#MEDICINE

COVID Update October 24: I spent the day reviewing data with & from the White House team in the spread of COVID-19.The latest rush of new cases is very concerning.
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1/11 Why is it important to account for race and ethnicity when working with a genetic disorder, infectious disease, pharmaceuticals, or therapeutics? B/c genetics determine our biochemical response. Here is
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Ok. There are a ton of great articles on WHY scholars should join Twitter, but most don’t offer an in-depth HOW-to.This leads to hesitation and timidness.So, I present a thread
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Thread -Dolores CahillI've been seeing this person used a lot as an argument for validity of the far right view that the pandemic is fake, overstated, and is a ploy
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How divination is like psychotherapy: a thread on healing, culture, and colonialism. (This thread jump off from my previous thread on how colonialist academic psychology denigrates astrology and divination as
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My take on TXA in TBI following an excellent review by @Kumait_Allawati @SameerSharifMD @Bram_Rochwerg & colleagues. disclosure I'm a co-author Study objective? What is the efficacy & safety of TXA
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Liquid and Tissue Biopsies: Comparing and Contrasting(A Thread )Last week, you voted for this topic to be discussed. Feel free to comment, criticize, and critique!https://twitter.com/sbarnettARK/status/1296530370977058818 1/ Tissue biopsies
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If this emerges as a consistent finding, it will be time to look deeper for answers. "The coronavirus seems to disproportionately kill African Americans, according to the few states providing
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Here’s a very good news story. New studies show the Pfizer-BNT vaccine works incredibly well, including against the South African variant (the most immune-evading variant known).But the second dose is
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Eminem has been sitting right at the top for over two decades and has given us some of the greatest music the genre has ever seen. Another legend is blessed
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Sometimes, it feels like some films deserve better fortune. Completely ignoring this over-rated/under-rated stuff that leaps in vacation time on Twitter., I'm now talking about a film that has offered
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I would like to inform #MedTwitter about a problem regarding #Essure coils, the women suffering because of them, the mistrust of doctors its caused and more importantly the spread of
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1/ THREAD: VIP PatientsWe can't let patients buy special treatment. It privileges the white & wealthy.In residency, when I wouldn't provide unwarranted treatment, a “VIP" patient brought me to tears,
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Storbrittannien ändrade radikalt sin covid-19-strategi efter en serie rapporter från Imperial College London, särskilt https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2020-03-16-COVID19-Report-9.pdf. Rapporterna baserades till sto
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This curious movie credit posted by @johnfeath reminded me how much I like Q-ships, so here’s a dive into one of the weirder ways navies wage war.Put simply, a Q-ship
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28 August 2013 - The day when our brave men undercover conducted one of the boldest and most shameful operations ever recorded in Indian history. Why shameful? I'll come to
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