

The entire operation has been eliminated.

Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone across biomedicine should be very loud about this so this team's RIF status gets reversed. Nhanes has been key for tracking obesity & diabetes rates, identifying high blood lead levels in kids in the 70s, tracking progress on cholesterol lowering, guiding nutrient fortification programs etc

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine this wasn't easy on your Phyllis Schlafly episode

Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 2d

Can we be a little less weird about the life choices women make? Especially post-Dobbs?

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 3d

“My ability to perform lifesaving surgery, my community, my family and all my other aspirations — seem to count for little when I answer ‘no’ to having kids.”

I’m A Surgeon. I’m Also Child-Free — And 6 Words From A Colleague About My Life Left Me Stunned.

“My ability to perform lifesaving surgery, my community, my family and all my other aspirations — seem to count for little when I answer ‘no’ to having kids.”

www.huffpost.com

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 3d

Some of this is nuts and bolts: how will this impact my projects and those of my friends'?

Taking funding from CDMPR would really be something. "Congressionally Directed" is literally in the name.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 3d

$8b is a lot of research.

Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 3d

I would also like to know about the r&d funds. Which projects are they? When will the PIs find out? Will those funds shift back when the government opens, or are those projects now dead?

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 3d

I'd like to know when the PIs will find out

To scrounge up enough money to pay the troops, the Pentagon is tapping into its research and development accounts to use funding Congress made available for two years, according to an OMB official. Specifically, about $8 billion is being shifted from accounts that fund military research, development, testing and evaluation efforts, according to two people familiar with the plan who were granted anonymity to discuss its details.

Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 3d

The last time the US Army went without pay was 1877. South-controlled Congress didn't want the President to use troops to continue Reconstruction.

www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/1877...

1877: The Year the Army Wasn't Paid

6th Regiment of the Maryland National Guard opening fire on an armed mob of railroad strikers during the Great Railway Strike of 1877. The Regular Army was often called upon to quell labor unrest duri...

www.historynewsnetwork.org

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 3d

Wait--wasn't that the last time the Army wasn't paid??

www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/1877...

Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 6d

Sure, they have stellar letters of rec and came from a top school. But I don't know. If they can't fold envelopes at high speed, they don't have a place in our program.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 6d

Who among us hasn't folded envelopes at high speed?

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 7d

You can tell because of the way it is

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 7d

Ear, nose, throat

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 8d

I miss dorothy wickenden. The political scene is only worth listening to now when tyler foggatt hosts.

Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 8d

To be FAIR:

Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 10d

You have to respect the h[ater]-index

Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 9d

Album cover material

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 10d

You have to respect the h[ater]-index

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 11d

Teaching labs like mine rely on institutions to de-identify and ethically obtain specimens.

I'm frustrated and angry that the unethical, profitable practice of using unwilling donors remains legal in places.

It needs to end.

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 11d

Victor Honey is a name that will stay with me a very long time. He was a homeless Army veteran, and he made his interests clear when he was alive. His family wasn't contacted when he died, and parts of his body were sent to teaching labs.

We were horrified to find a specimen of his in our lab.

As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones

The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It suspended the program after NBC News exposed failures to treat the dead and the...

www.nbcnews.com

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Isaac Erbele, MD @isaacerbele.bsky.social · 11d

Using unclaimed bodies, like USC did here, is wholly inappropriate.

It's accepted and legal in many jurisdictions, because it saves on burial costs and is profitable to hospitals. But the individuals are unwilling participants in this, and the practice disproportionately burdens the poor/homeless.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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