Jason Cohen, MD
@memorydoc.bsky.social
Neurologist, dementia specialist @ Montefiore-Einstein, New Yorker, dad. Puns welcome. Brain damage not welcome. All opinions my own and are not medical advice. He/him.
Your friendly reminder to not trust political hacks looking to profit off the American people about science (or anything else) And that ticks a f**king small. Found this little hitchhiker today.
James Holland Jones@juemos.bsky.social · 3d agoMost-recent common ancestor of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease was about 60,000 years ago, well before there were people in the Americas. I don't think the chipmunks were doing gain-of-function experiments. Figure 3 from Walter et al. (2017): doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.
I predict the Mets will be awful and that fans will only be disappointed if they are not resigned to their (formerly: our) sad fates. I will not bet on whether Mrs Met runs off with the Phillie Phanatic, but I wouldn't hold it against her
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 6d agoThe New York Mets are making the startup Novig their official prediction-market partner, marking a first for Major League Baseball as the prediction-markets industry looks for a foothold in professional sports. on.wsj.com/4wqyNJO
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Anyone remember neurologists running a Covid ward because there were not enough other doctors around? 🙋♂️ Anyone's hospital play music when someone survived and could be discharged? 🙋♂️ Anyone have a much shorter outpatient waiting list for a while because so many patients died? 🙋♂️
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 6d agoTrue
"Even modest annual reductions in (MMR) vaccine coverage among young children generate a nonlinear increase in cases & hospitalizations, with costs totaling $7.77 billion over a 5-y period." 🛟😷📈🧪 health policy sociology polisky
The health and economic repercussions of declining MMR coverage in the United States | PNAS
The resurgence of measles in the United States, driven by declining childhood vaccination coverage, poses a substantial public health and economic ...
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Reminder when it comes to mifepristone vs other meds… Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died from ICE executions in the past week than will die from mifepristone all year.
Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 2w agoNEW: A federal judge ruled that FDA restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone are scientifically unjustified in suit filed by independent clinics—says 2023 REMS is unlawful, FDA must reconsider. Louisiana suing FDA for allowing telehealth Rx in same reg storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"The old man thought about how everyone was constantly rigging things against him. The Strait must be another one of those things. There could be no other logical explanation. 'I did everything right,' the old man said to himself. He considered himself a very stable genius."
The Old Man and the Strait
“The old man thought about how everyone was constantly rigging things against him. The Strait must be another one of those things. There could be no other lo...
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"Some have asked whether providing government-funded T to our troops is a form of gender-affirming hormone therapy. Absolutely not... This T is being administered to align their bodies with the PENTAGON’S identity."
Effective Immediately, Every God-Fearing Soldier Will Be Jacked to the Gills with Testosterone
“Whether our military members are deployed to Iran, the Pacific theater, or the streets of Dubuque, Iowa, Americans can feel safe knowing our soldiers are no...
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This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF
Happy anniversary of the moon landing! I can't imagine anyone actually eating something this crummy in space, but we're celebrating with astronaut ice cream
MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL
Smoke is expected to be the worst tomorrow, Thursday, 7/16. Air Quality alerts are in effect statewide. The State Health Department recommends that individuals consider limiting strenuous outdoor physical activity to reduce the risk of adverse health effects.
Apparently there's a parasite causing death & disease besides RFK 'In addition to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak, Trump cutbacks... also brought back a flesh-eating cattle parasite, accidentally fired scientists managing the bird flu outbreak, accidentally fired FDA medical device reviewers...'
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w agoCDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country
1/ Medicare just got access to reduced price GLP-1s. Although this is a great start for access, it still comes with some caveats. Which raises the same old question: why are drug prices so high, and can we actually fix it? I partnered with Dr. Aaron Kesselheim to get to the bottom of them 🧵
"That year [1953], 35,000 Americans got polio, and about half were paralyzed.... Martha Ann Lillard was the keeper of a memory the world would like to forget." Eradicating polio was a choice Eradicating measels is a choice. We can choose suffering and death, but we don't have to
Amesh Adalja@ameshaa.bsky.social · 4w ago“Her life was a testament to the cruelty of disease and the power of medicine.” kfor.com/news/local/o...
A year ago, Donald Trump signed a bill to slash health care for millions of Americans, including children. Here’s how many kids have lost Medicaid and CHIP because of Donald Trump so far. Alabama: 5,663 kids Alaska: 12,388 kids Arizona: 74,680 kids Arkansas: 10,523 kids
1/ We're back with your public health update for New York. This week, as we're sure you're aware, there's a major heat wave, but there's also a statewide blood emergency. Here's what New Yorkers should know before the holiday weekend. 🧵
It’s been a year since Donald Trump slashed SNAP funding in his “Big Beautiful Bill.” Here’s how many people have lost food assistance in each state. Alabama: -52,480 Alaska: -422 Arizona: -469,400 Arkansas: -18,549 California: -300,838 Colorado: -26,095 Connecticut: -33,599
The NIH is an ENORMOUS bargain for the American people. Do folk think that private industry will do the background slog work for drug discovery for 250K direct costs?
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last mo.Scott Atlas, the champion of herd immunity as an Fox News commenter and the Trump Advisor during COVID, weighs in with a DEEPLY MININFORMED op-ed in the WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/7
Comprehensive review affirms that COVID mRNA vaccines are safe, effective A new study finds that benefits of mRNA technology are substantial and serious adverse events rare. Read more: ow.ly/V1jy50ZjpPi 📷: Mecklenburg County / Flickr
Eric Adams Among Lineup Of Children Escorting Turkey Players Onto Pitch
All of this ⬇️ , also for #dementia I wish we had better treatments too, but that doesn't mean the next "miracle cure" won't be any more useless or less dangerous than the last one Help us find that next breakthrough! For Alzheimer & other dementias www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...
TrialMatch: Participate in Clinical Research for Alzheimer’s and Other Dementia
Use our free TrialMatch matching tool to search for clinical research for Alzheimer's & other dementia.
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Your Local Epidemiologist@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · last mo.1/ Every week, we get questions about cancer and some new prevention strategy, miracle cure, or treatment making the rounds online. So I teamed up with @matthewfacciani.bsky.social, a misinformation researcher at Yale, to dive into what causes cancer rumors to spread and what actually helps stop it.
“Researchers have tracked the electrical crackle of individual brain cells in real time during unscripted conversations.”
Die Sankoré-Schriften@sankoreschriften.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe brain constructs sentences by firing particular neurons that can handle distinct properties of language before a single word is spoken. #neuroskyence #linguistics