#Treatment

Dave Blake, PhD

_stah

There is an obvious concerted push to promote the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, again. Once again, a reminder: promotion of off-label use of drugs is illegal and highly actionable.

Erik Reinbergs, PhD

ereinbergs

While I'm at it, let's talk about suicide monitoring software that school districts use: This software sends an alert when students enter keywords on their school computers related to

Josh Barocas, MD

jabarocas

Really important work going on for the emerging epidemic within the pandemic: methamphetamine use disorder. Brief Study for some efficacy of bupropion + naltrexone (13.6%) v placebo (2.5%). @NEJM. (Brief

Crystal moth

Prolapsarian

Public service announcement thread explaining some public health concepts the British Public don’t understand1) Testing: The purpose of testing is to find out who has the virus. This information can

Kelvin Odense (Not Odanz)

MrOdanz

I hope the US and others are seeing the reaction of Nigerians to the arrest of Hushpuppi and gang.Majority of us are happy he's been arrested and wish that more

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

drsanjaygupta

We’ve reached another sad milestone in this pandemic. The US has surpassed a record of more than 60k Covid-19 hospitalizations for the 2nd consecutive day. (1/12) But there is some

Johannes Haushofer

jhaushofer

Here's what I think it means that the new @pfizer/@BioNTech_Group vaccine has an effectiveness of 90%. They define effectiveness as VE=100*(1-IRR), where IRR is the infection rate ratio, i.e. the

scrutable

jon23399797

These "my lab without immigrants" pictures are fascinating to me. The basic frame you have to accept is that vital research is getting done. But, really, there haven't been major

Sara A. Carter

SaraCarterDC

I hope you don't mind me asking this question. For four years, many of us exposed what happened to @realDonaldTrump and the American people - bureaucrats within the FBI, DOJ,

Keith Rubinstein

KeithRubinst

Remember: A leading cause of cancer is cancer screening. I'm being serious. Some found cancers would have regressed on their own (or simply never progressed), not to mention false positives.

Kourtney Branagan

KourtBranagan

1/ In the summer of 2018 an agitated man walked into the Beakerhead offices I was working at. He asked for the bathroom. At this point I could see my

worry! at the college library

bluxbaerry

people are freaking out but : its normal bcs viruses evolve, the vaccine should still be working and if doesn't (which would be exceptional) we have a better understanding of

Mahesh Kumar, IFS

mahesh_kar

Around 60 hrs of intense leopard rescue operation followed by another 16 hrs of treatmentGr8 feeling of satisfaction after seeing this 5 sec video when leopard found her way back

Jaclyn A. Siegel

jacasiegel

Today is the first day of (the first ever!) Eating Disorders Awareness Week in Ontario, so I want to share a little bit about what eating disorder recovery is like

Jane Bernal 🌈

SJaneBernal

Expecting the Unexpected. When death is expected, people can plan for it, think about what care they want when dying, where they might die, make a 'bucket-list', use Palliative Care

Le Canard Noir

lecanardnoir

Thread.A number of new psychiatry papers in the BJPsych Bulletin have been published in the UK challenging the assumptions and evidence base around affirmation treatments for gender dysphoric children. 1/

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