It makes me so sad & angry that people don’t think we are worth saving. You’re looking at 8 combined overdoses in this pic. Surviving and thriving. Harm reduction saves lives.

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1 🚨Attention please: Turns out #xylazine is a kappa opioid. This validates experience from frontline folks and PWUD. Fresh science from collaborators @nanopharmNC @MadiganLBedard BryanRoth Pre-print: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Public health 🧵 below #TwitteRx #harmreduction

Current practice guidelines (i.e. JNC-8) recommend that Black patients with hypertension w/o co-morbidities initially be treated with a thiazide diuretic or a calcium channel blocker while non-Black patients are initially offered ACE-I.

Thanks to all NYC Health + Hospitals and city and state partners who made this happen. It’s been quite a week, but we are filled with joy to welcome our patients back to Woodhull.

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🤩Our new research examining how the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act would impact methadone availability by allowing prescribing by addiction specialist physicians #methadone #rural National Coalition to Liberate Methadone @MaryniaKolak doi.org/10.1093/haschl…

Great news for #Brooklyn! Our Lifestyle Medicine program is now at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull to help patients with #diabetes and #high blood pressure get the support they need to live healthier lives: on.nyc.gov/47trWmg.

So well deserved! ❤️

Remarkable RCT from Norway demonstrating that starting HCV treatment in the hospital with newly diagnosed HCV among PWIDs is superior to deferring therapy to outpatient care in achieving HCV cure. Results argue for broader use. Håvard Midgard SELIHEP doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

If only.

Andre Braugher. God. I've worked with a lot of wonderful actors. I'll never work with one better. Stunned and thinking of Ami and his sons and so many memories of this good man that are now a blessing. But too damn soon.

We are profoundly grateful that Dr. Ruth Gottesman, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official, has made a transformational gift to #MontefioreEinstein—the largest to any medical school in the country—that ensures no student has to pay tuition again. bit.ly/3wvBj7y

I don’t think every healthcare worker needs to be 100% clinical. I don’t even think every HCW needs to stay clinical for their whole career. But if you’re in a position of telling other HCWs what to do, you should probably be doing some clinical work.

1/ 🧵Seeing Dr Jim O’Connell from Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program was a joy and a reminder of the 1st lesson he taught me at Boston Health Care for the Homeless me: “Jim, we assure *access* to care for homeless people, right? Jim: “not exactly.. our patients have lots of *access* in the ERs. What

Congratulations Bini 💚🇪🇷 You made Tour de France history

Congratulations, Tim Walz! Gwen and Tim are longtime BPI champions. They know college changes lives. ❤️❤️

Kevin Durant, on patriotism, and playing for Team USA: “A lot of bullshit happens in our country. But a lot of great things happen, too.”

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