I am excited to announce the launch of Yale Medicine's 'Long COVID Dispatches from the Front Lines with Lisa Sanders MD'

This blog has been my first major project in an editorial role and after a year of hard work it's finally come to life. Check it out:

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High-intensity Exercise Can Reverse Neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s Disease

Isabella Backman Yale Medicine Magazine

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Another day, another patient diagnosed with IC as a teenager who actually had endometriosis the whole time and was finally diagnosed at 30 years old.

I see this patient over and over and over and over and over.

In my mind bladder pain is endometriosis until I prove otherwise.

This👇. Sometimes women go without care too long, develop late complications or a serious fetal problem is detected late, but women don't carry a pregnancy for 8 months & just change their mind.
Abortion “until the day of birth” is almost never a thing
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Brain fog is a common Long COVID symptom. A new study rules out neuroinflammation & blood-brain-barrier dysfunction as likely causes.

'With more studies, we can start to eliminate some of the possibilities & zero in on others,' says Shelli Farhadian Yale School of Medicine
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“ #LongCOVID has taught the world that these #diseases are real... and we need to study them.” – Yale Center for #Infection and #Immunity founder Prof. Akiko Iwasaki on the new center’s vital #research mission. brnw.ch/21wE3Py

Teplizumab (Tzield®) helps preserve the ability of children and adolescents with new-onset type 1 diabetes to make their own insulin, a phase 3 trial finds.
Read my latest story for Yale School of Medicine:
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A new study explains why we remember emotional experiences better even when our acute stress response is activated.
My latest for Yale School of Medicine with Elizabeth Goldfarb
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We're hiring 2 full-time, year-long fellows to join the High Country News editorial team. Report, write, fact check – broaden our coverage of the West.
Proud that this position finally includes health care. Get the details & apply classifieds.hcn.org/denver/employm…

An FDA advisory committee unanimously concluded that phenylephrine, a common ingredient in decongestants, is no better than a placebo. There are other similarly ineffective drugs out there, researchers say.
Thank you to Harlan Krumholz Reshma Ramachandran and Joseph Ross
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So far, no treatment has been approved specifically for long COVID. And the syndrome is still an enigma to many researchers because of the sweeping physiological changes that accompany it. cen.acs.org/biological-che…

📣 ‼️HUGE NEWS: Yale University opens center for 👏🏻 CHRONIC LYME 😱, #LongCovid and #MECFS !

Thank you, Prof. Akiko Iwasaki & team!! 👍🏼❤️

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Mitochondria are more than just the powerhouse of the cell. A new study finds they also play a role in determining cell fates during embryonic development.
My latest for Yale School of Medicine
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'The leading decongestant used by millions of Americans looking for relief from a stuffy nose is no better than dummy pill' The Associated Press STAT ... & there are lots of them. I encouraged The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, when I was on the Board, to root out the many drugs w/ no benefit. It's time. U.S. FDA

This should be criminal.

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ME/CFS, post-treatment Lyme disease, & Long COVID can be debilitating, but diseases like these have for too long been ignored by the research community.

I spoke with Prof. Akiko Iwasaki about her new center dedicated to learning more about these conditions.
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September is #PainAwarenessMonth , a month to raise awareness of those living with pain, and how it affects the lives of millions.

Use the hashtag #RealPainStories to share your experiences in the ongoing conversation about #LivingWithPain and #ChronicPain .