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Dr Githinji Gitahi, MBS ⁦‪@daktari1‬⁩ A thread: Why Africa needs ownership of its health security 👇🏾 Despite ⁦‪@AfricaCDC‬⁩ recording 10000 monkeypox cases & 600 deaths in 2 yrs (20/21), ⁦‪@WHO‬⁩ stockpiled vaccines were only mobilised when monkeypox was identified in far fewer cases and no deaths in rich countries in 2022 pic.twitter.com/SE2AVyEFhJ 6/18/22, 3:09 AMContinue reading “WHO ethics mpx vaccine access”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13300-022-01220-4 Joseph Thornton

https://www.psychnews.org/alert_post-AM2022_4f.html Joseph Thornton

Beverly G. Tchang, MD ⁦‪@BevTchangMD‬⁩ Here’s a visualization comparing* sema and tirze for #weightloss in ppl with #obesity or #diabetes My estimate of therapeutic efficacy goes like this, from least to most: sema 1.0 sema 2.0 tirze 5 ( = sema 2.4) tirze 10 tirze 15 pic.twitter.com/GV0w066KlY 6/14/22, 3:45 PM Joseph Thornton

Beverly G. Tchang, MD ⁦‪@BevTchangMD‬⁩ References: STEP 1: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… SURMOUNT-1: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… SURPASS-2: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… SUSTAIN-FORTE: thelancet.com/journals/landi… 6/14/22, 3:45 PM Joseph Thornton

Carlos del Rio ⁦‪@CarlosdelRio7‬⁩ ⁦‪@DrJudyStone‬⁩ A negative rapid test if you have symptoms means nothing. Assume you are positive if symptomatic. 6/14/22, 9:12 PM Joseph Thornton

https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/depression/predictors-of-suicidality-after-psychiatric-hospitalization/ Joseph Thornton

Michael Okun ⁦‪@MichaelOkun‬⁩ Not so fast when you diagnose rapidly progressing dementia. It is not always prion disease. Look at the blurry time course when comparing some neurodegenerative diseases. Hermann and Zerr had awesome review of rapidly progressive dementias ⁦‪@NatRevNeurol‬⁩ nature.com/articles/s4158… pic.twitter.com/r3Hf2Zod8k 6/14/22, 8:00 AM Joseph Thornton

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/metformin-in-treatment-resistant-bipolar-depression Joseph Thornton

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470399/ Joseph Thornton