🚨New pub: We looked for past-month fentanyl in hair of mostly PWH using daily or weekly meth (self-report, urine 🚫 opioids) - detected fentanyl in >20% 👀 👀 While small study, hope it makes us think about OD prevention in people using stimulants with unintentional fentanyl use.

JAMA@jama.com · 2y ago

More than 20% of men who have sex with men and use methamphetamine were exposed to fentanyl in the month prior, as detected in their hair, despite no report of fentanyl use. ja.ma/41xw9VB #MedSky

86 children and 19000 adults have died from flu this season in the U.S. and that's with a vaccine. If we have no vaccines come September these numbers will increase. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots

The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

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#Measles case reported in Los Angeles County LAX is a big airport and this is a long time frame = many people w/ potential exposure A good plug for #vaccines, because you never know when you might be exposed. publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/pub...

Oral Versus Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia or Endocarditis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials #IDSky

Oral Versus Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia or Endocarditis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials

We conducted a systematic review of randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) to generate more precise estimates of the efficacy and safety of oral versus intravenous antibiotic therapy for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia or endocarditis.

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HIV treatment @ harm reduction organizations is the future! Avoids interacting with the traditional healthcare system as much as possible and bring treatment to the people. 79% viral suppression at 12 months in this pilot study. Multi-center RCT is ongoing @hivma.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0785...

Rapid initiation of antiretrovirals at a syringe services program for people with HIV who inject drugs

People who inject drugs (PWID) living with HIV are less likely to receive care at early disease stages and have low rates of viral suppression. This study examined the feasibility and acceptability...

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My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

The NIH’s drastic cut to indirect cost rates is a critical threat to U.S. research infrastructure

The drastic reduction in indirect costs is not a path to innovation or cost savings — it’s a threat to U.S.’s position as global leader in medical research.

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

NIH Office of Research On Women's Health. At top: Putting science to work for the health of women. Just below that: Page not found. The link: dead. I guess....improving the health of women is...no longer a priority. Or, even allowed?

STI Treatment Guidelines are down, for now go to nnptc.org where our group has housed STI and HIV PrEP guidelines #HIVSky #STISky #IDSky

In the endTB phase 3 trial, three 9-month, all-oral regimens were found to be noninferior to standard treatment (typically 18 to 24 months) for rifampin-resistant tuberculosis. Read the full trial results: nej.md/3WFFJTv #MedSky #IDSky

Show me the American visiting the doctor who wants the dystopian clinician panic that these cornerstone Infectious Diseases references are gone in a flash. #EndingtheEpidemic was a Trump 1.0 initiative to end HIV. How is the #CDC controlling disease by eliminating tools in our 🩺 kit?

Oni Blackstock, MD MHS@oniblackstock.bsky.social · 2y ago

They've taken down CDC HIV Awareness Day pages, the HIV Testing page. It appears they've taken down all the HIV pages except for this About HIV page. www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/in...

I'm just here to say for the 2nd week in a row, the CDC has not released its morbidly and mortality weekly report on schedule. Everyone who provides healthcare to patients in the US is less informed and less up to date as a direct result. This impacts negatively at the population level.

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 2y ago

Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵

Helloooo #medsky #addictionmed #IDsky fam! After a post-X cleanse, looking forward to scrolling over here in 2025... On that hopeful note, check out this promising step toward increasing access to contingency management: $75 incentive cap --> $750! Let's go. www.statnews.com/2025/01/08/m...

Biden administration allows larger incentives for people who reduce meth use

The White House gives agencies more leeway with one of the few tools against meth use: financial incentives, or "contingency management."

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