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Mini Kamboj

@mini_kamboj

Infectious Disease Physician, Hospital Epidemiologist at @MSKCancerCenter

 Manhattan, NY
Joined February 2018
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@NFIDVaccinesMar 27
Why do younger people seem to be getting #shingles? ow.ly/41om50YyV8C via @healthcentral with #NFID Medical Director @ARAdultImmDoc
Shingles Rates Appear to Be Growing in Both Younger and Older Adults

Shingles Rates Appear to Be Growing in Both Younger and Older Adults

The virus typically targets seniors, but stress and certain chronic illnesses mean younger people are also at risk.

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Congratulations for this well deserved honor Miguel @MSKCancerCenter
Yan Leyfman, MD (@YLeyfman) profile pictureYan Leyfman, MD
@YLeyfmanFeb 5
Huge congratulations to Miguel-Angel Perales MD of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on being named a Fellow of the ASTCT! The field is fortunate to have your steady, visionary leadership—and generations of trainees are better for your mentorship and investment in their growth. Well deserved. 👏🌟 #ASTCT #CellTherapy #BMT #Leadership #Mentorship #NextGenOncology #tandem26 #tandem2026
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Sec. Kennedy must appear before the HELP Committee to explain why his vaccine advisory committee, in strong disagreement with the medical & scientific community, voted to end a decades-long recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine. This vaccine saves lives.
The New York Times (@nytimes) profile pictureThe New York Times
@nytimes5 Dec 2025
Breaking News: A federal vaccine committee voted to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children. nyti.ms/4rUxt06
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12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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RSV after CAR-T #ASH25 @mini_kamboj - 667 pts s/p CAR: 38 RSV infections - 74% infx >D100 (median 8 mo) - 71% URTI, 29% LRTI: 8 G3 cases (all got ribavirin +/- steroids/IVIG & survived) - LRTI: older, lower ALC & CD4 Targeted vaccination strategies? #lymsm #tcellrx
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@Nature22 Oct 2025
People being treated for certain deadly cancers lived longer if they had received an mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19 than if they hadn’t go.nature.com/43riRKL
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🚨@OncoAlert @ASCO Registration Alert‼️ #ASCOQLTY25 Register today (before rates go up this Friday)! 🗣️ Engage in meaningful discussions 🤝 Build lasting relationships 🔋 Leave feeling energized & inspired ➡️ Join us in Chicago Oct 10-11, 2025 📆 asco.org/quality/registratio…
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@ASCO2 Sep 2025
We’re excited to announce the #ASCOQLTY25 Featured Voices! Follow them before, during & after the event for expert insights & to be a part of the meeting experience. Registration is still open: brnw.ch/21wVoOb
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Empirically, this is not true. Not all mothers have prenatal care. Some get infected between testing in the first trimester and delivery. In some cases, the test is overlooked. If a child is infected at birth, they have a 95% chance of becoming chronically infected UNLESS, they get one dose of hepatitis B vaccine. If they do, they have less than a 5% chance of being chronically infected.
Rand Paul (@RandPaul) profile pictureRand Paul
@RandPaul31 Aug 2025
No medical reason to give newborns Hep B vaccine if mother is not infected. All mothers who deliver in a hospital are tested. This “scientist’s” fetish for vaccines not supported by the data
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Jason Ukman@JasonUkman25 Jun 2025
News: The American Academy of Pediatrics says it will no longer take part in the process of ACIP meetings. “We won’t lend our name or our expertise to a system that is being politicized at the expense of children’s health,” the group's president says. statnews.com/2025/06/25/cdc-…

CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations

A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.

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Do you know someone who tried to get a Covid vaccine but couldn’t because the recommendations changed? I’m really interested in hearing those stories and documenting them. Please DM me or email me at work. Thanks so much.
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Pretty interesting to see #CDC post pre-buttals on thimerosal in vaccines & the MMRV vaccine in advance of this week's #ACIP meeting, where the new committee appears intent on reopening debate on settled science. cdc.gov/acip/meetings/presen…

ACIP Meeting Materials: June 25-26, 2025 Meeting

Review the ACIP presentations and meeting materials for the June 25-26, 2025 meeting.

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Very proud of the 17 dismissed ACIP members for writing this together – Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads | JAMA | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads

In this Viewpoint, former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) caution that the sudden change in the ACIP may reverse the achievements of US immunization policy,...

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It’s been an honor to serve as a voting member of ACIP. I’m so grateful to the extraordinary CDC staff who partnered with us on our work. And to Melinda Wharton, the ACIP Secretary who I’ve long looked up to as a public health leader.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 (@HelenBranswell) profile pictureHelen Branswell 🇨🇦
@HelenBranswell9 Jun 2025
This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. statnews.com/2025/06/09/rfk-…
Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel

Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

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Thank you @MSKCancerCenter
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (@MSKCancerCenter) profile pictureMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
@MSKCancerCenter10 Jun 2025
🎉 Congratulations to MSK's most recent Awards & Appointments honorees, including @AndreaCercek and @TheVinodLab for being named to the 2025 TIME100 Health List, @mini_kamboj for receiving the 2024 Excellence in Health Care Award by @UnitedHospFund, and more: mskcc.org/news-releases/msk-…
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A recent study by @LaracyJustin and @mini_kamboj found that dipstick urine tests were accurate for diagnosing urinary tract infections in immunocompromised people being treated for #cancer, even those with a low white blood cell count. Having an accurate way to rule out infection reduces unnecessary antibiotic use, which positively influences outcomes. @MSKCancerCenter. bit.ly/3PVhkp8
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APIC@APIC17 Feb 2025
APIC calls for immediate reinstatement of CDC’s EIS officers recently laid off. Cutting frontline disease detectives threatens public health and weakens epidemic response. This decision must be reversed NOW. 🔗 bit.ly/3QmY44c #ProtectPublicHealth
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Improving UTI Diagnostics in Oncology: Reliability of Reflex Urine Culture in Immunosuppressed Neutropenic and Non-neutropenic Cancer Patients ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/40jKW4D
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Very proud of this hard work by all involved. Limited benefit of adjuvanted flu vaccine vs standard dose and 2 vs 1 doses in patients with myeloma, CLL or NHL. @NEJM @PeterMacCC @NCICancer nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Influenza Vaccination Strategies in Patients with Hematologic Cancer | NEJM

Influenza Vaccination Strategies in Patients with Hematologic Cancer | NEJM

In this trial involving patients with hematologic cancers, the immune responses that were elicited were similar for adjuvanted-dose and standard-dose influenza vaccines.

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Should patients with cancer be excluded from reflex urine culture algorithms ? 👇@MSKCancerCenter experience. UTI Diagnostics in Oncology: Reliability of Reflex Urine Culture in Immunosuppressed Neutropenic and Non-… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3981… @CIDJournal @MSKCancerCenter @EBabady
Improving Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostics in Oncology: Reliability of Reflex Urine Culture in...

Improving Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostics in Oncology: Reliability of Reflex Urine Culture in...

Reflex urine culture protocols contingent upon a screening dipstick urinalysis are a safe and effective platform for diagnostic stewardship in patients with cancer including those with neutropenia.

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