What do y’all think about Stargate? Musk Bashes Trump’s New Stargate AI Initiative. Musk took to his X social media platform to poke holes in the Stargate AI infrastructure deal Trump announced at the White House on Tuesday, a private joint venture funded by American technology giants OpenAI and Oracle, Japan-based SoftBank and Emirati-based MGX investment firms. Musk escalated his criticism Wednesday afternoon, dubbing Stargate “fake” and calling Altman a “swindler.”
HbA1c not going down
Climate change is costing Americans thousands of dollars in many states including Florida, North Carolina, and California and President Trump is already rolling back environmental protections in the United States. What is Congress doing to help protect Americans from climate disasters and the related increasing home insurance costs? You can contact your representatives in Congress about this at (202) 224-3121. As many in Congress are up for reelection next year they should hear from American voters. 🇺🇸
https://www.kfyrtv.com/2025/01/20/climate-change-linked-climbing-insurance-costs/?outputType=amp
President Donald Trump has rescinded former President Joe Biden's executive order 14087, which was put in place to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Americans.
The key components of executive order 14087 implemented by Biden: Medicare $2 drug list model: This initiative sought to cap certain generic drug prices at $2 for Medicare beneficiaries, enhancing affordability.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-medicare-executive-order-explained-2018138
Different specialty
An interesting study using machine learning to help identify patients that may benefit from more aggressive medical management of CAD.
Machine learning using combined coronary CT angiography and stress cardiac MRI data outperformed existing scores in predicting major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with newly diagnosed coronary artery disease.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.233030
Orangetheory Hiit #workout
Interesting study as there is frequently a shortage of trained staff in smaller US cities and towns, in the future AI may be able to help the staff available there do more testing than what they are trained for.
In this multicenter validation study, THCPs (including medical assistants, respiratory therapists, and nurses) with AI assistance achieved LUS (lung ultrasound) images meeting diagnostic standards compared with LUS experts without AI. This technology could extend access to LUS to underserved areas lacking expert personnel.
Raspberry Snowflake Pull-Apart Wreath class, it was really good #foodstr
[Diets high in processed carbs have been associated with the development of cardiovascular disease]
An interesting study looking at using AI-ECG to predict mortality in repaired tetralogy of Fallot patients as there is a growing adult repaired toF population.
A convolutional neural network was trained on electrocardiograms (ECGs) obtained at Boston Children’s Hospital and tested on Boston (internal testing) and Toronto (external validation) INDICATOR (International Multicenter TOF Registry) cohorts to predict 5-year mortality. AI-ECG performed similarly to the biventricular global function index (an imaging biomarker) and outperformed QRS duration. AI-ECG 5-year mortality prediction, but not QRS duration, was a significant independent predictor when added into a Cox regression model with biventricular global function index to predict shorter time-to-death on internal and external cohorts.
https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.07.015
Cardiologists vs cardiothoracic surgeons