Josh Attridge

Not very active much here anymore, but updated my PediTools site - WHO 0-5 years (daily) and 5-19 years - WHO Growth Charts for Canada - INTERGROWTH-21st birth/growth - Cerebral Palsy - calculators searchable + data carryover + fully audited - combined AAP 2022 Stanford Premie BiliRecs calculators

Reassuring to see that hydrocortisone was not associated with SIP/FIP, in a propensity scored cohort. https://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2026/10/07/archdischild-2026-330846.long #nicuverse #NeoMastodon

Effective today, legally residing immigrants with humanitarian statuses — including refugees, people granted asylum, victims of trafficking, and others — who were previously eligible for Medicaid will now be unable to access publicly-funded coverage.

When out HOMES has become SHAME… so so stupid.

Please vaccinate. So sad with these preventable deaths/complications.

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports

Anyone with a 3D model for umbilical cord that they could share? Looking online, but thought I might crowd source it to see if anyone had something they use to print out for training purposes. #nicu #neosim #nicusim

In severe #RetinopathyOfPrematurity, #Dexamethasone eye drops showed no clinically significant differences in adverse events vs placebo and may offer a noninvasive alternative to reduce invasive treatment. ja.ma/4waJsrj

Watching Laura Ingraham make faces at Fauci's hearing while listening to Laura Ingraham complain about other people making faces

Ogunbowale battling, tips board - fearless drive. So good… #WNBA #DallasWings

Pain is a common symptom during pregnancy, and access to effective pain relief is an essential part of healthcare. This graphic summarises a strategy for discussing analgesia with pregnant women, and working with them to find an appropriate level of pain relief https://bit.ly/4f3Qjx7

HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Should have been a red on Portugal 🇵🇹

Spurs-Thunder, could get used to this for the next 5-6 years

Don’t pick your nose in public - h th en you have to do something with it. False positives from MRI without symptoms is not helpful.

Nursemaid’s elbow: What not to do

Anyone seeing an uptick in SIP/focal intestinal perf? CNH has had 8 in last week or so & two tonight? When I had looked at UVA data (20 years ago) we had a spring peak, but this was not born out in R. Clark’s Mednax dataset. Haven’t had case at home Level III for years. #nicusky #pedssky #pedssurg

Blue Ridge born and raised, I'm fired up beyond words by the chance to represent this beautiful new VA-6. From Charlottesville to Lynchburg, Rocktown to Roanoke, we're fighting to bring down costs and bring back our civil liberties. Together, let's turn the Blue Ridge blue!

Nice write up by Dr. Ramos w shout out to Dr. Kupperman on indications for LP in febrile neonates thesgem.com/2026/04/sgem...

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

Here's a thought: stop pushing slop generators that have no ethical or practical justification for their destruction of the environment & theft of actual humans' hard work. It's that simple: Never Generative AI.

Bottom left image is a great visual for trainees to learn and remember. If the bowel loops aren’t extending out to the abdominal wall on any side and seem like it’s centralized - need to look w US to assess for Abdominal ascites. Air filled bowel loops floating on intraabdominal fluid/ascites.

Go make some good trouble today. 💚

Maybe the #nicuverse is not yet populated enough for a discussion about this, but I still want to share this here. Hi to @neonatalethics @keithbarrington @Gotped @padkaer I foresee professional ethical battles (discussions) around preterm infants will take re-surface, similar to the battles […]

Super sneaky PAC against the redistricting push in VA (which was a response to TX) - using a photo and outdated quote from Gov Spanberger to encourage voting against the VA constitutional amendment to TEMPORARILY adopt new districts. Paid for by Justice for Democracy PAC #VAElections #Virginia

Love this chart

Gotta love the ABP MOCA question that has a 19% correct answer rate - thinking there may be some issues w the question. @abpeds #MOCA-PEDS

It is dangerously cold this weekend and soon we'll have a ton of snow. If you live in an area impacted by this snowstorm and you order delivery, you need to tip your driver at least 50%. They're putting themselves at great risk being out when it's this cold and hazardous.

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.

Statistically significant does not mean clinically significant. In the latest Stats, Stat! animated video from 𝘕𝘌𝘑𝘔 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, Nigam and colleagues explain the minimal clinically important difference. Watch “How the Minimal Clinically Important Difference Works”: youtu.be/rStW1rBjURc #MedSky

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

please consider the significant upsides of giving birth in a hospital

TJ Watt gets a pneumothorax from dry needling. How far do those needles go in? And aren’t they supposed to be thin? This lead me to look up complication rate. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxgk...

Adam Langer hitting it out of park on his response to Dr Høeg - or apple oranges comparison of Denmark to US vis-à-vis hepatitis b great job!!!

That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.

Here's an answer from a CDC expert: "if you're looking at recent data and saying, 'Well, there's not very much horizontal transmission' that doesn't mean that it can't happen. It means that the vaccine is preventing it"

HC Meissner fighting the good fight right now on Hep B vaccines in newborn at the CDC clown show. #CDC #HepatitisBvaccine

This regime has raised stupidity and meritless gloating to Olympic sport level.

I’ve decided I’m more of a Rundle D player these days. #LL

Man - loving the American Revolution so far… nerding out to Ken Burns docs and reading the backgrounds is how I plan on spending large parts of retirement.

“Nico Harrison traded a generational superstar the right way” - by Ezra Klein #Mavericks #nico

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.