Exciting announcement: Mary Cushman has been elected as ISTH President for the 2028–2030 term.
💬 “I look forward to collaboratively advancing the ISTH’s mission globally and ensuring scientific advances reach patients” said Cushman
🩸 Cryopreserved platelets did not meet noninferiority versus RTP. But given the shelf life of 2 years versus 7 days, is there room for CSP as a contingency component? #hemesky #platelets
#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #immunosky #publichealth Studies have shown that elderly individuals who have recovered from #COVID have a significantly higher and longer-lasting rate of #apoptosis (programmed cell death) in their #peripheralbloodmononuclearcells (PBMCs) vs to age-matched controls.
In honor of Blood's 80th Anniversary, Editor in Chief Dr. Andrew Roberts reflects on eight decades of hematology research and looks to the future of the journal.
Read Dr. Roberts' editorial here: ashpublications.org/blood/articl...
The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends
Rotavirus
Hepatitis A & B
Meningitis
Influenza
RSV
I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis.
We all are going to be caring for a lot more now.
In our already overflowing hospitals
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
More than 60% of Australian medical researchers left active research roles between 2019 & 2024 because they could not make ends meet - while my costings from the PBO suggest the govt could more than double annual spending from the MRFF without any effect on its base level of funding.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Highly recommended and should be read by all (future) group leaders! Thanks for sharing your personal struggles also
@jenheemstra.bsky.social 🧪
International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
