Now, as ever, important to check motivations and incentives of those making extreme statements.

NEW: State health department announces new measles case in Maryland State agency alerts: "Anyone who visited the following location.. may have been exposed: Washington Dulles International Airport: The international arrivals area March 5th, 4pm-9pm"

We'll need a new NCI director. Social media has become a hustings for some hopefuls. Who has your "vote"?

If you're on the wrong train, get off

Taking from NIH research to create a new MAHA agency? wapo.st/42gLz0Z Summary: Proposal: $47B NIH budget split into $27B for NIH (now only 8 institutes, from 27) and $20B for a new "Administration for a Healthy America" (incl. primary care, childhood chronic disease).

This class of medicines (like "Wegovy" etc) is arguably the most important drug development for public health that I have seen in my lifetime (and I am an oncologist...). Now potentially available in a daily pill form.... [as always, Tweets are not medical advice]

Update. As we head into May - the article that was so “urgent” that was being asked to do it in days during end of year holiday season “to maintain tight publishing deadlines” has still not been published…

Today's session, moderated by Dr. Maria “Ken” Figueroa and Mikkael A. Sekeres MD, MS, offered insights into evolving classification and treatment. Dr. Rena Buckstein discussed predictors of patient-reported outcomes, followed by Dr. @NancyKGillis on the epidemiology of CHIP, ICUS, CCUS, and

Fantastic talk by ⁦Dan Landau Dan Landau⁩ on Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics. Even over a decade ago, when he was training at Yale, you can tell he was going to change the world! So good to see this manifest.

Current administration proposes 18 BILLION dollar cut (~40%) to NIH medical research for FY26 (closer to 45% if new budget 27B not 48.5B+inflation). National Science Foundation (U.S. National Science Foundation) cuts of ~56% proposed. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl….

Vibe

In over twelve years of public service as a federal physician I had to complete annual ethics trainings and couldn’t accept as much as a sandwich in case my impartiality could be questioned by even the appearance of conflict. I understood and agreed.

Travel grants still available for the best abstracts! Apply now. #leusm #bmtsm #tcellrx #AMLsm. .

NCI congressional justification released. $1.26 BILLION cut in research grants and a 15% indirect rate.

Graduation season! One group of "super-seniors" currently graduating are residency and fellowship trained doctors - who have done typically at least 7 (commonly 10 or more) years after college to become experts who may now practice independently. Sharing what I said recently:

The Ye Lab Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Children's National Hospital 🏥 in DC seeks a #postdoc to conduct work focused on understanding how glioma hijacks the tumor microenvironment to drive malignant progression. Virginia Tech provides excellent employment benefits. Apply by 7/21! careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…