#SYMPTOMS

Observation. Since moving into the neurological disease field, I've found that many (reviewers!) feel that animal models need to precisely phenocopy human symptoms to be 'valid'. A brief thread on
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Tactics used by quacks to sell their pseudoscientific concepts and oil:1. Modern medicine has no cure for your condition.- Ignores the fact that some disease is incurable/beyond cure. They
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Patients are often referred to me because they have a hip labral tear. However, the real problem they have is typically #HipFAI, which caused the labral tear. Here’s a belly
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More nonsense about trans healthcare:Blockers are apparently bad because they're also used for cancer, or for chemical castration of sex offenders.They're specifically used for androgen sensitive prostate cancer. Basically, blockers
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You shouldn't have published this @bmj_latest I'm glad Paul has recovered, but this is promotion of dangerous pseudo-science. I expect better from a Professor of medicine (especially someone involved with
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What is #autism?A thread. Please share as my mission is to raise awareness and acceptance. There are a lot of myths and misconceptions around autism - this is something that
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"THE MALE G-SPOT"Usain Bolt would have lost to this man with the way he ran, he practically ran into the hospital panting and sweating...What could make a man in his
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A few comments on endpoints for COVID vaccine trials. For regulators, the main question when considering effectiveness is whether the vaccine reduces the risk of symptomatic COVID.https://twitter.com/ProfMattFox/status/1340662431115309060 B
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On the public vaccinations of Pence, McConnell and other GOP officials and whether it could close the partisan divide in vaccine hesitancy documented this week by @KFF.https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/18/world/covid-19-coronavirus#pence
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Why I headcanon Rina Tennoji as Autistic!A thread: Before I get started, here’s a few disclaimers1) This is a headcanon, and it’s not something I say is 100% a fact.
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1/ Lots of news lately about #LongCovid. It will get more frantic as new data comes out. Some physicians with huge platforms talk about "not running too fast!"The medical narrative
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Carnage in our Care Homes 1: Little Mountain. Staff are being blamed but the real villains are BC health authorities who refused to test them promptly when the outbreak began.41
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In arguably one of the most controversial U Turns since Nick Clegg on Tuition Fees...I have bought back more than I sold in #AVCT After a lot of recapping/further analysis
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News of the day: inhaled budesonide can keep people with COVID19 out of hospital. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.04.21251134v1 Small, but blindingly effective study using an off the shelf, cheap, widely used drug to
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Last week, the US Capitol had a huge problem which has since been overshadowed: @US_FDA flagged that the @Curative #COVID19 PCR tests it had been to screen entrants had more
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Yesterday I teased that I had something I wanted to discuss in its own thread. A significant life development in 2019 for me, personally. THIS IS THAT THREAD.If you a
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