#Mortality

Erin McCreary

ErinMcCreary

With the Jan 7th announcement of the @remap_cap IL-6ra results: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.07.21249390v2 and last nights @BMJ_Latest RCT drop: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n84let’s talk about tocilizumab [threa

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Concerning the SARS-CoV-2 variants that were first identified in the UK (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), and Brazil (P.1), their specific mutations focus on altering the fitness of the virus by

Rupert Pearse

rupert_pearse

An update from ground level across the UK NHS. Things are very different to March. UK COVID-19 projections continue to look more like a ‘slow burn’ than a second wave.

Vivek Subbiah, MD

VivekSubbiah

By popular demand The Top 10 clinical publications in Oncology in 2020 (In no particular order). Some important papers bundled + Additional 5 more papers representing major advances in the

Hawkeye 🌊

DontDeflect

Facebook post from a doctor at a university hospital. She works in the Covid unit. She wrote this as a way to express her feelings about school reopenings, based on

Veera M. Rajagopal

doctorveera

Interesting GWAS of human ageing based on PCA analysis of multiple ageing phenotypes (mother and father life span, longevity etc.) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427837v1 As I often recommend, here too effect size plot

Architects for Social Housing

9thfloor

For @Piers_Corbyn in solidarity and protest at his arrest. 'During the Weimar Republic in the mid-Twentieth Century, more than half of all German physicians became early joiners of the Nazi

Awais Aftab

awaisaftab

A bold & timely step by Sir Robin Murray: Psychological Medicine (edited by Kendler & Murray) publishes an article by Bob Whitaker on antipsychotics & mortality, along with a commentary

Nelly Tells

NellyTells

Govts put corona infected into care homes as policy. Govts introduce previously illegal euthanasia protocols Very few seem to care in a society that said we would accept martial law

Colin Angus

VictimOfMaths

The headline figure from today's new @ONS all-cause deaths data is (mildly) good news. Deaths were slightly lower in the week ending 27th November than the previous 7 days.BUTThe decline

Dr Dan (the bandaged man)

docdanz007

Day 2/3 concussion thread:Day two and another bunch of things I have learned. I felt great yesterday. Good enough to tweet at least. Today, well, not so much.https://twitter.com/docdanz007/status/1294789886860382208 I went

Charlie McVeigh

charliemcveigh

Putting my neck out there: here's my forecast for how CV plays out. This is based on a combination of press reports, gossip and, yes, wishful thinking. /1 On or

MGH IM Residents

mghmedres

1/@HawraAllawati (senior resident) here! Current fellow/MGH res alum @the_tjroberts & I found ourselves checking off an infamous task at 2 AM[x]swing special slideThis inspired the following ! Follow along &

Cate Eland

RomancingNope

I don't know if I want to live in the US anymore. This place is the sweaty, dingleberry-encrusted ass crack of the world. Nothing but m/billionaires hacking away at the

Nayan Arora

captainchloride

When was the last time you were paged about a serum Cl- level? Probably never. Despite being the most abundant anion in the body, Cl- is under appreciated

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 135UCSF Medical Grand rounds today, available here https://tinyurl.com/y2tpw3h4 . If there could be such a thing as a “classic” set of topics in a pandemic that’s

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