#Diagnostic

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

What causes false-positive PCR test results?@ClareCraigPath @PanData19 1/nhttps://pandata.org/a-miscarriage-of-diagnosis-dr-clare-craig/ 1) Choice of subjects: testing asymptomatic individuals is akin to giving men a pregnancy test. 2/n 2)

Hans Zandvliet

hanszandvliet79

Kijk. De wetenschap zit gelukkig niet stil. De huidige manier van testen is onjuist om besmettelijkheid vast te stellen. Weer een tegenvaller voor hen die ons op grond van 'besmettingsgetallen'

Christos Christou

DrChristou

When I was working as a surgeon in #South Sudan, a family brought their terrified child to the @MSF clinic. A venomous snake had bitten him on the arm. Despite

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

Detailed assessment of the new UK #SARSCoV2 variant by @WHO scientific team: https://www.who.int/csr/don/21-december-2020-sars-cov2-variant-united-kingdom/en/Key points in thread. 2/ The @WHO takes a global view:"One of the mutations i

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

To save society from this virus, we need to focus on daily fast #COVID19 tests. These are more critical now than even vaccinesForget the headlines! These are not less accurate.

Amy Pearson

DrAmyPearson

New paper with @DrSHodgetts on whether lateralisation can explain language and handedness diffs in autism.Short answer: we dont know.More important q: should we care? Very mixed feelings about this paper:

Dr. Purvi Parwani

purviparwani

Here is the detailed tweetorial on this debate. Predominantly the first part in favor of stress #whyCMR.Follow along. did you know that the FFR was validated with ETT/SPECT/DSE in 45

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, there has been an unparalleled scientific effort to characterise the virus and the clinical course of #COVID19.What have we learned so far about #SARSCoV2, how

Noah Halpin

Noah_Halpin

THREAD: So under the guise of COVID, where they assumed that no one would notice, the psychiatric team at the National Gender Service have began insisting that ADULT patient‘s parents

Jake Wintermute

SynBio1

People I’m through the looking glass on poop DNA privacy. Follow me down the rabbit hole if you dare. Your typical bowel movement contains about 20 milligrams of DNA, of

Dan Larremore

DanLarremore

Preprint: Viral surveillance testing is crucial, but not all surveillance strategies are equal. We modeled the impacts of test frequency, assay limit of detection, test turnaround time, measuring impact on

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

1/ re: @2plus2make5 et al’s paper on machine learning to improve x-ray as diagnostic tool for knee pain - Another great !I’m RTing specifically bc indirectly shines light on the

Dr Mark Guthridge

Dr_M_Guthridge

1/ How neglected is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome research?@NIH funding for ME/CFS in 2017 was ~$25millFair funding relative to disease burden should be ~$350millThat means #MECFS research was short-changed

Carlos

CarlosCrits

If you have ADHD & this list scares you let me be the first to tell you: I love your stories, that leaf deserved it, you got snacks, it can't

Nelly Tells

NellyTells

In 2020, 1,315,667 very old &/or very sick people died just like every other year, except that this year a test (I can’t even call it a diagnostic test, because

lapsed solipsist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 אנטיפה

LpsdSolipsist

Alright, I'm reading this rubbish Yale study with y'all, but we're gonna focus on metrics and jargon bc that's my favourite way to demystify and dismantle research conclusions (I'm not

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