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Rachel Putman
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ILD & ICU doctor, opinions are my own
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Finally in Print! The Official ATS Research Statement on Racial, Ethnic, Sex & Gender Equity for Inclusive Interstitial Lung Disease Research.
👏🏼 Drs Assayag, Adegonsoye, Cottin, Mageto & @atsblueeditor.bsky.social & @atscommunity.bsky.social
#CurePF4All
www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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“WTF happened to paylines???!!!" and other questions

New must-read straight talk by Josh Fessel MD PhD about current status of #NIH 🧪🧬🩺

substack.com/inbox/post/1...

(Please share, I think a lot of folks will benefit)
NIH Unified Funding Framework
"WTF happened to paylines???!!!" and other questions
substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Summers is still on the faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School and actively teaching undergraduate & graduate students
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Beautiful night to go outside
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.

Gift link:
Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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👀
September 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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In honor of Jimmy Kimmel get suspended in part for saying "And by ‘statistical fact’, [Vance] means ‘complete bullshit’,” in response to Vance's false claim that most political violence is from the left, here's the DOJ report showing the opposite, that the DOJ conveniently just memory-holed:
web.archive.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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We now have confirmation that RFK Jr. fired Dr. Monarez because she refused to alter the childhood vaccine schedule. These recommendations have kept our children safe, but RFK Jr. wants to change them without any evidence to support that decision.
September 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The Supreme Court just greenlit Donald Trump gutting nearly $800 MILLION for medical treatments and cures.

Congress approved this funding for a reason: it saves lives.

This is disgraceful, and families will suffer.
August 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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“.. Yikes – @EliseStefanik literally got booed off the stage TWICE at an event in her district today.

She hasn't hosted a #NY21 town hall in years. Now we know why.”

(via Addison Dick)
August 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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In case anyone is wondering, I will not mince words, I will not pull punches, and I will say what needs to be said.

Thanks for having me on @atourtable.bsky.social @jaimeharrison.bsky.social 🇺🇸
August 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The Blue Journal thanks Anna Podolanczuk, MD, MS, ATSF, for her contribution to the July issue

Approach to the Evaluation and Management of Interstitial Lung Abnormalities: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Statement

www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
July 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care.

It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors
Republican plans to cap student borrowing could shatter an everyday profession
One GOP senator said anyone paying more than $100K to go to med school is "making a huge mistake." But the median cost of attending one is more than double that for the class of 2025.
www.politico.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Just out in @atsblueeditor.bsky.social from 🇨🇦 CARE-PF🫁

Did you ever wonder what a "typical for fibrotic HP" HRCT pattern really means? We aimed to find out ... 🧐

www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
June 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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No deaths have been linked to the salmonella outbreak so far, but 79 people in seven states have gotten sick. That number includes 21 who were hospitalized.
www.upi.com/Health_News/...
Eggs recalled in salmonella outbreak after 79 people fall ill - UPI.com
A California egg producer is recalling around 1.7 million eggs sold in retail stores in nine states because of salmonella concerns, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed.
www.upi.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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He's right. "Nothing short of devastating"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice sent letters to scholarly journals inquiring about their process and principles. As an organization, we respect and support the CHEST journal's editorial leadership and long-standing reputation. Read more here: www.chestnet.org/newsroom/che...
April 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted?

Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky

scienceimpacts.org
SCiMaP
scienceimpacts.org
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This story is terrible and absolutely worth reading
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM