Lisa Spear

Pharmaceutical companies lobby against state PFAS regulations claiming compliance chaos. Environmental advocates say most state laws align, the real issue is companies don't want transparency about forever chemicals in medications. f.mtr.cool/qnesvfhfnz

Could #narcolepsy brain fog—including issues with sustained attention, memory, and planning—have its own pathophysiology? Take a look at my recent article in @SleepReview to learn more: sleepreviewmag.com/sleep-disorder…

"While we are still learning about the specific effects of COVID on sleep, we do know about what happens to sleep with other viral infections," says circadian researcher @GemmaPaechPhD. Read more here: buff.ly/3bzkWfD. #medtwitter

A recent review of 15 years of sleep research in animals and people suggests that the folk concept of sleep as something that can be saved up and paid off is bunk nyti.ms/3HVWyBd

🚨I wrote about immunocompromised people—what they’ve been through, their frustrations, and their hopes. This is a plea to think about those who don’t get to be done with the pandemic, and to prioritize them as a matter of moral and medical urgency. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Only in the United States could the government run a public health campaign centered on fears of large, unexpected medical bills.

While it's very difficult to find cheap rapid covid tests in the U.S. right now, the United Kingdom provides 14 tests per person free of charge. 📝 : @rachanadixit and @hnorms khn.org/news/article/a…

Millions of counterfeit N95s made it into hospitals and we sent apparent fakes to @ECRI_Org for tests. What their lead engineer found surprised him. My latest via @NBCNews and @KHNews: nbcnews.to/2OujJuI #COVID19 #MedTwitter

Almost one in five people who have had covid-19 go on to be diagnosed with a mental illness within three months of testing positive. Anxiety disorders, insomnia, and dementia were the most common diagnoses. bit.ly/35PftMv

Pfizer says it will have enough covid-19 vaccine to immunize only 20 million people by the end of the year, raising questions about who will get it. bit.ly/2UsCUog

With as many as 500,000 spinal-cord injuries yearly world-wide and strokes becoming more common among younger patients because of Covid-19, the need for brain-sensing advances is huge, neuroscientists said wsj.com/articles/tiny-… via @WSJ

“We have found that the sleep you’re having right now is almost like a crystal ball telling you when and how fast Alzheimer’s pathology will develop in your brain." Via @sleepdiplomat sleepreviewmag.com/sleep-health/s…

The discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing complex, recognized with the Nobel Prize, has ignited what even scientists allergic to hyperbole routinely call a revolution in how science is conducted. buff.ly/34Dndzg #CRISPR #NobelPrize

@ecutts_PB @PB_News @JMolseed You were always a star, even before street view.

Nothing #amazondevices announces in a couple of hours will match this genius

Astronauts at the Mir space station experience marked shifts in #sleep architecture compared to baseline, and some of these evolved over the mission buff.ly/2G0vIvW

Star-shaped brain cells may hold the key to why, how we #sleep news.wsu.edu/2020/09/24/sta…

The Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that it would require a new warning label on a class of common psychiatric drugs, called benzodiazepines, to better warn the public and health professionals about the serious risks of abuse and addiction. nyti.ms/303u6Ze