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Academia has long relied on publication counts to measure productivity and confer status.
This was always deeply flawed.
AI makes this obvious.
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Congratulations to @venkmurthy on his appointment as one of eight new members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force! We're proud to see his expertise represented in this important role.
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Congratulations to Dr. @venkmurthy on his appointment to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
Murthy, a cardiologist and health innovation researcher at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center, is one of eight new members selected to serve on the task force.
Congrats to brilliant cardiologist @venkmurthy for this position ! Appreciated his insights on vaccine myocarditis during COVID when I was debating Mark Cuban ! :-)
Today, @SecKennedy announced reforms to strengthen one of the institutions charged with preventive care across America with eight new members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
"America faces a chronic disease crisis that medicine cannot solve through treatment alone. We must put prevention at the center of American health care..." - HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. 🇺🇸
Congratulations to Dr. @venkmurthy on his appointment to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
Murthy, a cardiologist and health innovation researcher at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center, is one of eight new members selected to serve on the task force.
My friend @venkmurthy was appointed today to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. In the @nytimes article getting into the decision, they link to a piece he wrote earlier this year for @iwfeatures (in replies):
Honored to serve the American people on the US Preventive Services Task Force
I am looking forward to advising @HHSGov on preventive health measures
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🫀🔬 "Seeing is believing"… but by how much?
9 RCTs of CAC/CTA-guided prevention:
Showing patients their plaque nudges statin/antiplatelet use up ~10 pp and trims LDL only by fractions of an mmol/L
Modest moves
And so far, no ⬇️ in hard CV events in RCTs
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1/ I have long dreamed of systems that could causally model human neurobiology across scales, from molecular to behavioral.
In @Nature, delighted to share our efforts at creating xenocortical mice where human organoids grow to occupy most of mouse cortex.
Transfer center call: Patient presented with E. coli bacteremia and was found to have a ureteral stent extending from her bladder through the IVC directly into her Right Atrium. What would you do?
ALT CT images showing double J stent passing from the bladder through the inferior vena cava into the right atrium of the heart. (A) Coronal view. (B) Sagittal view.
We need to be cautious. I am not advocating imaging for screening
Not am I advocating treating all miniscule plaque as the same
Has to be tailored for the patient
Primary prevention benefits are often very small, but in some rare cases large