#Disease

Off-topic, but in recent weeks I've been reminded of a fascinating lecture I once attended by someone who was multilingual about the ways we talk about illness in different languages—English
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1/6 Our case series and systematic review on Gastroduodenal Tuberculosis, an uncommon form of GI TB is now online at @tandfmedicine . #tuberculosis Key points in the thread belowhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17474124.2020.181
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75 years ago today British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. They found 53,000 prisoners, the majority of whom were emaciated and suffering from disease.Watch and share our film to mark
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People are outraged by this headline. Meh. Having been treated to thousands of headlines featuring some variation on this hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, recession, disease, etc., is “God’s punishment for homosexuality,”
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Dr. Klimas’ #MECFS treatment recommendations, part of her #LongCovid presentation today to Body Politic #longhaulers organization. Link to watch her talk (this slide starts at 56:36): https://youtu.be/yXnUW4HpJNs  She mentions that
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Seriously please do not turn The Caretaker into some weird online challenge. IT'S NOT A MEME. IT'S NOT SOME TEST OF ENDURANCE.IT IS A REAL DEPICTION OF A DEADLY DISEASE
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The Influenza Global Pandemic of 1918-1919. Á ò rí’rú eléyì rí, a fií dé rù b’omo ni; unprecedented is just a word, there’s really nothing new under the sun! In
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The lockdown should be both a wakeup call to the Northern region, and an opener to the Southern region.Two months of each region keeping to themselves in Coronarvirus lockdown, thousands
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I was reading about psychological well-being from an Islam perspective and it’s so moving to see the prominence placed on being in touch with our emotions. We’ve created a culture
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1. I honestly think we need to re-evaluate our current approach to Covid and extreme measures. The large New York data set allows us to study it much better.
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I’m going through some atlases & by the 1970s they were literally pasting edits over the old 1950s atlasThe result is spooky; there are entire “ghost neighborhoods” *just* visible beneath
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1. The early use of inhaled interferons is emerging as a promising strategy to prevent severe #COVID19: lines of support include mechanism, rare genomic variants, a multicenter retrospective report, and
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For the people who are ridiculing staying home. *this is not about health repercussions*- once you are out you are of course at a risk sply in red cities like
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I feel like Sisyphus right after he loses his grip on the boulder. People are finally coming around the realization that high-volume screening of asymptomatic people is a powerful tool
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Very important question: Is it possible to eliminate COVID-19 and if so, how long it takes?New simulations by @Agent_Jase & colleagues for AUS & NZ: It is possible and likely
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I don’t want to sugar-coat how fucking painful, confusing, devastating and lonely it is to cut off a connection with someone. Even if you know they’re bad for you, it
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