#Dexaméthasone

Angelos Kolias

ag_kolias

A thread on the recently published #Dex-CSDH trial – aiming to cover many of the common questions that have been asked in the past few days.https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2020473 Chronic subdural haematoma (#CSDH)

Sub-Pharmacist🍏

Tobenna__

1. Paracetamol will work faster on an empty stomach.2. Eating oily food and taking malaria medication like the Artemether/lumefantrine will increase it effects.3. Don’t take NSAIDs (e.g Ibuprofen, Aspirin, Indomethacin)

Nick Mark MD

nickmmark

Exciting results from the #RECOVERY trial #preprint of #Tocalizumab (Toci) in hospitalized people w/ #COVID19-reduced 28-day mortality (29 vs 33%; NNT)-decreased likelihood of requiring MV (33% vs 38%)-shorter hospital stay

Eric Meyerowitz, MD

EricMeyerowitz

Thoughts on RECOVERY preprint: dexamethasone as treatment for COVID-19 @AaronRichterman https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.20137273v1 Is the finding of no

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

Today we are seeing tons of hype around the corticosteroid dexamethasone, prompted by this press release.It does indeed look like good news, but it is important to recognize the limitations

Ciarán Murray

C1aranMurray

So as I've been saying the Spanish "2nd wave" hasn't lead to deaths. That's because it's not really a 2nd wave. It's because testing around clusters is now so thorough,

The Meturgeman

HaMeturgeman

You can end the pandemic with 30 million doses of a vaccine by just giving it to hospital healthcare providers so they aren't too panicked by the idea of the

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Some very brief (It’s late!) comments on the recent results on hydroxychloroquine and dexamethasone 1/? Firstly – understanding the surgisphere debacle is relevant to publishing practices especially in the ferment

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

Let’s talk about the really good news out last week about dexamethasone (“dex” as we docs lovingly call it) to treat serious COVID19. And let’s also talk about rapid scientific

DrG

disneydoc911

So some thrilling news: An elderly male, diabetes, cholesterol who I admitted to the ICU 11.5 days ago with #COVID19 and #mycoplasma pneumonia, needing oxygen initially in escalating manner, up

Jim Edwards

Jim_Edwards

Hello! Here's my daily thread on coronavirus stats globally.Today:The US: VP Pence denies there is a "2nd wave". The stats show that's a highly misleading way to think about what

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Big news yesterday was the announcement by UK scientists that the steroid dexamethasone reduced deaths in ventilated #covid19 patients by a third. It was the kind of good news we

BBN

BigBiteNow

1/4I look forward to an interview and indeed the follow up data but in terms of results, at this stage, #TILS investors really couldn't have asked for more.Improvement in the

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE - Recovery trial results finally out - and hopefully puts nail in coffin. Out of 4700 people randomized... HCQ did NOT lower #covid19 mortality. It anything it was trending

NowThis

nowthisnews

COMMON DRUG REDUCES COVID-19 MORTALITY RATE: Officials from the World Health Organization hold a briefing on the latest developments of the global coronavirus outbreak.https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1zqKVeyrdyDxB Yesterday scientists and

Samuel Brown

DrSamuelBrown

Some thoughts about the RECOVERY-DEX preprint. First, some more clarity about why it stopped--it hit the target sample size. Oddly, no discussion about alpha spend or what the DSMB reviewed.

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