Mastodawn

Names Are Overrated Jul 3, 2023

Is my brain thoroughly boiled or does this mean the #biotech industry are the ones with the initiative & pleading for resources for #LongCovid research, when it should actually be governments (because they supposedly care about their people) begging them (biotechs) to do it?!

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/its-not-been-easy-biotechs-stress-need-additional-funds-efforts-treat-long-covid-persist

'We beg you': Biotechs plead for help and funds to find long COVID treatments

Behind the unrelenting challenges of long COVID, which leaves many of the disease’s sufferers with exhaustion, sleep problems and brain fog, is just a handful of biotechs trying to drum up interest | Biotechs are pleading for help to develop new treatments for long COVID, as the U.S. moves past the pandemic. Patients and advocates worry they're being left behind.

Fierce Biotech

Names Are Overrated Jul 3, 2023

@suntour in terms of this, I’m fine… the problem is that being fine cost me my return to London (had to go fully private in Paris, no health insurance accepted) & now I’m stuck in a place where A&E doctors can’t tell UTI from acute appendicitis, GPs “don’t believe” CT scan results (don’t ask, too awkward) & an “urgent” lumbar puncture (spinal tap) takes >5 months (& still counting).

Names Are Overrated Jul 3, 2023

I live in a country of bureaucracy-addicted sociopaths (#France). How does anyone expect someone whose brain is getting cooked inside the skull (#encephalomeningitis fever) & can’t move because they have a catheter shoved into their spine to drain fluid regularly for to (even if I were suicidal enough to be still in FR), go out collecting papers (french institutions love paper) & distributing them around to prove whatever they want me to prove illness-wise? Just be nice & f*ck off, will you? Ta.

Names Are Overrated Jul 2, 2023

July issue of @BrownHospMed’s journal:

https://bjhm.brown.edu/archives/2023-2/july-issue/

#medicine

July Issue

Editorial Physician Wellness in the Changing World of Hospital Medicine KWAME DAPAAH-AFRIYIE, AARON WHEELER Brown Hosp Med 2023 July; 2(3):2023. DOI: 10.56305/001c.77558 Original Research Telehealth during COVID-19: Perspectives on Usability…

Brown Hospital Medicine

Names Are Overrated Jul 2, 2023

Larry always spot on [for those who don’t know him, he’s the number 10 (British PM residence) cat - and the sanest “person” inhabiting it over the last few years. He even has a job: official mouser].

#larrythecat #elonmusk #stupidity

Names Are Overrated Jul 2, 2023

Two interesting reads on #MDR (multi drug resistant), #XDR (extended drug resistant) and #PDR (pan drugs resistant - yes, those for which there are NO #antibiotics) #PseudomonasAeruginosa.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.1128/cmr.00031-19

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8960490/

#amr #antibioticresistance #antimicrobialresistance

Show thread

Names Are Overrated Jul 2, 2023

@marsaeternum los hay pero… en Twitter. Y claro, hablan para gente “normal”, no hablan de temas científicos de una manera detallada. Es como si fuera un poco más alertar que las cosas existen que explicar, para eso tienes de buscar su trabajo fuera de las redes sociales. Perdón pero no tengo mucha oportunidad de hablar y menos de escribir español…

Names Are Overrated Jul 2, 2023

From @badmedicaltakes… makes for an interesting script for some seriously weird porn… #biology #physiology #humanbody #wtf #peopleareweird

Names Are Overrated Jul 2, 2023

This sounds brilliant… must definitely read more about it!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834442-500-tumour-dwelling-microbes-a-startling-new-frontier-in-cancer-treatment/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1688023787

#oncology #oncologyresearch #cancer

Tumour-dwelling microbes: A startling new frontier in cancer treatment

New research shows that tumours are home to a rich ecosystem of bacteria and fungi that influence cancer progression - opening up incredible new ways to fight the disease

New Scientist

Names Are Overrated Jul 2, 2023

Is Vancomycin 3.0 available (approved for use in humans) already? #antibiotics #infectiousdisease #healthcare