The 17 members of the #ACIP who were dismissed last week have written a commentary published in #JAMA:
#JAMA
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads | Vaccination | JAMA | #JAMA Network https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2835626 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2835626#google_vignette%E2%80%A6 (1/6)
Use of GLP-1 RAs is associated with a 2-fold higher risk of Macular Degeneration
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/article-abstract/2834964
#HackerNews #GLP1RAs #MacularDegeneration #HealthRisk #Ophthalmology #JAMA
#USPol #JAMA #GunViolence #ChildrensHealth
From NPR.org: Gun deaths of children are on the rise, and state laws make a difference, a study says : Shots - Health News
A relação entre riscos cardiovasculares e desenvolvimento da demência
- cijnusp
https://jornal.usp.br/radio-usp/a-relacao-entre-riscos-cardiovasculares-e-desenvolvimento-da-demencia/
#OctvioMarquesPontesNeto #RdioUSP #Demncia #Diabetesetabagismo #Hipertenso #JAMA #Riscocardiovascularesmodificveis
It reminds me of #AtlasShrugged.
“We are probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine (#NEJM), #JAMA and those other journals because they are all corrupt."
Kennedy said agencies within the #HHS will create their own “in-house” journals. “They are going to become the preeminent journals, because if you get #NIH funding it is anointing you as a good, legitimate scientist,” he said.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5322269-robert-kennedy-jr-bans-medical-journals/
This is amazing because I never ever see anyone talk about the clinical benefits of acceptance and commitment therapy. All I ever see is that CBT cures all problems and everyone should do it, which is ridiculous.
I didn’t read this whole thing, but I suspect that parents accepting their child’s diagnosis and figuring out how to help them live the best life they can with the health that they have would keep them from triggering asthma attacks that they can prevent. If you’re not constantly trying to push yourself because you refuse to accept limitations that really helps. Weird, huh?
I don’t understand why this wouldn’t be the way to go. Let’s see, should I accept my condition and commit to living my best life anyway or should I constantly trying to gaslight myself into thinking that everything is great despite the fact that it’s not? Toxic positivity or accommodations and reality? Weird how acceptance and commitment works better than toxic positivity. I’m so happy they did a study about this lol
“Acceptance and Commitment Therapy–Based Parenting Program in Children With Co-Occurring Asthma and ADHD
A Randomized Clinical Trial”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834331
I know I’m being cynical and traumatized, but do kids really get better from long Covid two years or is that just what they’re going with so they can deny everyone disability benefits?
The Importance of Playing the Long Game With Long COVID and Long-Term Hospital Recovery
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834758
I am really appreciating the acronym for neurologic auto immune disorders. (NAIDS)
“This multicenter retrospective cohort study included patients with #cancer who were treated with ICIs between October 2013 and May 2023 and had preexisting multiple sclerosis (#MS ), myasthenia gravis (#MG ), Guillain-Barré syndrome (#GBS ), and other NAIDs as well as a control cohort of patients with Parkinson disease (#PD ) . . . Meaning: These findings suggest that ICIs may be an option for many patients with appropriate oncologic indications and preexisting autoimmune neurologic disorders, although they should be used with caution in patients with myasthenia gravis.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834879
Yeah maybe society shouldn’t push psych meds on people who are having trouble existing in this capitalist hellscape because of systematic problems.
Why should people be forced to take psychiatric medication just so they can more calmly except the systematic problems? Especially if they’re going to get #ALS from them? (And listen I am pro medication, Adderall changed my life. But I remember being prescribed SSRI’s in the early 2000s because I was having trouble affording life after the price gouging that never went down after 9/11. Prozac wouldn’t make my previously $400 now $700 rent more affordable.)
“Question Is there an association between prescribed use of common psychiatric medications and the risk and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?
Findings In this case-control study including nearly 9000 individuals, prescribed use of #anxiolytics, #hypnotics and #sedatives, or #antidepressants was associated with a 34%, 21%, and 26% higher future risk of ALS. Prediagnostic use of such medications was also associated with poor prognosis after ALS diagnosis.
Meaning These findings suggest a potential link between psychiatric medications, or their indications (ie, psychiatric disorders), and the risk and progression of ALS.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834877
(Edited to fix “health scape” (hellscape)
In case you can’t see the body of the link, the rest of it says this:
“Deaths from opioids decreased substantially during the same period, from about 83 100 to 54 700. Overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine also dropped. Increased distribution of naloxone and better access to treatment for substance use disorders, among other factors, have contributed to the recent declines, the CDC said in February.
Another recent CDC report found that nonfatal overdoses suspected to involve fentanyl also have decreased. The analysis of emergency department visits found that fentanyl-involved nonfatal overdoses trended downward by 11% per quarter through the beginning of 2024 after increasing by about 9% every 3 months from the end of 2020 through mid-2023.”
#JAMA #CDC #OD
What is happening in South Dakota? Noem’s poor leadership caused drug overdoses?? So it wasn’t Biden’s fault people were overdosing on fentanyl? Weird.
“Drug overdose deaths decreased almost 27% in the US, from approximately 110 000 deaths in 2023 to 80 400 in 2024, provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate.
Almost all states experienced declines, the National Center for Health Statistics reported, excluding South Dakota and Nevada.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2835193
"Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house."
-- RFK Jr.
Troubling to ask: is the worm truly dead?
With such a cluttered target environment the below obscurely located little radar screen has the best non-paywalled rundown.
Non si fa in tempo a ironizzare su Robert. F. Kennedy Jr che lo ritrovi a muovere guerra alle più autorevoli riviste mediche mondiali, accusate di essere corrotte e marionette manovrate da Big Pharma.🤦♂️
Sorry about all the JAMA this morning but there’s a lot. And this one is particularly upsetting because the US still uses psychiatry as a weapon against women, and I suppose the only difference between a private prison and a private psychiatric hospital would be the mandatory medication. And that’s pretty terrifying.
Question How has private equity (PE) investment among US psychiatric hospitals changed in recent years, and what is the cross-sectional association of PE with geography, staffing, and quality?
Finding About 14% of US psychiatric hospitals were owned by PE in 2021, with two-thirds of these facilities located in the southern US. In adjusted models, PE ownership was associated with lower staffing ratios but higher performance on quality measures of restraint, 7- and 30-day follow-up visits, and 30-day all-cause readmission.
Meaning These results demonstrate that PE ownership among US psychiatric hospitals is growing, underscoring the importance of US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services initiatives to monitor patient experience.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2833839
May 16, 2025
CDC: Better Screening Access Drives Rise in Autism Diagnoses
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2834344
Someone tell the lunatics at #MAHA please.
Oh look- providing housing to people who can’t afford it actually saves money.
From the link:
Question To what extent does a Medicaid housing benefit pilot program address the housing needs of participants, and what are the financial implications of implementing the program?
Findings In this cohort study, 517 individuals were enrolled; top needs were rent and utility support, and service utilization mirrored these needs. Overall, the mean (SD) cost per member per month was $2225 ($1586).
Meaning The findings of this study of a pilot program highlight a critical need for housing supports among Medicaid members and offer lessons for design and implementation of similar programs, including a key insight on the necessity of cross-sector collaboration between health care and housing organizations.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834358
This is really interesting if you care about abortion, IVF, or women’s healthcare.
“Yet like abortion, IVF also involves embryo death. Approximately 63% of embryos created in IVF in the US are discarded outside a uterus,1 and depending on patient age, 56% to 90% of frozen embryos transferred into a uterus perish before a live birth. (The subcategories in “discarded”—destroyed, did not survive thaw, and indefinitely frozen with no plans for future use—are not quantified.1 A small number are also donated for research or to others pursuing pregnancy.)”
Rethinking the Ethical and Legal Relationship Between IVF and Abortion
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2834393
“Gender and Career Milestones of Mid-Career to Senior Medical Faculty Who Held Career Development Awards”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2833835
Yeah, idk about this one.
It seems to me it’s more likely that reducing migraines reduced the symptoms that led to the patient being labeled depressed, than this medication helping depression by itself.
It would be great if it helped with depression in itself, but I know for a fact that because of my chronic illness when I answer those depression screening questions honestly the symptoms of my chronic illness make that screening in indicate I have depression when I absolutely do not. I have an energy limiting neurological disorder. And migraines lol
“Fremanezumab for the Treatment of Patients With Migraine and Comorbid Major Depressive Disorder
The UNITE Randomized Clinical Trial”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2833452
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