Regina Schaffer
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Medical journalist with @gohealio.bsky.social. 🩺
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📣A new @gohealio.bsky.social Beneath the Surface podcast is live!

🎙️In this episode, @joelgel.bsky.social talks with Emma Guttman-Yassky about inflammatory diseases, the association between JAK inhibition and Down syndrome comorbidities and more.

👇Check it out 👇

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Discussing possible JAK-inhibition, Down syndrome link with Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD
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September is World Alzheimer's Month.🧠

Learn more about how you can support patients and caregivers and aid in early detection of dementia here: www.healio.com/news/primary...
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What is food noise?🍽️📢

In the latest Nourish to Flourish column, Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, speaks with experts from @pennstateuniv.bsky.social about:

💡The concept of food noise;
💡Why it happens;
💡How it can impact chronic health conditions; and more!

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"In a disorganized start to the second day of their meeting, members of the ACIP also reversed a vote they made the previous evening that preserved some children’s access to a vaccine that the panel had just voted not to recommend."

#IDSky #MedSky

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CDC advisors table vote to delay hepatitis B vaccination in newborns
CDC vaccine advisors voted Thursday to remove a longstanding federal recommendation that allowed young children to get a vaccine that combines protection against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella.
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💉 CDC advisors say COVID shots should require talk with doctor.

❓ But also: Details of a strange vote (which failed) that would have recommended COVID-19 vaccines require a prescription, something the ACIP does not control.

More coming soon:

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CDC advisors say COVID shots should require talk with doctor
CDC vaccine advisors voted Friday to weaken federal recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, even among older adults, saying vaccination should be based on shared clinical decision-making.The Advisory C...
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💵 The #OneBigBeautifulBill introduces significant changes to the tax landscape, offering opportunities for physicians.

In the latest installment of Residency to Retirement, OJM Group experts highlight the tax provisions they say will be most impactful: www.healio.com/news/hematol...
Key tax provisions of the OBBBA: What physicians need to know
Sweeping tax legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA, was signed into law by President Donald J. Trump on July 4, 2025.
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Catch up on news from the European Society of Cardiology Congress:

🫀 Digitoxin for HFrEF
🫀 Beta-blockers after heart attack
🫀 New treatments for obstructive + nonobstructive HCM
🫀 Baxdrostat for resistant hypertension
🫀 + more

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European Society of Cardiology
The latest news from the ESC Congress, with physician perspective, researcher interviews and clinician insight.
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📚🎒✏️ A new school year can also bring #psoriasis and #eczema flareups, contact dermatitis & more.

I spoke with Deirdre Hooper of Audubon Dermatology and Danilo Del Campo of @Chicago Skin Clinic for their best back to school skin tips! 🍎

More ⬇️

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Tips for treating common back-to-school skin concerns
As children return to school, common skin conditions that were previously under control may flare up once again, thanks to a combination of stressful changes, disrupted routines and even the changing ...
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A 🆕 Beneath the Surface podcast is live!

🎙️In this episode, @joelgel.bsky.social talks with @drjohnbarbieri.bsky.social about FDA’s 2023 proposed changes to the iPledge system & impacts of trials & treatments on patients w/ hormonal acne.

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A deep dive into iPledge changes with John Barbieri, MD
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“This bidirectional risk profile — elevated with infection and reduced with vaccination — is both clinically relevant and mechanistically intriguing.. infection may trigger, and vaccination may help prevent, type-2-driven respiratory complications.” www.healio.com/news/allergy...
COVID-19 vaccination reduces risks for asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinosinusitis
COVID-19 was associated with greater risks for asthma, allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis, but risks for these diseases fell with vaccination, according to data published in The Journal of A...
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