#Ncbi

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Flu pandemics recur reliably but unpredictably every decade or so, and their extent and intensity varies. With COVID19, we may be in midst of a once-every-50-years event, perhaps similar to

Muhammad Ariff

AriffShihab

1.@PresRajapaksa Has given his speech and pretty much told the #Muslims of #SriLanka to shut up and accept his decree on cremation.Thread 2. Never in the history of pre colonial

Robbie Daulton

robertdaulton

1/ COVID may have stolen the headlines, but bacteria haven’t gone away. Strep Pneumoniae, Strep Agalactiae (GAS), & Strep Pyogenes (GBS) are as mystifying as ever. Let’s roll our sleeves

Andrew S. Jarrell

lifeasjarrell

Hey #medtwitter #psychtwitter #PharmICU - I know phenobarbital for alcohol withdrawal is cool again, but at @HopkinsMedicine we've been working on some things with boring old benzos that I want

Alexander Chaitoff

AlexChaitoff

Just finished a long stretch of nights @BrighamMedRes, so perfect time for a #MedTwitter #Tweetorial on what I was paged for most - antipsychotics for delirium.Executive Summary: avoid antipsychotics for

Dr. Khalid PhD 🇧🇳☪️

TenMillionIQ

They turned this meme into an actual study, which is now curated on the US National Library of Medicine. Cannot make this up https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6183933/ Another study on this on what

Jordan Kharofa

kharofaJ

Short #tweetorial on issues related to toxicity in oncology trials. How do we conclude Tx A is more/less toxic than Tx B? Room for improvement when you look at how

Steven Buccini

stevenbuccini

My father is one of the most culturally out-of-touch people on Planet Earth. He's also a gastroenterologist so he heard about Boseman's passing through a clinical lens. Here's a summary

Lauren Heathcote, PhD

LCHeathcote

1/5 What people with #cancer can teach us about surviving the #coronavirus pandemic: a thread 2/5 Earlier this week @picardonhealth published this @globeandmail article Core takeaway: people living with &

Neon Bag

PunishedBag

Amygdala thread 3.0 - The "no" clusters.Why do the enemies of humanity want specific parts of your brain to shrink and calcify?Why do moderns always want you to "relax" and

† Ady Betambeau

adybetambeau

I've been saying since operation warp speed was launched, and the race to make a vaccine in record time begun that this vaccine would be used to harm people.I wasn't

The Notorious EEG (M. Scott Perry MD)

TheNotoriousEEG

We frequently say that in people in the US will develop #epilepsy in their lifetime. This is a staggering statistic that highlights the importance of #EpilepsyAwareness, research, and

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

Assuming Colin's concern is with the relative lack of conservatives in the academy, I'm afraid he's doomed. To see why, it's helpful to zoom out and get a sense of

Todd Miano, PharmD,PhD

Miano81

2nd time in 2 days. Study in a major journal that is concerning for immortal time bias. This time, @NEJM:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2005396?query=RPI can't stress this enough: if a study compares Tx. vs.

Payton J. Jones

paytonjjones

Another paper out on whether central symptoms in networks are relevant to treatment. A (critical) thread to follow.https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01740-5 The authors operationalize the problem as "doe

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

Get up to date with genetic engineering of INSECT based VIRUSESEmerging Technologies for Low‐Cost, Rapid Vaccine Manufacture (2018)https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/biot.201800376 1/ X Right it's Death by Insect Thread Time