π€£ my full name as a nickname is objectively hilarious
π€£ my full name as a nickname is objectively hilarious
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Our team estimated the number of people who may become newly homeless if the President's housing policies are realized. Over 44,000 additional people may become homeless if the federal government stops funding for Housing First programs!
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USAID has had a remarkable positive impact on poverty and disease worldwide and its destruction is causing widespread PREVENTABLE suffering, thanks to the president and his evil goons. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This Administration is callous and cruel to its own citizens and to many more around the world. From dismantling food, housing, and medical aid globally to fighting courts to avoid being forced to deliver food aid within the country, they are showing a clear disdain for people living in poverty.
βUndermining harm reduction and cutting related programs isnβt merely a funding decision; it is an assault on an approach to health care that prioritizes evidence, compassion, and dignity β values that are central to the medical profession.β
Great piece @jabarocas.bsky.social
Methadone access is essential for many people with opioid use disorder to reduce overdose, the impacts of injection use, and the chaos many experience with addictionβand no surprise Medicaid helps increase access! Great use of national data
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...
Beyond the horrendous human suffering due to these ICE actions, it makes me think of a story from Heather McGheeβs The Sum of Usβdraining neighborhood pools rather than desegregating. We favor shooting ourselves in the foot rather than making things better for all. bit.ly/4l1NMna
Trump signed an EO calling for an end to Housing First policies and harm reduction, as well as criminalization of homelessness and mental health. This is a terrible idea. Read here for more: bit.ly/417vr0E
βOf the interventions that have been tested & implemented, helping people into stable housing without precondition of sobriety, otherwise known as the Housing First model, is a compassionate way to decrease homelessness, reduce health care use, & possibly improve health outcomes.β
Distribution of cases of blastomycosis in A) Marketscan data, B) Medicare data, and C) historical maps
Distribution of cases of hisoplasmosis in A) Marketscan data, B) Medicare data, and C) historical maps
Distribution of cases of coccidioidomycosis in A) Marketscan data, B) Medicare data, and C) historical maps
Mapping the Geographic Distribution of Dimorphic Mycoses Using a US Commercial Insurance Database
@julioczuniga1.bsky.social @fungaldoc.bsky.social
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More data to show that the geographic range of dimorphic fungal infections is much wider than taught in med school
The actual synthesis between the GOPβs pro business commitments and RFKβs various crunchy instincts isnβt food system reform, itβs going easier on scammy supplements.
With the publication of PURPOSE 2 for PrEP in @nejm.org, and the stellar results, I wonder whatβs going to happen once it gets approved for this indication. Should be interesting, to say the least! blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...