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Brendan Camp, DO, MPH
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anatomic & clinical pathology pgy-4 @BIDMC | interests in autopsy, laboratory medicine, public health, MedEd, research, advocacy | future forensic pathologist | views are mine |👨🏻‍⚕️🔬☠️🧪🧫🦠🌈
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A bit of positive news today. FDA has just approved Lenacapavir for PrEP in the US. In clinical trials one injection every 6 months was close to 100% effective in preventing HIV transmission.
PrEP is for everyone who needs it.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...
FDA approves new twice-yearly HIV shot. What to know
The FDA approved Gilead's HIV prevention drug lenacapavir, a twice-a-year injectable medication that clinical trials show prevents new infections.
www.usatoday.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Delighted to share our recent publication on the state of Pathology Student Interest Groups in U.S. medical schools. Our study highlights current practices and proposes strategies for enhancing student involvement in pathology.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40031955/

#Pathology @clilleymd.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Great read. Medical students have to first come out as pathologists to their faculty physicians (you’re so great with people, why??) and then subsequently come out to our own as future forensic pathologists (perceived less prestigious government job)

thepathologist.com/issues/2025/...
What’s Wrong with Forensics?
Is stigma harming recruitment in forensic pathology? Pathologists and medical students share their experiences
thepathologist.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Shout out to the person who took this beautiful gross photo of a clear cell renal cell carcinoma invading a large renal vein branch in the renal sinus. A colleague’s case #PathSky
February 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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An 84-year-old man with a history of melanoma of the right forehead complicated by in-transit metastases to the scalp presented to the dermatology clinic. 1/4

#MedSky #DermSky #Oncology
February 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk"

To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky
How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.
jamanetwork.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Sickle cell trait ≠ Sickle cell disease

Sickle cell trait (SCT) has been used inappropriately in cause of death, specifically in deaths in custody

Forensic pathologists and autopsy pathologists must work/advocate to refute SCT as mechanistic rationale
🚨 No evidence links #sicklecell trait to sudden death or acute pain crises. It is medically inaccurate to claim SCT as a cause of death on an autopsy report.

🩸Learn more about the findings from ASH published in @bloodjournal.bsky.social: bit.ly/4jvGYi5

#SCD #Hematology #HemeSky #BloodSky
January 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚨 “We conclude that there are no data to support the diagnosis of acute vaso-occlusive sickle cell crisis as a cause of death in Sickle Cell Trait, nor does the available evidence support the use of SCT as a cause of exertion related death without rhabdomyolysis”

ashpublications.org/blood/articl...
Sickle Cell Trait Does Not Cause
Globally, an estimated 300 million individuals have sickle cell trait (SCT), the carrier state for sickle cell disease. While sickle cell disease (SCD) is
ashpublications.org
January 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Ever wonder what 'clock face' chromatin looks like? Look for blotchy, dark areas around a nucleus.

This feature, along with eccentric nuclei and paranuclear hof (pale area near the nucleus), are essential for identifying plasma cells in blood films, aspirate, and histologic samples.
December 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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A potential pitfall! #Yikes #SclerosingAdenosis mimicking #LobularCarcinoma
Always 👀 for myoepithelial cells which may have vacuolated cytoplasm. The last 📸 is smooth muscle actin.
#pathology
#pathsky
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December 12, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Urine drug screens are some of the most inaccurate tests in medicine, that even healthcare professionals frequently misinterpret or just don’t understand.

Yet we let nonmedical/nonscientific people in politics and law enforcement use them to punish people and even take children from their mothers.
nacdl.org NACDL @nacdl.org · Dec 11
End pregnancy criminalization! Hospitals reported women for positive drug tests after giving them drugs for childbirth: medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #lawsky www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/11/p...
Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 11, 2024 at 5:13 PM