#Medicine

This is breaking news that is BIG at many levels!Germany's BioNTech has signed a manufacturing deal with China's Fosun to make 1 billion doses/yr of the BT/Pfizer mRNA vax in
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How to vaccinate Southern Manitoba: (a long thread) Don’t shame and blame.Don’t call us the Bible Belt.Assume there are more vaccine hesitant folk than anti-vax folk. Aim for the hesitant
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This is music to my ears. ‘ Chronic neurological diseases are the leading cause of disability globally. Yet, our health-care systems are not designed to meet the needs of many
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If you're a biomedical researcher, take some time this #IndigenousPeoplesDay to (re)acquaint yourself with the fight for Indigenous sovereignty, equity, and justice in biomedical research. Here's a thread of some
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In Xi Jinping’s China, nationalism is taking a dark turn. With a push from the government, angry mobs online swarm any perceived disloyalty to the country. “China cannot return to
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Islamic history is full of famous women scholars, scientists, and teachers who defying the odds shaped their intellectual worlds.A thread- Sutayta al Mahmali was one of the great mathematical minds
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Hello #MedTwitter!I've been thinking about how pervasive #telehealth is and will be in the future due to COVID-19. And especially (hi! have we met?) about how to prevent harm to
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Mini thread: Death, Nurses and taking Care of Clinicians. /1 One of the hardest things a healthcare provider can experience is death. Either your patients pending death or that of
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THREAD This important and timely proposal on genomics is now 90% funded thanks to your generous support. We would love to get to 100% to start the research. See the
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Would you rather thread. 1. Would you rather be rich and ugly or broke and attractive? 2. Would you rather be rich and lonely or poor but have a good
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This article touches upon many of the concepts we have been thinking about over the last few years. How do we evaluate vaccines/therapeutics during public health emergencies? RCTs are tricky
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COVID Update September 23: The assault on older people from COVID-19 is quite serious.It pales in comparison to the assault on seniors from Trump. 1/ We all know COVID preys
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1. As we can see from this video, not everyone out there protesting wants to destroy property's or attack police. Not everyone is an anarchist or anti-government like some people
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An extremely rare and symbolically potent astrological configuration happens for two and a half days beginning on 4 November 2020: the rulers of each cardinal sign will be present in
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Was a privilege for us to host our friends and tech-forward oncologists @pbcancerdoc and @sumitshahMD for a podcast about how parts of #oncology care are changing and going virtual with
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The question is, where did this second wave come from? When everything seemed to come back to normalcy!Let's see the chronology.1. Till Feb 21, all seem 2 b wonderful. Malls
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