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Krishna Komanduri

@drkomanduri.bsky.social
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Physician in Chief @UCSFCancer; Chief Hem/Onc @UCSFHealth; @ASTCT Past-President. Father of four, husband, shutterbug, aspiring pizzaiolo. Views here mine only.

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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Is this like being mildly pregnant?
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Nice to hear some good @fda.gov news today. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
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F.D.A. Names Agency Veteran to Run Drug Division
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Does he understand how health insurance works? Serious question.
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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
A great way to stand up to cancer is voting in politicians who will fund scientific research.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A view of the (now razed) Jacqueline Kennedy Rose Garden from the #EastWing from my visit to the #WhiteHouse in January, 2025.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Posting this picture from my January trip to the beautiful and historic East Wing of the White House for no particular reason today.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is an obvious example of why honest public health data are needed and how data-driven health policy changes can have a real impact on outcomes. #allergies #publichealth #peanuts www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
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Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The two latest additions to the @ucsfhealth.bsky.social inpatient ecosystems now have new names: UCSF Health Stanyan and UCSF Health Hyde Hospitals. And both will play a big part of our expansion to best meet the needs of residents of San Francisco and beyond. www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...
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UCSF Health Marks New Chapter in Strengthening Community Hospitals
UCSF Health is advancing a new chapter in its commitment to San Francisco by strengthening two long-standing community hospitals through targeted investments in facilities, technology, and operations ...
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 15/10/2025
NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population. Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient. Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe And so much more important work. But they’re destroying it all.
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Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020
This study examines prevalence of iron deficiency among females aged 12 to 21 years to inform future screening strategies for iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
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CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I asked ChatGPT to draw me a map showing where Columbus actually landed and glad my historical gaps are all cleared up now.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds. FFS
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Good for my alma mater. apple.news/Aa2I29qo-SVq...
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MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling — Reuters
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
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Signor Rumore @rrrumore.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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UCSF Health @ucsfhealth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
👏 The rankings are in! We’re proud to be among the nation’s #BestHospitals — and the No. 1 hospital in California and San Francisco, according to @usnews.com! 🎉
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UCSF Health Ranks Among Nation's Best for 2025-26
U.S. News & World Report ranked UCSF No. 1 in CA & Top 20 in the nation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2025
There’s a deli in south Minneapolis that’s North Stars themed (complete with showing old games) 35 years after the team relocated to Dallas. Pretty badass.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Make America Salmonella Again.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This work and that of Edward Chang at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social is staggering in its implications of how we understand speech generation and wiil map its output in individuals unable to form words. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... What a world this is and why we need #SCIENCENOW for a better tomorrow.
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Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses
Inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and can be decoded in real time to restore communication to people with paralysis. Unintentional decoding of private inner speech can be preven...
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Quite surprised to learn that cytomegalovirus was this into football.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I hope it wasn’t sentient so they don’t send the ships from the home planet tomorrow.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Innumerate
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Not a surprise to anyone with a basic understanding of economics and trade.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
One thing I’ve learned in leadership is regardless of position about where strategy should go, decisions should be based on transparent, reliable data. This is deeply disturbing. And Orwellian.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Interestingly, the Board *does have control. Powell only gets one vote See also: not understanding how the economy works
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Miguel Perales MD @drmiguelperales.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...
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Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
😕
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
What a great, great farewell note
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Someone needs to name a punk band “Roving Patrol.”
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
😂 #AI
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
As an MIT I alum I have to agree.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Gut the NIH but gold leaf the ceilings.
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AMA @ama-assn.org · 03/07/2025
It's a sad & harmful day for patients & health care across the U.S., & its impact will reverberate for years. This bill moves us in the wrong direction. It will make it harder to access care & make patients sicker because the lifelines of Medicaid & CHIP are severed. spr.ly/633284mR2n
AMA: Congress moves health care in wrong direction
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 03/07/2025
The evil that men do lives after them
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.
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STAT @statnews.com · 29/06/2025
Senate GOP version of the tax bill would strip 11.8 million people of health insurance over the next decade, CBO estimated. www.statnews.com/2025/06/28/s...
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Senate GOP tweaks health care measures in tax bill to win holdouts, please parliamentarian
Late Friday, Senate GOP unveiled changes to health care policies in tax legislation in a bid to win over Republican holdouts and pass muster with budget rules.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 27/06/2025
RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know
The nameplates of Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, Newsweek, and Esquire.
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Steven Pergam, MD, MPH @pergamic.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Important read from all 17 highly qualified ACIP members who recently dismissed - read and share widely jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads
In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy, includin...
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Mikkael Sekeres @mikkaelsekeres.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
news.abbvie.com/2025-06-16-A... Wow — top line VERONA results are negative — no advantage to AZA + VEN compared to AZA alone for higher-risk #MDSsm. AZA or DAC alone remain the standard for HR-MDS. So disappointing😢 🎗️🩸
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AbbVie Provides Update on VERONA Trial for Newly Diagnosed Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) announced the global Phase 3 VERONA trial evaluating venetoclax in combination with azacitidine in the treatment of newly diagnosed higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome...
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I heard this morning that my informatics colleague Dr. Atul Butte passed after a battle with cancer. He was a giant in the field & inspired many of us over his distinguished career. He was a passionate champion of the power of big data & his impact on our field is immeasurable. RIP Atul & thanks.
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euanashley @euanashley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Atul Butte died yesterday. The world lost a giant. A big bear of a man. With a huge smile. With love for everyone. With energy that could power a room. I loved everything about Atul. I loved how he was always happy. I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 14/06/2025
For those of you who may not have known him, Dr. Atul Butte, a pioneer in informatics, was the winner of the 2024 Morris F. Collen award, a pinnacle achievement in our field, as part of his storied career. His passing is a major loss to us all. RIP Dr. Butte #MedSky
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2024 Morris F. Collen Award Winner - Atul Butte, MD, PhD, FACMI
This is "2024 Morris F. Collen Award Winner - Atul Butte, MD, PhD, FACMI" by AMIA on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Magnificent. The Greatest Sports Photo Ever Made Turns 60. #Photography www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/a...
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The Greatest Sports Photo Ever Made Turns 60
When Muhammad Ali knocked down Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965, a 22-year-old photographer named Neil Leifer was ringside. Decades later, the image he captured still has our attention.
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Beautifully articulated concerns about the US medical research enterprise by Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. The buck stops with the NIH Director and he agrees with that. How can we live with a budget that promised deep and devastating cuts to #cancer research? #ResearchSavesLives #NIH #NCI
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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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STAT @statnews.com · 07/06/2025
President Trump’s 2026 budget proposes slashing the NIH’s central function, supporting research by awarding grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions, by 43% compared to 2025 levels. www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n...
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NIH details how Trump budget would cut support for grants, training, and research centers
President Trump's 2026 budget proposes cutting NIH grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions by 43%
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
RIP Jim Marshall, one of the legendary Purple People Eaters and one of the most durable and toughest NFL players in history. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s... #Vikings #Defense #NFL #SKOL
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