Gregg Gonsalves
I work @Yale focusing on operations research/epidemiology for infectious disease. In the real world: been an AIDS activist for ~30 yrs. Asst Prof YSPH.
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A Medication-First Approach Can Blend Harm Reduction and Ongoing Treatment As Needed to Save Lives - IRETA |
In 2009, the World Health Organization advocated for a “medication first” approach to the treatment of opioid use disorder. Ten years later, in the midst of an unprecedented number of …
Gregg Gonsalves
In 2009, the World Health Organization advocated for a “medication first” approach to the treatment of opioid use disorder. Ten years later, in the midst of an unprecedented number of opioid-related deaths, the idea is still marginal in America.
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Thread by @clancynewyork: Warning: followers, mute me now. I'm just going to be RT'ing the outrage about the National Archives' actions. Speaking as an archivist and…
Thread by @clancynewyork: Warning: followers, mute me now. I'm just going to be RT'ing the outrage about the National Archives' actions. Spearchivist and as a person who took risks and spent years documenting human rights abuses this can't stand....
Gregg Gonsalves
Thread by @clancynewyork: Warning: followers, mute me now. I'm just going to be RT'ing the outrage about the National Archives' actions. Spearchivist and as a person who took risks and spent years documenting human rights abuses this can't stand. [NARA f…
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I co-founded Occupy Wall Street. Now I'm headed to Davos. Why? | Micah White
Rejecting Davos is easy when one hasn’t been invited. Now that I have a chance to go, I want to discover its revolutionary potential
Gregg Gonsalves
OMG, this is such strange self-parody. "There are many Davoses at Davos...I am going to find the hidden Davos." Yes. So, hidden. It's in an alternative universe. That doesn't exist. Sob. @beingMicahWhite
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Muilenburg, Fired Boeing C.E.O., Will Receive More Than $60 Million
Dennis A. Muilenburg, who was ousted last month, forfeited stock awards worth some $14.6 million, but he is still contractually entitled to receive other benefits.
Why Black doctors like me are leaving academic medicine
Racism was a key reason I left my job in an academic medical center. These centers must recognize and rectify racism's effect on the health care workforce.
Thread by @ChrisMurphyCT: Every day of the trial, I'm going write a twitter thread and Facebook post giving my read on the day's events (and some behind-the-scenes vi…
Thread by @ChrisMurphyCT: Every day of the trial, I'm going write a twitter thread and Facebook post giving my read on the day's events (and the-scenes vignettes) in order to make sure the trial is as transparent as possible. 1/ So here we go: 2/...
Gregg Gonsalves
Thread by @ChrisMurphyCT: Every day of the trial, I'm going write a twitter thread and Facebook post giving my read on the day's events (and the-scenes vignettes) in order to make sure the trial is as transparent as possible. 1/ So here we go: 2/ The vib…
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Ilhan Omar Warns Progressives Escalating Warren-Sanders Disagreement Only Fuels Trump's Attacks on Both Candidates
"Let's stay focused on the task ahead: defeating Donald Trump in November and fighting for the America we deserve."
Gregg Gonsalves
Ilhan Omar Warns Progressives Escalating Warren-Sanders Disagreement Only Fuels Trump's Attacks on Both Candidates - go.shr.lc/2FT7nVy via @commondreams
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Remembering the Original AZT Trial
I'm going back 24 years to recall a significant event in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Gregg Gonsalves
For #ALS comrades who are interested in the "real" story of the original #AZT study, my old doctor Joe Sonnabend tells the story. He kept more people alive than any of those early drugs. Including me!
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Projected costs of single-payer healthcare financing in the United States: A systematic review of economic analyses
In a systematic review, Christopher Cai and colleagues investigate the projected cost impact associated with a single-payer approach to health insurance in the United States.
Gregg Gonsalves
#PLOSMedicine: Projected costs of single-payer healthcare financing in the United States: A systematic review ...
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The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the ‘Brexit Election’
The simultaneous embrace of markets, and of rules and regulations, represents the soul of what’s sometimes called “centrism.” It’s a decidedly unlovely combination. Nobody truly likes it. But the talking classes had reached an absolute consensus...
Grant Targets "Perfect Storm" Threatening Lives
Yale School of Public Health Assistant Professor Gregg Gonsalves has encountered many challenges fighting the HIV epidemic over the past 30 years. What he sees now has him as concerned as he has ever been.
Innovation Award Showcases Strength of YSPH Modeling Unit
A third member of the Yale School of Public Health’s Modeling Unit has received a prestigious federal innovation award, bolstering the unit’s position as an international leader in modeling science in the field of public health.
Needle exchanges help combat the opioid crisis. So why was the one in Orange County shut down?
A needle exchange fight in California shows the kinds of hurdles these programs can face.
Postmarket Safety Events Among Therapeutics Approved by the FDA
This study describes withdrawals, boxed warnings, and safety communications affecting pharmaceuticals and biologics approved by the US Food and Drug Administration between 2001 and 2010, and associations between characteristics known at the time of...
Shale drilling activity linked to increased sexually transmitted infections in Texas
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health have found that rates of two sexually transmitted infections (STIs), gonorrhea and chlamydia, are 15% and 10% higher, respectively, in Texas counties with high shale drilling activity (“fracking”),...
Gregg Gonsalves
Shale drilling activity linked to increased sexually transmitted infections in Texas m.yale.edu/dkd via @YaleSPH
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Characterizing expanded access and compassionate use programs for experimental drugs
We sought to determine the characteristics of “expanded access” and “compassionate use” programs registered in ClinicalTrials.gov and to determine the percentage of drugs provided through these programs that ultimately ...
Gregg Gonsalves
Characterizing expanded access and compassionate use programs for experimental drugs
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