Naveen Reddy MD
@nreddy92
Neurologist and NCSP Fellow at @UCSF | VA Scholar | Passionate about accelerating fundamental healthcare reform| All views are my own.
I’ve prescribed the new Alzheimer’s drugs. Here’s what I’ve seen, what I worry about, and what needs to change. "On the Frontlines of the Fight Against Alzheimer’s" from Op-Med. Read on @Doximity opmed.doximity.com/articles/on-th…
And so the sprint to delete USAID on grounds of waste and ideological bias also sent its own bigger message: that soft power is not really power at all, only a shackle restricting the exercise of the harder and more old fashioned kind. nytimes.com/2025/02/12/opi…
What in the world....
Cat ownership is associated with a 2x odds of developing schizophrenia. 🧵1/10
Interesting.... This means they confer some form of evolutionary advantage.
This is a neuroscientific model of a near-death experience. 🧵1/11
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Advanced blood-based biomarkers will change the way the diagnostic apparatus defines pathology, and ultimately, the human body. My article in Frontiers explores the consequences of these new technologies through the gaze of Foucault. frontiersin.org/journals/socio…
Confirmed! Grimes is a Hegelian.
I disagree, I think we haven't yet discovered god. Quantum physics and such things make a higher power seem very real, even if it's not yet conscious or it's mind is literally ours - an unintelligent designer slowly self assembling into an intelligent one
"after hospitals were acquired by private-equity firms, Medicare patients were more likely to suffer falls and contract bloodstream infections; another study found that if private equity acquired a nursing home its residents became eleven per cent more likely to die."
“2024 was arguably the year that the mortal dangers of corporate medicine finally became undeniable and inescapable.” newyorker.com/culture/2024-i…
I don't disagree but are you willing to strong-arm Big Pharma into lowering their prices?
Musk pitches weight-loss drugs to lower health care spending ow.ly/ZovW105RjsP
CADASIL was the disease that the main character in last year's 'Fall of the house of Usher" suffered from.
A 59 year old patient is brought to clinic by her family for cognitive decline. They want to start her on lecanemab She has a history of hypertension and migraine. On exam she has mild executive, attention, and memory impairment This is her imaging. What would you do?
This is VITAL. GLP1 agonists would sink Medicare.
Unless Medicare demands that Big Pharma substantially reduces the prices for anti-obesity drugs, Medicare premiums for all seniors will skyrocket. We cannot allow Medicare and Medicaid to simply be a cash cow for Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.
Our negotiated drugs are STILL wildly more expensive that other countries despite the IRA. Smh 🤦♂️
US taxpayers need to stop subsidizing Pharma corporate profits: Medicare pays 2-4x more for meds than any other developed country pays; this remains true even after the Inflation Reduction Act allowed Medicare to negotiate prices of top-selling drugs. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
More people in SF need to understand this.
Important to remember what Obama had to say about Silicon Valley getting involved in government
One of the best conferences Ive been to 👏
📢Tremendous thank you to @NCSP_UCLA for hosting an amazing Annual Meeting. Grateful for the opportunity to connect and learn alongside such inspiring individuals. Looking forward to next year!💫@nationalCSP
A great thread describing the modern process of disease mongering
From pre-diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease in the cognitively normal, there is an ongoing push to label healthy individuals as sick. Who benefits from this and who is harmed? One of my favorite med journalism articles of 2024 dives into the debate. 🧵 1/4 latimes.com/science/story/…
"El Movimiento es Vida" - Brad Pitt in World War z
From pre-diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease in the cognitively normal, there is an ongoing push to label healthy individuals as sick. Who benefits from this and who is harmed? One of my favorite med journalism articles of 2024 dives into the debate. 🧵 1/4 latimes.com/science/story/…
Can a blood test predict Alzheimer’s before symptoms even begin? In my latest article for @statnews, I explore how these promising tests could change diagnosis and treatment
The ability to possibly detect Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms emerge using blood-based biomarkers has introduced new clinical and ethical challenges. trib.al/ZjZbI3z