I wrote about how ankylosing spondylitis came to be seen as a "white man's disease," and the Black women who are trying to change that. For many of them, it took *decades* to get a correct diagnosis. statnews.com/2021/12/21/ank…

When I was a PGY-1, neuro-oncologist Dr. Darin Carabenciov taught me a quick yet systematic approach to MR imaging of brain lesions. I am on call this weekend and am still utilizing his teachings to this day! A thread: (1/7)

1/ I wanted to share a formative rabbit hole I went down prior to joining #NeuroTwitter. It was a project with one goal: to use neuroimaging to understand human consciousness. What ensued was fascinating. A 🧵, and you can read it in Neurology Journal here: bit.ly/3DV955X

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Humanity has been warned many times about the looming food diversity crisis - a threat symbolized by the banana. When humans first encountered wild bananas in Southeast Asia, the fruits were filled with hard seeds which made them largely inedible.

OMG it literally took someone SWIMMING FROM HAWAII TO CALIFORNIA to discover this, but wow did we find something shocking in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... [a thread 🧵]… Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

AMAZING 3D representation of anatomic relationships between frontal and lateral chest x-rays Via Ochsner Radiology Sam Ghali, M.D. #MedTwitter

We need to stop using the “criminal justice” system to coerce people into substance use treatment by threats of incarceration. Treatment should be accessible to all who want it and not coerced. And harm reduction programs save lives and should be supported.

1/🧵 Long COVID Brain Science: 🧠 For ~100M suffering 🌎, let’s use data to combat myths & #Misinformation COVID is biologically dangerous long after virus is gone #LongCOVID affects our…. 📍Olfactory & Limbic Systems 📍 Interferon Autoimmunity 📍PET scans 📍Astrocytes How?

STAT just published an eight part series I’ve worked on for the last two years. I’ll have more to say in the AM. But for now, ill just say please read it, and that I’m so thankful to the folks who shared their stories, and all my great colleagues here. statnews.com/death-sentence/