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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

What Trump is doing is not reform, it is subversion.. The disruptions are already cascading through academia. Medical school have paused hiring; labs are considering when they'll have to let employees go; universities are curtailing Ph.D. programs.. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker

Stanford’s Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology is recruiting a Division Chief! Join us in leading cutting-edge research, clinical excellence, and fellowship training! Help us share and spread the wrod!

#CGH4ALL 📣 🩺 NSBBs reduce first decompensation risk in cirrhosis w/ enduring CSPH 💥 Significant impact even in small GEVs and hepatitis C-cured patients! 👇 Read the full study from CGH 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.… Reported by Ariana Pereira Laura Turco Alessio Gerussi

1⃣Is MASLD associated with non-liver related mortality? 2⃣Is it *independently* associated with non-liver related mortality after adjusting for cardiometabolic factors? 3⃣Does MASLD *CAUSE* excess non-liver-related mortality? See Journal of Hepatology : authors.elsevier.com/a/1l6X6cOnAYPVk

🧬New 📋 Veeral Ajmera Journal of Hepatology: In MASLD, inherited genetic risk drives age-associated fibrosis. ⬆️ LSMs after 40y in high-risk genotypes 🧪 PNPLA3 genotyping may improve risk stratification 📈 Supports personalized medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep… Rohit Loomba UCSD Gastroenterology

Today in 1965, Dr. Michael DeBakey is featured on the cover of Time Magazine. @Time

Thrilled to announce the release of the new American Diabetes Association - DiabetesPro Consensus Statement: #MASLD is now recognized as a major metabolic complication in type 2 diabetes and obesity, underscoring the central role of insulin resistance and cardiometabolic risk factors in its pathogenesis.

If AFP level was 1-3 the last few times it was measured, & then "jumps" to 9, this should be a *POSITIVE* screening test for HCC (even if 9 is not above threshold): 👉Serial AFPs improve HCC screening sensitivity compared to fixed threshold journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

🙏🙏Norah Terrault🙏🙏 For best HBV lecture: 1️⃣Functional Cure= Loss of HBsAg 2️⃣Loss of HBsAg means loss of “integrants” (HBV integrated in human genome) 3️⃣Robust pipeline of drugs for functional cure ➡️ Bepirovirsen first

I ran a workshop today —“Is Medicine a Spiritual Practice?” We read this piece. “Illness is a spiritual event. Illness grasps persons by the soul and by the body & disturbs them both. Illness raises questions about meaning, value & relationship. These are spiritual questions.”

Pickle juice for muscle cramps is back in the news because of Carlos Alcaraz winning Roland Garros For anyone interested in knowing why this works and the evidence for it, you can find it in these articles Review: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10… Clinical trial: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

✅ out this month’s issue‼️ Learn about:  📑 Role of muscle in MASLD❓ 📑 Optimal AFP cut-off in HCC screening in cured HCV?❓ 📑 Min meaningful diff in PROs in cirrhosis❓ 📑 How well are we treating itch in PSC❓ 📑 How best to 🔍 fibrosis in MetALD❓ journals.lww.com/hepcomm/pages/…

The AASLD is in good hands!

📢Our new Impact Factor is 33.0🎉 🥇Ranking number 1 in the Hepatology field once again! 👏Thanks to the Editorial Team, untiring peer reviewers & very innovative authors❕ EASLnews EASL Education #LiverTwitter

Brian Haynes, PJ Devereux and I present the rationale behind the third key principle of #EBM: evidence alone never is sufficient for decisions, #patient values and preferences always crucial. Or as this #BMJ article put it, evidence doesn’t make decisions, people do.

Ειλικρινή συλλυπητήρια στον George Ioannou , Constantinos Ioannou και σε όλη την οικογένεια, για τη μεγάλη τους απώλεια. Μετά την εκδημία των ανδρών επιφανών, όπως ήταν ο μ. Ιατρός Νίκος Γ. Ιωάννου, μένει η αγαθή μνήμη, το έργο και η προσφορά προς την πατρίδα. Με μια λέξη, μένει η υστεροφημία.

Ciao Jaume, goodbye cariño mio. You have been such a special and wonderful man and I will love you forever.

Use Fibroscan liver stiffness + platelet count to document: ➡Clinically Significant Portal Hypertension (CSPH) ➡compensated Advanced Chronic Liver Disease (cACLD) Our Hepatology📰 shows the categories & rationale & argues for category of "critical" CSPH journals.lww.com/hep/fulltext/2…

Agree. True in medicine too. Notes are cognitive. If it's not then you're doing it wrong. Also why metrics that study EHR time as a waste are misguided. This too often includes cognitive time. Unless we dont want doctors to think and just do