Eric Thompson, Ph.D.

@azbiomarkers.bsky.social

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Precision medicine translational pharmacologist and cancer biologist, utilizing evidence based medicine to move biomarkers into the clinic.

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Yeah, so maybe don't move to Arizona where you need to know the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

15 years ago I thought this was a commercial, not a PSA. How wrong I was!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=cT31...

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The World Health Organization is proving basic health information through a human-like AI avatar. But while the bot responds sympathetically to users’ facial expressions, it doesn’t always know what it’s talking about

WHO’s New AI-Powered Chatbot Is Giving Wrong Medical Answerswww.bloomberg.com The World Health Organization is wading into the world of AI to provide basic health information through a human-like avatar. But while the bot responds sympathetically to users’ facial expressions, i...

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The importance of ventilation and air quality in schools: Covid spread in a school correlated with time of room CO2 concentration >1000 ppm, decrease of Covid with MERV-13 filters journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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A strong case for mandating indoor air quality in public buildings science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This could be remarkable if it holds up in human studies. www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

Interactions with dogs can increase brainwaves associated with stress relief and heightened concentration www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Covid vaccination markedly reduced blood clots, heart attacks, heart failure, stroke and other adverse cardiovascular outcomes, as seen from over 20 million people, about half of whom were vaccinated heart.bmj.com/content/earl...

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We don't talk about this enough. I remember a late night experiment in grad school, watching numbers on a luminometer go up & my heart started racing. You know that satisfying feeling when you finish a puzzle? What if you were the first person EVER to finish it? That's the high I keep chasing.

This feeling doesn't come along very often in one's career - but when it does... it's awesome! #sciart #scicomm

Interesting data on time toxicity in cancer treatment. academic.oup.com/oncolo/advan... Consuming Patients’ Days: Time Spent on Ambulatory Appointments by People With Cancer Accounting for opportunity time costs … these results highlight the substantial time burdens of cancer care…

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Boss: "Are you being productive in the lab?" Me: "Yes, I've already finished my third thermogenic extraction on botanical alkaloids using water as a mobile phase. Might need to do a fourth."

copied from: Laura J. Tafe, MD @LJTafeMD I collected these tissue hearts once upon a time. (green is negative image) Molecular, thoracic and GYN Pathologist. Artist. @AMPath past-President.

from AMP: Association for Molecular Pathology @AMPath Roses are Red Patients deserve information About molecular testing For the #publichealth of our nation. outreach.amp.org #HealthPolicyValentine #AMPAdvocates

Children’s Oncology Group guidelines on fatigue management have been released. childrensoncologygroup.org/docs/default...

Interesting post by Dr. Winter. twitter.com/mrs__peel/st... N in trial too small to be statistically meaningful, but anecdotally efficacious. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23925396/

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Important discovery related to LongCovid: Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 virus can reassemble into "zombie" complexes (XenoAMP-dsDNA) and induce a major and sustained immune response, affecting healthy, uninfected cells, not seen with common cold coronaviruses www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mol Diagnostics @JMDiagn #ArticleinPress: Next-generation sequencing trends among adult patients with select advanced tumor types: A real-world evidence evaluation. Authors from @VCU and @Bayer. www.jmdjournal.org/article/S152...

Propagating Dr. Marhara’s hard work. I’ve not checked against cited sources, but at first glance this is excellent.

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The impact of Long Covid on healthcare resources, utilization, and costs among ~53,000 diagnosed individuals cf ~265,000 matched controls medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

"What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day." hbr.org/2011/05/the-...

Correlation vs. causation? Hmmm... www.bmj.com/content/383/... Conclusions A new Doctor Who episode shown every festive period, especially on Christmas Day, was associated with reduced mortality rates in England, Wales, and the UK,

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Always limit your global variable changes.

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A single-dose Covid nasal vaccine spray vaccine provided protection vs symptomatic Omicron infections Among ~1,400 healthcare workers without prior Covid. Not randomized. Best effectiveness data shown in 2 graphs below www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

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A randomized, double-blind. placebo-controlled trial of modulating the gut microbiome is successful for symptom alleviation in Long Covid www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Interesting data on the value of surgery for BRCA1+ breast cancer patients.

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Prevalence of cardiac manifestations of #LongCovid from a meta-analysis of 150 reports with partitioning quality bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

ASCO Members Weigh in on ABIM’s Maintenance of Certification Program connection.asco.org/magazine/asc... The majority of ASCO survey respondents believe accredited CME is sufficient for learning and does not need to be supplemented with MOC (82%).

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In case you thought the background science and path for development of GLP-1 drugs to tackle obesity was quick and easy! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Interesting perspective: www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/pb-assets/He...