#Illness

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Ending diabetes stigma is a part of fat politics If you are still making diabetes jokes about sweets or calling soda "diabetes in a glass" or blaming people with diabetes

Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD, CDN, CSCS (she/her)

alissarumseyRD

DYK: the LOWEST risk of mortality is in people with a BMI of 25-29.9 (aka "overweight").Next lowest risk: a tie between people with a BMI of 30-34.9 (aka "obese") and

Julie Gunnigle

JulieGunnigle

On the campaign trail, @allisteradel indicated her disdain for “part-time prosecutors.” Today I learned that she has become one. A As a prosecutor, I was fortunate that I could

Julia Smith

cv19comm

I saw earlier the same ideas in this op-ed coming from Nate Silver and the data bros types, so I'm disappointed to see Marcus promoting this. This thread is going

Richard Zussman

richardzussman

I will start this thread to touch on the comments on the restrictions and the Q and A. #bcpoli Dr. Bonnie Henry says there has been a dramatic decrease in

Gravantus

The_Tabellion

Blessed Arseny of Winnipeg was born March 10, 1866. After his father passed, he heralded their sheep farm with his mother and 5 siblings.Recognized for his intelligence, he was granted

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

On the intensive care unit today covering a colleague who is unwell, so only time for a brief update this week. You may have seen a lot of coverage that

Jessica Diamond ♿ She/her

JessicaXDiamond

Thread on ableism in vegan communities. I asked the other day if people would be interested in this, and the answer was a resounding yes. I'd like to make some

Chris Edmond

chrisedmond

A few people have suggested I should respond directly to Professor Foster's arguments on #qanda last night rather than just saying I was appalled.I thought the other panelists did an

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Last week, a press released provided initial and promising results from a large scale trial of the corticosteroid dexamethasone in hospitalized COVID patients. Today the authors released a full report:

Jonas R. Kunst

KunstJonas

For decades, post-viral physical symptoms have been trivialized as psychological. Based on shaky empirical grounds, people have been left with CBT as their only treatment option. Now it is COVID19

Michiel Tack

MTackCVS

1) New article on severe ME/CFS by the researchers who manage the UK ME/CFS Biobank. They visited a cohort of nearly 100 patients housebound by ME/CFS and wrote down their

Carers of Dundee

CarersOfDundee

We have increased the e-modules on our Learning Portal to include Carers Wellbeing Journey We have three short online courses that aim to give tools, information, and resources to improve

Cleavon MD

Cleavon_MD

It's INHUMANE for the U.S. to allow MILLIONS to get infected from a deadly virus with known complications. On 12/12 Florida Gators star Keyontae Johnson collapsed on the basketball court.

Clay Jenkins

JudgeClayJ

NEW: Dallas County Reports 5,361 Additional Positive 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases and 1 Death Of the 5,361 new cases we are reporting today, 5,195 came from a large volume

C.L. Lynch

lynchauthor

Confused about person-first language? Is it acceptable or not? Here's a brief history on PFL and how it went from etiquette to ableism: #pfl #ableism #acutallyautistic In 1983, at the

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