Matt Decker
@mndecker.bsky.social
UCSF Peds Heme/Onc PGY6. Columbia MD/PhD '20. Leukemia biology and targeted therapy development. Minnesota sports fan, unfortunately. Opinions my own, etc.
Vaccination efficacy and safety studies have some of the most robust and reproducible findings in all of medicine. It makes us oncologists look bad, honestly.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Vaccination efficacy and safety studies have some of the most robust and reproducible findings in all of medicine. It makes us oncologists look bad, honestly.
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If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart
My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...
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February 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding.
Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)
(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)
(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
February 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding.
Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)
(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)
(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
Reposted by Matt Decker
Uh, this is a nuclear bomb on university budgets if I am reading it correctly. Mandating an indirect cost rate of 15% *overnight*?
February 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Uh, this is a nuclear bomb on university budgets if I am reading it correctly. Mandating an indirect cost rate of 15% *overnight*?