#Biomedical

Folks in biomedical academia, especially public health: Please stop inventing exceptions for your own fields. We recognize stress and overwork as serious health problems. OUR workers are not an exception
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"Health is a human right"First, we have to consider who is included in (and reciprocally, excluded from) the category "human."Then, we have to interrogate whether "rights" are understood in terms
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“Just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID], the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for
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Very excited to unveil a white paper I’ve been working on: “The American biomedical research enterprise in a post-COVID-19 world”. http://rescuingbiomedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Report-Final.pdf 1/ This was a months-
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Just read BPS report 'Understanding depression'. Here is my first reaction to it with combined depression researcher, clinician, and person with lived experience hats on. I like highlighting of social/environmental
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Been thinking about Mr. Freeze and how he's absolutely a working class hero: He worked for a company that cut research funding for a cure for a rare and severe
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Hey #bioethics folks, what #ASBH2020 sessions are you excited about? [self-promotion completely encouraged] Here are some of the panels I'm excited about:"The Pen or the Sword? The Current U.S. Immigration
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If you're a biomedical researcher, take some time this #IndigenousPeoplesDay to (re)acquaint yourself with the fight for Indigenous sovereignty, equity, and justice in biomedical research. Here's a thread of some
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Programme on #LongCovid on @BBCRadio4 this morning. Treatment unlikely to involve a prescription for medication; instead work with a physiotherapist and psychologist. Patients better start getting used to self-management and
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A visionary project: Pakistan’s first foreign engineering university, the Pak-Austria FachhochschuleIt is the first university in Asia (& possibly in world) in which 8 leading engineering universities in Austria &
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As a 1918 flu scholar, I think it's insanely important to point out (now esp. given Dr. Fauci's statement today about "back to normal" by the end of 2021) ...
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UnprecedentedNew England J. of Medicine rebukes Trump"Our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans
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It's #MEAwarenessHourME is a complex physiological malfunction. It's not something that a person can cure themselves from. It is unrelated to attitude.It doesn't matter how hard a person tries or
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@Adamprice @Plaid_Cymru please read these comments from English Biomedical Scientists in regards to the mega labs that you want to mimic in Wales.https://twitter.com/gayatrichohan/status/1253008645144616960 These are hardworking, dedicated, professio
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Thread of FREE introductory resources on Mad Pride, Mad Studies and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement — Follow the numbers for a comprehensive course on the area, & check out the
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Memorial Day is different this year--as we remember the Veterans, 3 cemeteries come to mind. This is the American Cemetery in the Ardennes, where my Dad was deployed in WW2
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