Mintu Turakhia, MD MS
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CMO/CSO/EVP Product @irhythmtech. Professor @Stanford. EP, scientist, trialist, builder (Evidently, 100Plus, PocketRN, Hippocratic). Views mine.
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2013
RT @PutrinoLab: Wanted to check-in with these new @NIH changes that are going to affect so many. First let me remind everyone: I run 6 hybr…
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WHOA. NIH indirect rate cap at 15 percent for all. This is going to be a massive issue with far-reaching intended and unintended consequences if it holds.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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RT @CMichaelGibson: Woah The government used to pay academic institutions 60% + on top of the costs of research grant to cover “Indirect…
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@phuturize @NIH This is the biggest threat to the sustainability of the academic scientific enterprise…ever.
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@foundmyfitness It’s observational; saying “benefit” and “protective” implies causation. “Association” is all you can say. . People who drink coffee in the morning are different in MANY ways than people who don’t; most of them unmeasured. Let’s stop embracing nutritional epidemiology.
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@drjohnm One reason is the limited scrutiny and depth of the limitations section in peer review and publication. We don’t push authors to be more self-critical.
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1. Alcohol is harmful, despite years of confounded data being no better than wishful thinking. 2. The dose relationship is unknown, varies by person, and there no magic threshold. 3. Less consumption = less risk. We take risks daily; make + accept your own informed choices.
In the wake of the US @Surgeon_General ’s guidance on alcohol, what advice do you give your patients about drinking? @drjohnm & @adamcifu & @VPrasadMDMPH answer
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RT @DonnaDavisHNL: @Sassafrass_84 Definitely built different! Convinced as kids we are indestructible
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Beware of nutritional epidemiology. It’s hopelessly confounded and has led to lots false narratives of health benefits — first tobacco, now alcohol. Randomized studies of nutrition are hard, but N of 1 and case-crossover designs with reliable, valid surrogate biomarkers is a start.
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RT @nytimes: Zakir Hussain, a peerless Indian tabla player who transcended genres and brought classical Indian music to a global audience,…
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RT @FilmHistoryPic: #RIP Ustad Zakir Hussain dies at 73 Perhaps the last of the legends whose name is synonymous with a musical instrument…
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@hvanspall @AndrewJSauer @MkosiborodMD @MidAmericaHeart @RyanTedfordMD @BrettSperryMD @DrMarthaGulati @mvaduganathan @mmamas1973 @CMichaelGibson @JJheart_doc @JavedButler1 @noshreza @MkosiborodMD is indeed amazing! And there is a strong history of moving in and out of academia, government/policy, and industry in cardiovascular medicine. It’s why being a cardiologist is the greatest.
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