#Treatments

Nathan A. Pennell MD, PhD, FASCO

n8pennell

THREAD: I have heard a lot of self-righteous indignation about how we would be bankrupting the system with adjuvant targeted treatment for EGFR mutation+ NSCLC pts, so let's take a

Michael Simonson

msimonson19

1/ Just published ECT case study from a Louisiana hospital: Catatonic patient received 2 ECT sessions, which were then cancelled bc of the pandemic. Patient lapsed back into catatonia. Instead

Farmer Thor the Scientist ™️🇺🇸🚜

JortsAndCrocs

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

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri

vivekagnihotri

This exploitative, greedy, machine made system exists because we keep it alive. Do we keep it alive because we like it? We hate it.We’ve become a frustrated, angry society... angry

Ali Rogin

AliRogin

THREAD: I wanted to talk/tweet about the use of “fighting” imagery when we talk about cancer, and using the term “beat” to indicate success. It’s a topic I’ve been thinking

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ Why do doctors like me & @meganranney ask how high the POTUS' fever has been, if his O2 levels have been low, whether he's required supplemental oxygen? It's the

Celina Summers

CelinaSummers

As usual @ESPN Outside the Lines is a year late and ten dollars short. Blaming Pruitt for "firing" KOC (which isn't fired) for coaching staff (Butch Jones) interfering with athlete

John Mashey

JohnMashey

f1/ Trump keeps pushing people to (Hydroxy)Chloroquine. I’ve been collecting & annotating credible information from @UCSF experts on COVID-19, as it appears, in the subthreads ofhttps://twitter.com/JohnMashey/status/1245825681306431491 CV1-This t

skin that cares🌝

skin_herball

If you look at the image below, you will observe a darker pigment around the eyes compared to other areas of the face — they are called DARK EYE CIRCLES.

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

None of the studies of #COVID19 treatment use of serum taken from survivors (aka convalescent serum therapy) show positive results, & @US_FDA has stopped approving its use.But @realDonaldTrump will announce

Jennifer Brea🦒

jenbrea

Great rundown of the weird world me and my team @MEActNet have been living in the last three weeks as we tried to assess what threat this disinformation campaign posed

Ben Kentish LBC

BenKentish

Speaking to scientific experts and advisers today about the current state of play, they paint a pretty pessimistic picture about the options for lifting lockdown. Full details on @LBC with

John West 🕯

JohnWest_JAWS

Let's be clear - The UK study trial of Dexamethasone is important.The early ventilation in Covid (as used in ARDS) produced bad outcomes - which is counter intuitive This is

Sarah Joseph

profsarahj

1/ This is a massive story & good to finally see Aust media coverage.Patent waiver would not be a silver bulletin but imv is important normative step to doing what’s

Andrew Stolbach, MD, MPH

toxicologist12

My son and I went on a hike with a trained mushroom forager.This is a crumbling Amanita phalloides, aka “death cap”.The two main toxins are phalloidin, which causes diarrhea more

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

It's 1671 and John Gwin, a pillar of the community of Llangwm Uchaf, is the church warden. Fierce disputes have broken out and Gwin writes in his precious book of