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John F Toney, MD

@johnftoney.bsky.social
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Anthony Cannella, MD, MSc, FACP, FIDSA @apcmd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If you are preparing for IM Boards, check out my colleague Joe Lezama’s IM board review book. It’s helping a lot of the IM residents at USFMCOM. #MedSky www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/3031...
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Internal Medicine Learning A to Z and 1, 2, 3: A High Reliability Approach to Clinical Knowledge and Standardized Testing Success
Internal Medicine Learning A to Z and 1, 2, 3: A High Reliability Approach to Clinical Knowledge and Standardized Testing Success: 9783031575457: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The Dark Ages of science is here. We must not let it go further.
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NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts
Mandate has set off a scramble to find places to trim awards that support much of the biomedical agency’s work
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Michael G. Ison, MD MS @michaelisonmd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Early Rx in Influenza is key! While pts may not present to the hospital early after sx onset (median 3.6 days after sx onset), early empiric therapy for influenza is recommended by guidelines supported by a growing literature showing benefit but delays in therapy are common.
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Diagnostic technology achieves near 100% accuracy in pathogen identification within three hours. Very cool tech!
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Fast and accurate multi-bacterial identification using cleavable and FRET-based peptide nucleic acid probes
Fast and accurate identification of pathogenic microbes in patient samples is crucial for the timely treatment of acute infectious diseases such as se…
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Remember in the W administration grants with “sex, gender” were cut or scaled back in order to fund his abstinence only programs, which failed.
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NIH terminates three Penn research grants, citing incompatibility with ‘agency priorities’
The termination letters, obtained by the DP, told the researchers that their awards were “incompatible with agency priorities, and no modification of the project could align the project with agency pr...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.
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Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Maybe Dept. of Tesla Efficiency (DOTE) should look into this.
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Tesla is somehow missing $1.4 billion — Mashable
Where'd the money go?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/03/2025
“At least in combat, I knew my mission. I was supported in it by my teammates, by my leadership, and I had agency. I had a weapon. I could fight against a tangible enemy. Now it’s just an invisible cloud of dread.”
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The VA promised DOGE cuts won’t harm veterans. Employees say it’s already happening.
"To be seen or cast as this bad person after I served this country...feels really awful."
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'
Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thank you Senator Whitehouse!
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Sen. Whitehouse Outmaneuvers Witness’s Attempts to Dodge Questions on Project 2025
YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New MMWR report shows 13% of children reported to have died from flu this season so far had influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis (IAE), including 4 with influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy. tinyurl.com/mm7406a3
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Reports of Encephalopathy Among Children ...
This report describes cases of influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis among children during 2010-11 through 2024-25 flu seasons.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/02/2025
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
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RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to mak...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The first measles death in 10 years - measles cases since 2000 have been low numbers except 2014 and 2019. This outbreak is not over and is spreading. Some families are not immunizing their children. Reality can be harsh.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/02/2025
$19,000,000,000,000.00
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Call to Action: The Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent federal agency that safeguards federal employees in employment disputes, has paused the terminations of six probationary federal workers across various executive branch agencies and departments for 45 days.
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Medical research is a target for anti-science. The loss of grant monies is a big first step backwards towards the new Dark Ages.
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VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
You first.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Mother Jones: 'NIH Is Again Throttling Research Funding in Defiance of a Federal Court Order' 'A freeze on “new and continuation awards” will “remain in place” pending DEI review, states a new internal memo' www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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NIH is again throttling research funding in defiance of a federal court order
A freeze on "new and continuation awards" will "remain in place" pending DEI review, states a new internal memo.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The laws don't apply to the president's friends in corrupt Russian-aligned authoritarian states
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The President of the United States expressing his views on the 1st Amendment
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It has started. This is what we will expect going forward in current times.
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A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
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CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In 2023 RFK Jr. said “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said. “Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years” at a conference for the country’s largest anti-vaccine organization, Children’s Health Defense.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Is this what DOG-e plans for our economy?
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Remember Univ of Pittsburgh pediatrician Herbert Needleman, the individual leading the fight to remove lead from gasoline, despite outrageous attacks from lead, oil and automotive companies, who charged Needleman through the NIH with scientific misconduct. Their profits were at risk. Sound familiar?
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Curious why DOGE illegally installed a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management. And as this poster noted, why wouldn’t you have accounts looking for fraud and abuse instead of high-level coders?
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Scientists were quick to point out that cutting indirect costs could be detrimental to research studies because it would mean slashing funding for lab space, researchers and supplies — all considered essential for scientific research. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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NIH announces it's slashing funding for indirect research costs
The agency estimated that it could save $4 billion by capping indirect costs at 15%.
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I think it is clearer what was meant by the statement in July last year "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
NIH capping grant indirect funding to 15%
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NIH announces it's slashing funding for indirect research costs
The agency estimated that it could save $4 billion by capping indirect costs at 15%.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/02/2025
After an unprecedented pause of three weeks, the CDC has resumed publishing its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). However, three studies about bird flu that were supposed to appear in this edition, remain on hold even as the outbreak spreads.
Notes from the Field: Emergency Department Use During the Los Angeles County Wildfires, January 2025
Weekly / February 6, 2025 / 74(3);40–42

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Anthony Cannella, MD, MSc, FACP, FIDSA @apcmd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This… 💁🏻‍♂️
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The conundrum of whether pediatricians should accept unvaccinated children into their practice continues. Nice discussion.
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Deciding Whether to Accept an Unvaccinated Child into a Pediatric Practice | NEJM
This feature about a child unvaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting accepting the child as a patient without mandating the M...
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
More H5 HPAI detected now in Nevada. And CDC/NIH have been muted.
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Be a Galileo! Remember he voiced Copernicanism when it was unpopular and reprimanded by the Church. His reward for rebuking the Ptolemaic model was to be tried by the Inquisition. He spent the rest of life on house arrest. Fight back against anti-science and authoritarianism!
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A quick reminder: For every $1 of research funding, NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity. This includes funding jobs in all 50 states. This isn't a red/blue thing: 8.9 jobs per $1M in CA & 12 jobs per $1M in GA. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #MedSky #HealthSky #healthequity #SciComm bit.ly/40NkIc0
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Last Supermoon of the year last Friday the 15th
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John F Toney, MD @johnftoney.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So say we all!
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Anthony Cannella, MD, MSc, FACP, FIDSA @apcmd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thank you! #IDSky #AMR
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