Todd Ackerman

Former @HoustonChron, current @MethodistHosp. Fan of medical detection, sports, pop culture. And, yes, the photo is a "few" years old.

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@sarahesmith23 @Schwartz_Land Before and after photos? I'm guessing this is much ado about nothing.

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On this week’s @MethodistHospital On Health podcast, psychologist William Orme and metereologist/journalist Eric Berger @SpaceCityWX talk about weather and mood, what the science says about rainy-day doldrums and sunny dispositions. https://t.co/qXOp30QCtJ

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@jenradcliffe Good friend's mom once told me it's better to have sons than daughters because your son will never say to you, "you're not really going to wear that, are you?"

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Immunotherapy advance: @MethodistHosp researchers' first-time combination therapy turns "cold" tumors "hot" in difficult-to-treat triple negative breast cancer https://t.co/p12Dr1N4v5

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New Year’s Resolutions: @MethodistHospital’s On Health Season 2 opening podcast explores what it takes for a desired behavior to become a lasting habit. https://t.co/T8xHkbYW8c

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Season 2 of On Health with Houston Methodist podcast kicks off Tuesday. Here's my favorite episode from Season 1. #OnHealth https://t.co/RvMYd513Xw

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@DanaDelany @lolabea_perry @JuliyaKits Not too old to donate a kidney or liver, though. Health, not age, is the issue for those.

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@rockandrollprof Heartsick about this. A reporter's dream source who became a good friend. Had been looking forward to resuming our conversations about music and movies following his recovery from knee surgery. Condolences to the family.

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@farhip https://t.co/9NDHZpceIY

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@SchwartzChron Hey, exciting news: It's the 50th anniversary of The Godfather. In theaters this weekend. Dolby sound. Maybe you, Michela and me? Never too late for you to finally see a classic.

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@farhip Of course, it's not really "the spokesman" speaking. It's a consensus statement from the president, team of lawyers, VP of communications, etc. But not sure why Apple's so afraid of it being attributed to its official spokesman.

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@gwendolynawu @rebeccahglaser What good used bookstore is in Northridge?

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@moniguzman @xavierbonilla87 It's Australian, goes back to at least the '60s. Paul Hogan's '80s film Crocodile Dundee really popularized it; also, Disney's animated The Lion King and Steve Irwin's Crocodile Hunter series, both in the '90s. As someone below noted, it's surfer slang.

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@lomikriel @mariaramosp94 @PacoGoldman Two that I omitted that I'd also call essential: John Hersey's Hiroshima and Hunter Thompson's Hell's Angels.

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@lomikriel @mariaramosp94 @PacoGoldman Gay Talese's Fame & Obscurity, AJ Liebling's Earl of Louisiana, Robert Sabbag's Snow Blind, Mailer's Armies of the Night, The Right Stuff, Black Hawk Down, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Wolfe's New Journalism is a nice anthology of the '60s/early '70s renaissance.

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@PacoGoldman @ShirshoD John Sack's M is also great. It and Dispatches are the two great literary journalistic works on Vietnam.

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@ProfKefalas Try @RobDownenChron. He's temporarily covering the beat. I left the Chronicle a couple weeks ago.

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@rockandrollprof Thanks Michael. Hoping not to retire yet but definitely more time to enjoy music and movies.

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Immunotherapy pioneer Jim Allison takes rare step into political arena https://t.co/0q2oypPL3S

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Administering the therapy too late in the course of disease is akin to allowing a burglar to ransack a home for hours before deciding to call the police. An early dose, on the other hand, has the potential to nip a blooming infection in the bud. https://t.co/UQrI2gqopD