We've recently been doing in-hospital Hep C tx starts (especially for patients with prolonged stays) and it's very satisfying! Very grateful to have a clinic pharmacy and Hep C champion team (nurses, pharmacists, etc) walking distance from hospital! 💜

Treating children with perinatally-acquired HCV earlier could increase life expectancy 📈and decrease healthcare expenditures 💵. Check our recent study out in JAMA Pediatrics jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… The Syndemics Lab MGH Medical Practice Evaluation Center (MPEC) MGH Division of Infectious Diseases Brigham and Women’s Infectious Diseases CHERISH #hcv #hcvelimination

Integrated Hepatitis C–Opioid Use Disorder Care Through Telemedicine jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… "Facilitated telemedicine integrated into opioid treatment programs resulted in significantly higher cure rates, with significant reductions in illicit drug use and minimal reinfections"

It takes a village! 11 States. 25 Authors. Fueled by the spirit of collaboration and a joint interest in increasing opportunities for HIV & HCV testing for PWID doi.org/10.1093/ofid/o… Ellen Eaton Martin Krsak Laura Marks Ayesha Appa Kinna Thakarar (she/her) Matthew Akiyama, MD, MSc

Each congenital syphilis case is a failure of our fractured healthcare system, which is particularly bad in the US south -- and exacerbated by factors such as substance use disorder, unstable housing, and poor prenatal care. Should be "never" events. doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

Some fascinating data and discussion surrounding time spent on #OPAT care and ways to get paid in the advance Clinical Infectious Diseases Main article: academic.oup.com/cid/article-ab…

Wow! Appreciate the recognition of IDs contributions to preventing and managing complications of substance use. There should be no wrong door.

A newly published commentary by MPEC fellow Megan Rose Curtis and colleagues reviews a modeling paper that projects strategies to meet the WHO's HCV elimination target by 2030 in San Francisco. Madeline McCrary Laura Marks Mass General Research Institute pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38833775/

Calling all syndemic teams! Tommy Brothers Megan Rose Curtis Ayesha Appa Ellen Eaton Emma Kay, PhD, MSW Nathan Nolan, MD MPH Shilpa Vasishta Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor Carlos del Rio alice thornton Wendy Fujita David Serota Leah Harvey, MD MPH Simeon Kimmel MD, MA asher schranz

This is going to be a game changer, especially in a state like MO where we don’t have a PA for DAAs. Excited to offer patients a true test and treat model of care for HCV! fda.gov/news-events/pr…

PICC Your Poison: Resident Beliefs and Attitudes Regarding Discharge Parenteral Antibiotics For Patients Who Inject Drugs ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/3RRBUZ0

Learn about our faculty involvement in bringing Healthcare to the Streets internalmedicine.wustl.edu/bringing-healt…

Come join me, Laura Marks Nathan Nolan, MD MPH Megan Rose Curtis at Washington University ID Division! Plenty of ID/SUD! Clinic this wk: - patch induction + DAA - hand infxn on 💊, started DAA & f/u high dose bupe start last wk - checked SVR from inpt DAA start (cure!), high dose bupe start - discussed DAA in🤰

After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a

It is baffling to me why one of the best medical educational podcast accounts on X was suspended Free #CurbsidersSUD

So excited to hear about Ayesha Appa inspiring Avenir Award: Extended Release Naltrexone as Opioid Overdose #PrEP. Kudos Ayesha 🎉 . I can’t wait to learn from you! nida.nih.gov/about-nida/org…

HCA drove Mission Hosp into the ground. Even after leaving NC, I hear from friends, and before from pts, how a great hospital was stripped for parts. For-profit entities have no place in medicine. Hope UNC Health buys HCA out. W NC deserves better. wfae.org/2024-07-29/mis…

🚨 Help us make a list! What are your fav educational OPAT resources for patients or providers? 🙏 #IDtwitterx #TwitteRx #IDxPosts We are trying to make a list of all the best outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy resources. Some up for review so far:

🚨NEW PAPER🚨: Since 2022, our Zuckerberg SF General Hospital & Trauma Center Opioid Treatment Program OTOP has been offering rapid methadone inductions for people using fentanyl. We just published on outcomes from the first year of implementation: journals.lww.com/journaladdicti…