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How does a blood donation become a transfusable blood product? A new resource I helped develop for Canadian Blood Services provides an extensive walkthrough on the process of blood processing and delivery--for medical and curious non-medical folks profedu.blood.ca/en/VirtualTour… #transfusion

Our correspondence with nature advocating that scholarly journals support direct link-sharing to bluesky amidst the exodus of many academic communities from X (formerly Twitter) Jeremy Jacobs, MD, MHS, FASCP Brian Adkins @DrGSBooth1 nature.com/articles/d4158…

Should we eliminate leukocyte reduction for whole blood? It's an intriguing concept with some (mainly logistical) benefits In AABB journal, my brilliant co-authors argue it's a bit premature, and removal of LR deserves deeper, empirical scrutiny onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr…

In this issue of NEJM Evidence Jeremy Jacobs, MD, MHS, FASCP and I interpret the recent individual-patient meta-analysis for RBC transfusion in myocardial infarction by Carson et al and make a case for nuanced interpretation Article: evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Proud to have worked at University Health Network Toronto General Hospital and rotated on Endocrinology here. Kudos to Canadian scientists and their continued breakthroughs in diabetes Daniel J Drucker Michael Fralick and many others working in this space

Suppression of alloreactive T cells in haplo-SCT by itacitinib. Haplo-SCT provides rapid and near universal donor availability, but comes with increased alloreactivity. ow.ly/PrxZ50Vq7QT #clinicaltrialsandobservations

Clinical guidelines do no good sitting on shelves In AABB journal, co-authors and I argue that guidelines should come with an intentional plan for real-world uptake. We leverage concepts from #ImplementationScience to outline a process for doing so onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr… #ebm

High-quality data is foundational to modern operational and academic work We propose CANDAT—Canadian Donations & Transfusion Database—linking health data to study collection, testing, distribution, and consequences of transfusion in Canada AABB journal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Management of iron deficiency in children, adults, and pregnant individuals: evidence-based and expert consensus recommendations - The Lancet Haematology thelancet.com/journals/lanha…

Proud to have contributed to OpenAI’s #Healthbench, alongside physicians from around the world. This was a unique opportunity to evaluate how AI performs on real health challenges and help shape how we measure progress. Learn more: openai.com/index/healthbe…

I’m incredibly proud to lead the physician team contributing to OpenAI’s #Healthbench and to have helped shape the framework for its design. Evaluating how AI performs on real health challenges is essential!

Is directed blood donation (donation earmarked for a specific recipient) ethically or medically justified? In Annals of Int Med, my co-authors argue that in the vast majority of clinical situations, the answer is no acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

Mixed Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia is a fascinating and challenging disease of blood breakdown via multiple immune pathways Our systematic review AmericanJournalofHematology summarizes what is currently known about features and outcomes of patients with this condition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…