#Disease

The Gay Burn Book

SouthernHomo

So many of my COVID-19 patients right now have chronic kidney disease. COVID-19 worsens this, causing acute-on-chronic kidney failure, and some will die from this. Did they die from COVID-19

ICL Black Doctoral Network

ICLBlackDocNet

We begin our journey with Deyl Djama (@DeylDjama), a PhD student from the Department of Life Sciences! Deyl is interested in how the brain works in health & disease. He

Joy Bhattacharjya

joybhattacharj

Saikat Sengupta, an anaesthesiologist from Calcutta, has written a superb piece on why he's modelling his behaviour during this epidemic on how Sunil Gavaskar faced a hostile attack in a

Sarah Ackley PhD

SFAckley

I'm deeply confused by the so-called herd immunity (aka herd mentality) strategy. I don't just mean that I think this is a bad idea, but I think this strategy is

Mildred Bay

bay_mildred

I wonder how often severe COVID disease in healthy young adults is due to undiagnosed IgA deficiency? Elevated IL-8 may be a biomarker for both IgA deficiency and severe disease.

Vikram Deshpande

Vik_deshpandeMD

1/Inspired by the guru @smlungpathguy here's my first tweetorial. What do you guys think of this submandibular salivary gland? But wait for it - I'm in a generous mood, 3

Telegraph Global Health Security

TelGlobalHealth

Approximately 90% of India’s 500 million-strong workforce are employed informally, living hand to mouth, day in and day outAs the country's Covid-19 crisis continues to spiral, thousands of them are

Paul Young

DogICUma

In NZ there has been no community transmission of #COVID19 for 66 days & the last case associated with a cluster recovered 28 days ago. We have had 22 deaths

Julia Marcus, PhD, MPH

JuliaLMarcus

For decades, the @WHO has defined health as more than just the absence of disease. But epidemiologic research typically focuses on disease and risk factors, not health and health assets.New

Haru⁷ ᴺᵒ¹

MONOCHlLD

This disease has existed since 1970’s. First exposure to it happened already. Approximately only 100 of known victims to the disease have been checked and lost their lives at the

Carlos del Rio

CarlosdelRio7

Today marks 5 months from the date China notified @WHO of an outbreaks of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan. Since then 6.2 M cases and > 300K deaths have been notified

File411

File411

Every time Trump pushes his “magic cocktail” you are PUTTING LIVES IN DANGER & violating the public’s trust.4/8/2020 re hydroxychloroquine and azithromycinGuidance from the American Heart Association, the American College

Andrew Noymer

AndrewNoymer

Convalescent serum: the new hydroxychloroquine. Convalescent serum has a long and successful history in fighting disease.But that doesn't mean that it will necessarily succeed for *any* disease.It needs to be

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Vitorzeee

to anybody worried about the #bubonicplague nowadays it's treated with antibiotics, lowering the death rate to around 11% (compared to a 60% death rate without any treatment), also basic hygene

Madelaine Hanson

MadelaineLucieH

Why do I have a problem with digital ID cards when 'FaCeBoOk oWns EvEryThINg?' Because I know what this looks like in real life and you should too.(thread) 1. Let's

Jennifer Cabrera

jhaskinscabrera

.@GovRonDeSantis asked @MLevitt_NP2013 to talk about PCR testing.Levitt: " It’s important to point out that PCR testing has never been used widely on this scale, and you can do a