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Alex Limkakeng

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Glass Half Full Professor of EM VC Clinical Research @dukeemergency 🚑, ♥️, 🧬 research; from yinz to y'all, posts=like, just my opinion, man.

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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 1h
Young Voters Say They Are Turning Their Backs on Trump and His Party www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
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Young Voters Say They Are Turning Their Backs on Trump and His Party
One of the biggest surprises of 2024 was the swing of young voters, particularly men, away from Democrats to Donald Trump. Now they are swinging back.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reporter: Do you believe that 5 deaths, potentially 6 from measles in Pennsylvania-- Staffer: We're not gonna talk about measles-- Reporter: He's the highest ranking health official in the country, he can answer that question. He's a Cabinet Secretary.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“There have been at least 52 school shootings in the United States so far this year, leaving at least 28 people dead and 48 others injured,” Broken ass country Heartsick
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4 killed, including 3 children, in shooting at Oregon elementary school, source says. Shooter is also dead | CNN
Three children and one adult were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to preliminary information from a law enforcement source.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
every time I think "I never want to read a story about an 'elementary school shooting' ever again in my life" and every time it is harder to confront the grim stats that make it unlikely we'll see so much as the end of the calendar year before we're right back here www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
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3 children, 1 adult killed in shooting at Bend, Oregon, elementary school, sources say; suspect dead
At least four people were killed in Thursday's shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School, multiple law enforcement sources told CBS News. The suspect is also dead.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
SHOW UP SATURDAY!! nokings.org
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return
Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
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Hendrik Groeneveld 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇸 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @gekdorp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How to read Section 3 of the 14th Amendment:
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Measles Outbreak in Amish Country Forces Some to Rethink Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Measles Outbreak in Amish Country Forces Some to Rethink Vaccines
The spread of measles in Pennsylvania and Ohio is largely affecting Amish communities where vaccinations levels are low.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/s...
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In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life
A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nobel Prize Awarded for Tool That Probes the Living Brain www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Discoveries in Neuroscience
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognized for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technique that uses pulses of light to activate neurons in the brain.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Penn LDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How long can patients wait for inpatient care after they’ve already been admitted to the hospital? A study co-authored by LDI’s @abfriedman.com found 17.3% of admitted patients waited at least four hours for inpatient management, highlighting a #PatientSafety risk. Read more: bit.ly/4hlSm0T
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A Potentially Harmful ED Delay That Has Been Widely Overlooked
A new study co-authored by LDI Senior Fellow Ari Friedman, MD, PhD, and 36 other emergency medicine researchers, found that thousands of patients who had already been admitted to hospitals remained in...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When Musk AND Rubio said “not a single person” died as a result of shutting down USAID, I wanted to vomit An estimated 700,000 people died (500,000 were kids) within a year of USAID being “put in the wood-chipper” Studies by Brooke Nichols at BU and by CGD researchers estimated a similar number
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
V.A. Institutes New Consent Requirements for Some Psychiatric Drugs www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/s...
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V.A. Institutes New Consent Requirements for Some Psychiatric Drugs
Veterans under 30 will have to sign forms before being given antidepressants. Medical groups fear the moves may stigmatize mental health treatment.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Radio Waves Coming From an Alien Planet May Be a Cosmic First www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/s...
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Radio Waves Coming From an Alien Planet May Be a Cosmic First
Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the biggest advance in the TREATMENT (not diagnosis or risk stratification) of EM low risk chest pain patients of my career! Kudos Paul Musey! Telehealth Treatment of Anxiety in Patients With Low-Risk Chest Pain in the Emergency Department jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Telehealth Treatment of Anxiety in Patients With Low-Risk Chest Pain in the Emergency Department
This randomized clinical trial examines if 2 types of telehealth-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy interventions were superior to primary care referral for patients with low-risk chest pain and a...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jay Bhattacharya's destructive changes to the NIH, a key goal of Project 2025, has real life consequences www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | A Bone Marrow Transplant Saved Me in '95—That Wouldn't Be Possible With Today's NIH
Proposed changes to the agency's budget threaten new cures
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Ari B Friedman @abfriedman.com · 28/09/2026
@pennldi.bsky.social covers our emerging research in the mechanisms of the harms caused by ED boarding of admitted patients. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res... Covers multiple articles and joint work with @kitdelgado.bsky.social, Alex Janke, Adrian Haimovich, and the entire resquenet.org collaboration.
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A Potentially Harmful ED Delay That Has Been Widely Overlooked
A new study co-authored by LDI Senior Fellow Ari Friedman, MD, PhD, and 36 other emergency medicine researchers, found that thousands of patients who had already been admitted to hospitals remained in...
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kennedy Keeps Finding New Ways to Undermine Trust in Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | Kennedy Keeps Finding New Ways to Undermine Trust in Vaccines
Four are dead in Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak. But the C.D.C. isn’t yet convinced.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How Much Has the U.S. Spent on the War in Iran? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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U.S. Estimates It Spent $43.6 Billion on Iran War. Here's a Breakdown.
A detailed look at the $43.6 billion the Pentagon has spent so far.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why Network TV Stopped Filming the President www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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Video: Why Network TV Stopped Filming the President
President Trump banned three news outlets from covering White House events, saying he didn’t like their coverage. Our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, explains how major television networ...
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Epstein Files Transparency Act and the Health of Trafficked Children | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The Epstein Files Transparency Act and the Health of Trafficked Children | NEJM
Policymakers have so far failed to hold perpetrators in Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network accountable, but the medical and public health community should confront the resulting health crisis.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pennsylvania officials are now reporting two more measles deaths, bringing the total to four this year. RFK Jr. continues to dispute the numbers, claiming there have been zero, despite Pennsylvania health officials confirming the cases.
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DOH Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths
DOH Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/w...
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Pennsylvania Officials Report Fourth Measles Death, as Outbreak Grows
This year has become the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pennsylvania Officials Report Fourth Measles Death, as Outbreak Grows www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/w...
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Pennsylvania Officials Report Fourth Measles Death, as Outbreak Grows
This year has become the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Unvaccinated Woman Likely Died of Measles Complications, Pa. County Coroner Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/w...
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Unvaccinated Woman Likely Died of Measles Complications, Pa. County Coroner Says
The case is the third reported death linked to a rapidly expanding outbreak that has sickened more than 670 people in the state.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Chronic Uncontrolled Hypertension in the ED—We Hold This Truth to Be Self Evident - Harrison - 2026 - Academic Emergency Medicine - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Chronic Uncontrolled Hypertension in the <fc>ED</fc>—We Hold This Truth to Be Self Evident
Click on the article title to read more.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/athletic/755...
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A Little League coach’s advice to his team went viral. Anyone can appreciate the message (Gift Article)
With his team down big in the championship game, a coach delivered a message that resonated with millions.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time’s Not Going So Well. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...
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Opinion | Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time’s Not Going So Well.
We won’t get fooled again.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Loberamisal for Acute Ischemic Stroke jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Loberamisal for Acute Ischemic Stroke
This randomized clinical trial evaluates whether intravenous loberamisal improves functional outcomes and maintains an acceptable safety profile in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated within 4...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RFK Jr & Linda McMahon told Duke last year we were no longer allowed to create a diverse health workforce & now the MAGA/MAHA Administration says we must enter a “voluntary resolution agreement” or “face referral to the Department of Justice” But their actions… dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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Trump administration finds Duke School of Medicine racially discriminated in admissions
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights found the School of Medicine to have intentionally discriminated against white and Asian students in admissions, asking Duke to ente...
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For all of the franchise’s misadventures, the Mets — led by ones who were there for that sad September in 2001 — get this right. www.nytimes.com/athletic/757...
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‘The Mets have not forgotten’ – 25 years later, the team has kept its 9/11 promise (Gift Article)
For all of the franchise’s misadventures, the Mets — led by ones who were there for that sad September in 2001 — get this right.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When Trump & RFK Jr hired the Great Barrington Declaration dudes to run the federal health agencies or be their advisers, they promised to boost trust in these agencies I'm sure you're shocked (shocked!) to see that trust fell under their kooky MAHA/MAGA watch www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
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Polls show Americans have lost confidence in federal government, public health leaders
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If it weren’t so sad and desperate this would be funny. Trump’s Dubious Midterm Pitch: Keep Us in Power and Everyone Gets Cash www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Trump Floats $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms
In his convention speech, the president floated a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” for every adult American if Republicans keep control of Congress. The idea, like many others, may not come to pass.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pedolf's foreign policy is the equivalent of The New York Jets
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
36 Hours in Midcoast Maine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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36 Hours in Midcoast Maine
Working harbors and painterly landscapes meet storied restaurants, a rich literary tradition and a thriving arts scene on this low-key stretch of Maine’s coastline.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
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Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie
Here’s some bad news: Sometimes the coyote does win.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth” —George Orwell, from Orwell on Truth
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
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Alex Eala’s tennis phenomenon is growing and changing the sport – everywhere she goes (Gift Article)
Eala, 21, has been making history for the Philippines since she was a junior. She is changing tennis culture in real time.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New email to Director Bhattacharya to start Labor Day weekend regarding the secret transfer of appropriated funds to the Department of Defense.
Dear Director Bhattacharya:

Nothing screams "radical transparency" like quietly signing an agreement with another agency transferring hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated to NIH that is only publicly disclosed through investigative reporting and only confirmed by a vague statement by you on "X".

As you know, I have been tracking NIH commitments in as close to real time as possible. I am flattered that NIH has mimicked my "funding curves" on the front page of the NIH Reporter website. Apparently, I will need to consider essentially secret interagency transfers in my analysis.

This is another good contribution to your legacy at NIH..."Director Bhattacharya broke new ground and many other things."

Sincerely,

Jeremy M. Berg
Director NIGMS, 2003-2011
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Another Heart Drug Fails, Shocking Cardiologists www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/s...
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The Heart Drug Pelacarsen Fails, Shocking Novartis and Cardiologists
Doctors were hopeful the drug, which was being tested in a large clinical trial by Novartis, was going to be a powerful new tool to fight heart disease.
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The Good Mim 🫘 @shashi1121.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The rage I feel will never be adequate.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Help to #FreeBenandJerrys
In an effort to catalyze this movement, Ben Cohen gatecrashed the Magnum Capital Market Day in London, and Jerry Greenfield resigned from the company he founded 47 years ago.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This Is the Biggest Obstacle to New Cancer Cures www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...
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Opinion | The Search for New Cures Is Broken
It is too hard for medical researchers to launch clinical trials.
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Respiratory Season Virus Vaccines
This Perspective describes the Vaccine Integrity Project, established in 2025 in response to concerns about the stability and integrity of US vaccine policy due to disruptions to the work of the Advis...
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#EpsteinFiles
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Alex Limkakeng @limkakeng.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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