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Let's be clear - The UK study trial of Dexamethasone is important.The early ventilation in Covid (as used in ARDS) produced bad outcomes - which is counter intuitive This is

Our report launched today shows Year 9 students across the South West of England saw a reduction in anxiety levels and increase in wellbeing during lockdown compared to before the

Today conlcuded the final session from @NIHR_RDSEM on applying for fellowships. Lots of useful tips for all stages of the pathway. Summarised some knowledge gems below. PersonConsider your 5/10 year

Another Angry Woman

At the very least, Lockdown 2 needs to shut secondary schools and universities for the duration.https://twitter.com/ONS/status/1322148487484657669 You know how basically all of Europe has gone through its phase of doing

(1/n) We gathered and analysed genetic and epidemiological data related to the #COVID19 outbreak in #Iran to gauge its size in late Feb - early Mar and estimate the likely

The first of the UK vaccine trials has started at the NIHR Imperial Clinical Research Facility @imperialcollege led by Dr Katrina Pollock. I’m involved in recruiting healthy volunteers and vaccinating

The accuracy of swabbing does not make sense. We're being told that false negatives are because swabbing is being done incorrectly.I've been swabbing patients since Feb so I'll start with

Margaret McCartney

GPs: reports that some are prescribing azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine to patients with suspected/confirmed #covid19 and who are being looked after at home. thread. this should only be done in high

Chiara Dall'Ora

So @BrianWebster18 tweeted a question I asked to @RCNScot students and NQNs yesterday night: “What do you think about 12-h shifts?”It triggered a Twitterstorm! I will try to unpack the

Sue Fletcher-Watson

**NEW SURVEY KLAXON**Most of my research chat on here is about autism, but I'm also involved in some fantastic work on #preterm birth. We are now planning the next epoch

Why that @prof_tweet modelling paper does NOT show that online triage increases GP workload, and what we can learn from it. THREAD@MinalBakhai @HelenRSalisbury @padsbigsis @mgtmccartney @keithgrimes @MartinRCGP @murrayellender @fhussain73 @

This morning is starting with a webinar hosted by @NIHRinvolvement about the new guidance for payment for involvement developed by the Centre for Engagement and Dissemination (previously INVOLVE payment guidance).

Just a few thoughts about why I support #FreeSchoolMeals based on my work as a clinical dietitian, academic and researcher1/15 Inadequate healthy food intake impacts negatively on health and wellbeing

I continue to hear a genetic relationship between ethnicity and #COVID19 invoked in both explicit and implicit ways among medical colleagues. In this thread I argue, in the race to

@BBCr4today invited me to speak about lateral flow tests this morning (can listen at 0650). All government plans are now about using tests to "release" people - this depends on

I'm tuning into this webinar about the impact of COVD19 on the medical research charity sector. Fascinating discussion so far about how the bioscience industry is getting involved in tackling