If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.

We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

This is VERY telling.

New to #BlueSky and interested in following people who treat and study movement disorders?

#NeuroSky #MedSky #AcademicSky

Link (not exhaustive): go.bsky.app/F4ZDiMh

Our network meta-analysis:
#DBS of the #subthalamus worsens falling in #parkinson's

No positive/negative effect of pallidal stimulation or intestinal #levodopa

Newest subcutaneous levodopa or foslevodopa pumps improve falling, a first in advanced treatments!

jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl...

Q: Do abnormalities on MRI of the lower back correlate with current and future back pain?
A: Hardly at all.

Important new population-based 6-year German cohort study. I don't know the authors but I thought it deserved a thread.... 1/...

Fantastic summary figure of molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's by Shaheen and colleages in Nature Parkinson's. MicroRNAs: small non-coding molecules regulate gene expression. Bind target messenger RNA molecules and promote degradation. They can also block translation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...