#Obesity

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

Now this is a covid antibody test! Not only looks good on its face w/ 100% sensitivity (likelihood of seeing antibodies if they are there) & 99.8% specificity (not seeing

Dr Michelle Kelly-Irving

shell_ki

Did you know that when you use biomarkers & other clinical tools to identify patients for treatments, those tools may also partly capture social factors & conditions experienced across the

Andrew💙Croxford

andrew_croxford

NEW THREAD: «Recent endemic coronavirus infection is associated with less severe COVID-19» The thrust of the paper is that if you had previous exposure to endemic coronaviruses (eCoV) and catch

Dr Ruth Tapsell

RuthTapsell

A thread about covid & how improving our metabolic health might helpI'm an NHS GP with an interest in T2 diabetes.It's been clear since early in the pandemic that people

Audrey D. Zhang

AudreyDZhang

Happy @US_FDA #VRBPAC briefing material release day for those crazy people like me who celebrate:https://www.fda.gov/advisory-committees/advisory-committee-calendar/vaccines-and-related-biological-products-advisory-committee-december-10-202

Yoni Freedhoff, MD

YoniFreedhoff

Yesterday saw the @NYTimes’ @gretchenreynold cover a recently published study about exercise and weight loss. The headline? To Lose Weight With Exercise, Aim for 300 Minutes a Weekhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/well/move/to-lose-weigh

Karen Vaites

karenvaites

Beautifully-written articulation of the progressive take on #openschools:Keep schools closed: It’s a social justice imperative.Do it for labor rights, and in solidarity with Black families.It’s so well-written, you almost miss

André Jefremow

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A #MedTwitter Tutorial about Acute Pancreatitis #GITwitter #ICU @DeMadaria @KM_Pawlak 1) Only measure lipase once! 2) Diagnosis: 2 out of three: 1) Lipase >3xUNL2) typical belted abdominal pain3) typical image

Jillian Hurst

hjillianh

SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study | medRxivhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.18.20166835v1 A prospective cohort study evaluating #SARSCoV2 exposure

Dr Jen Unwin

jen_unwin

Sugar addiction thread 1/18The man or woman in the street might say ‘I’m addicted to chocolate’, for example. It seems broadly accepted by ‘the public’ that what we put in

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update July 27: Someone you know compare COVID-19 to other illnesses?Want to see how COVID falls in relationship to other conditions? 1/ There are 4 things to know:How you

Friend of the Talking Bird

DrugGovoruna

About 40 people suddenly followed me. Let me briefly write down my political positions. I have done it before, but it is a good idea to do it once in

Omnintensivist

GoodishIntent

Live tweeting #HRreloaded tonight! First up is COVID intubation and what we've learned from those who faced COVID before us.Hoo boy there was some drama regarding who should be intubated.

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

An explainer thread (often I feel I am pitching these to journalists as much as anyone else) on COVID this month. Context: I am an expert in one area (human

Fatima Tokhmafshan (she/elle) 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

DeNovo_Fatima

Moderna #Vaccine safety & efficacy: overall #Vaccine efficacy against infection with #COVID19 = 94.1% (means a vaccinated person has 94.1% less risk of getting COVID if exposed to the

Chris Brosnahan

ChrisBrosnahan

Okay, let's talk about how the government's obesity plan is only really exercising ways to blame people and avoid the real issues, shall we? Boris Johnson's 'inspiring' video about him

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