#Therapies

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

Some thoughts from planet science at this point in the pandemic. The first thing to note is that science is the exit strategy (@JeremyFarrar's great pithy phrase) - clinical science

Phil Yin

YinPD

THREAD 1/15: The 26Mar2020 #MGH grand rounds was an excellent summary of #COVID19 pathogenesis, respiratory management, exploratory therapies, and developing science. Worth listening to in entirety, but summarizing some key

Adam W Gaffney

awgaffney

For years, we have had mixed data on whether steroids were beneficial or not in ARDS. Now, there is evidence — not yet in paper form — from a well respected

Jim Woodgett

jwoodgett

1/ There’s a lot of press about new initiatives to support Covid-19 research. Emphasis is on speed and quick turnaround of ideas to results. Understandable as the world is on

Samira Farouk, MD, MS, FASN

ssfarouk

1/As kidney replacement therapies (KRT) have become a strained and limited resource during the #COVID19 pandemic, here is a quick #tweetorial on how these treatments work:What is the main mechanism

Jeffrey Flier

jflier

Just did virtual rounds @bidmchealth with Dr Francesco Blasi, who runs a major COVID program in Milan, and a major pulmonary authority. First, I encourage all of you to seek

Justaname2u

justaname2u

Idea Thread $PMVP:Summary – Biotech focused on the development of mutant-selective P53 small molecule re-stabilizers. TP53 = most freq. mutated gene in human cancer. Lead program targets Y220C-mu, present in

Molly Hunter

mollymhunter

Researchers, scientists, public health experts told me the same thing: we can't just sit around waiting for vaccines. (Yes, multiple!) There are 165+ vaccines in development. (Great!) There will likely

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

Relative to where the government was at the time of the first lockdown in March, it seems much less enthusiastic about 1) doing what is necessary to stop the virus

Tits McGee

Scientits

Good, realistic piece here on preclinical trial data for the Oxford vaccine.https://www.biocentury.com/article/305211 This part especially: “Setting expectations could be as important as creating vaccines and therapies. Vaccines wil

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periodofperiod

Plan for HA:As we mentioned in our earlier post, the primary driver for HA is thought to be stress, whether that’s mental, social, and emotional stress, or physical stress from

Alice Bennett

AlicePonderland

Mental Health Awareness Week, mental illness and me: a thread It is Mental Health Awareness Week. Schemes like this are well meaning but can make me uncomfortable as I think

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

Thread on POTUS therapies: Being asked about mab cocktail from Regeneron and remdesivir and what it means? I think a key point is that use of antiviral drugs, if they

Scott Gottlieb, MD

ScottGottliebMD

It is deeply unfortunate that we head into Fall without enough doses of this drug. Many of us were talking about this as early as March. Regeneron did extraordinary work

NurseKelsey (she/her)

nursekelsey

Patients with COVID don’t get better in a linear pattern. They don’t get suddenly ill then slowly improve like most diseases.They get deathly ill, barely survive, improve a little, decline

Tim Elliott

tim_tje

On #DayofImmunology, I’m looking back at an exciting step in the dissemination of scientific research for the benefit of the #immunology community: the launch of the 1st #OpenAccess journal of