#Acute

Austyn Gaffney

AustynGaffney

My latest longform: For over two years I’ve been interviewing Kingston coal ash workers; over and over workers talked about a rumor that radioactive material was dredged at the spill

Dr Sharon Rees

reesprescribe

New series; #theophylline was extracted from green/black tea leaves in 19thC; a natural derivative of the purine ‘xanthine’ & structurally similar to caffeine. Used 1902 as diuretic & since 1930s

Dr Philip Lee

drphiliplee1

NHS beds, an explainerhttps://twitter.com/PaulEmbery/status/1347585153212641280 Under normal circumstances, most NHS acute hospitals will have several types of inpatient areas1. Assessment unit 2. Specialty wards3. Intensive careAs well as

Mean Fat Girl- 🏳️‍🌈💄

Artists_Ali

Ending diabetes stigma is a part of fat politics If you are still making diabetes jokes about sweets or calling soda "diabetes in a glass" or blaming people with diabetes

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rebeca6169

"The thicker you paint, the more it flows." ~ John Singer Sargent #Botd 1856 was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation"

Aidan Baron

Aidan_Baron

Stroke Ambulances are an example of what Rev Père Lafontant often refers to as “appropriate technology”.“Do you know what ‘appropriate technology’ means?” He asks“It means good things for rich people

Henry Winter

henrywinter

David Dein invited 9 of us correspondents into Highbury board-room to meet #Wenger in 96. Arsene spoke for 50 mins, and we were spellbound by his attacking philosophy, belief in

Daniël Franke-Carlisle 🏳️‍🌈

ainmosni

1/x As many of us know, cognitive bias is a huge problem when hiring under-represented in groups in tech, this bias is subconscious and has been proven to affect all

Jamie Ford

JamieFord

Defund the police? Here's an example that you're benefiting from right now. 1/9 Until the 70s, ambulance services were generally run by local police and fire departments. There was no

Siobhán O'Neill

profsiobhanon

A thread from my evidence to #EducationCommittee this morning:It is biologically impossible for children to learn when they are in a state of acute stress or anxiety - & that’s

In The Belly

bellyzine

Pod-Seed || Experimental attempt at matching inside readers with outside supporters as pen pals If you're an abolitionist you need to be in touch with people inside, as our

Joel Smalley

RealJoelSmalley

Since July, coinciding with increased PCR testing, there is an unusual uniformity to the official regional COVID death curves that is not apparent in the regional excess death curves, strongly

Ari Melber

AriMelber

Many believe Trump's implausible lie that he won,"because it takes a tremendous amount of work to educate citizens to resist the powerful pull of believing what they already believe, or

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

Dorms are like cruise ships on land or prisons without bars: people living in proximity, in frequent contact, over extended periods of time. For many infectious pathogens, such settings are

Haidee Kotze

HaideeKotze

I’ve seen lots of indignant tweets on #AcademicTwitter about receiving review requests from journals over the holidays. Here are some reflections, from a journal editor (who is also an author,

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

CMOH_Alberta

Here is a summary of today’s #COVID19AB update: It is incredible that within 1 year of the virus being discovered, we already have a vaccine that’s 95% effective going into

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