#Trials

Brad Langford

BRxAD

Is there a role for vitamin D in preventing or treating #COVID19? Our team @PublicHealthON reviewed 54 studies on this topic. Here's the rapid review:https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/he/2021/02/covid-19-rapid-re

Alan Irvine

irvinederm

Why has the UK changed its vax regime to prioritising a single shot, going outside approved regimen for Pfizer (delay second shot) and commencing AZ, also with up to 12

Sterghios A. Moschos

DocMoschos

Kevin is conflating clinical trial design & outcomes (on which he is inexperienced) with liability to a for-profit business operating under non-profit conditions, to regulatory monitoring & post-EUA decision making.

Swapnil Hiremath, MD, MPH

hswapnil

Today we have @DrRonWald from St Mike's presenting on "Phosphate control in the dialysis population: Settling the controversy" at @OttawaRenal Nephrology Grand RoundsFollow along as we live tweet Dr Wald

Geoffrey P. Johnston😎🇨🇦

GeoffyPJohnston

“We will defeat COVID-19,” Dr. Peter Singer, special adviser to World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told the Whig-Standard in a FaceTime interview from WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Anant Bhan

AnantBhan

THE VACCINE DILEMMAThe government has announced an intent to go ahead with vaccination as of 16th Jan 2021 with both Covishield and Covaxin. There is going to be no choice.

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—wow—WHO just recommended **against** the use of @GileadSciences’s drug remdesivir in hospitalized #COVID19 patients, citing “there is currently no evidence that remdesivir improves survival or reduces need for ventilation i

🌾🍄Amaya: Animist Astrologer & Folk Witch 🍁🥀

feralvenefica

The Moon is currently conjoined fixed star Regulus, so what the hell! Let's talk about the 4 Royal Stars of Persia. 1/too many, frankly, but fuck it! this is good

Paul Bleicher

pbleic

1/ Everyone’s talking about RCTs, but I am guessing that it is a bit of a vague concept for many non--medical folks. Here's a quick but longish look at a

Carly Weeks

carlyweeks

We don’t even have a #COVID19 vaccine & so many have already declared they will never get one when available. This isn’t a surprise, given how much anti-vaccine sentiment has

Shelagh McKinlay

ShelaghMckinlay

Thread: This is really disappointing news. We always hope for a "yes" first time round and especially for this treatment where patients have been waiting far too long already. But,

Lakshman Swamy

laxswamy

Common sense uses limited info to make assumptions that fail in complex systems. 'Common sense' has always butted heads w medical science because science is not easy to understand and

aoifelenny

aoifelenny

As a long time resident of Germany, I’ve seen how a country can reckon with its dark past in a constructive way. And it’s not simply a matter of saying

Samuel Brown

DrSamuelBrown

I feel like I see trainee moral distress expressed in terms of an urgent need to have a "goals of care" conversation with the families (i.e., persuade them to stop

Speculator

TheSpeculator0

just finished this book over christmas/nye, would recommend. Also as much as the mathematical kelly stuff is interesting, most of the effort of Thorp and co was on actually finding

Pippa Crerar

PippaCrerar

Deputy CMO Jonathan Van Tam insists the new vaccine trials will be thorough regardless of the urgency.He tells a No 10 briefing: "Standards are no lower despite this being a

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