Angela Falk, 🇸🇪 EM 🩺🚑

"After [Texas] made performing abortions a felony in August 2022, the number of blood transfusions during ER visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54%."

Cornell Student Who Faced Deportation Says He Left the U.S. Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. student who had been suspended by the university after participating in pro-Palestinian protests, said he “took the decision to leave the United States.”

A British-Gambian Ph.D. student at Cornell University who had faced possible deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian protests said on Monday that he had left the United States. “I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high,” he wrote on social media.

Real chilling effects A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.

Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

YouTube video by Crosscut Films Danish PM Mette Frederiksen Speaks About Ukraine

A speach worth listening to.
Mette Fredriksen, PM of Denmark about standing strong with Ukraine
youtu.be/Ht0H4DeBwDI

Sofia Mirjamsdotter: Det är ingen nyhet att SD är farliga för Sverige Efter ett par år med Tidöavtalet är det inte längre mycket som förvånar, men det betyder inte att vi ska sluta förvånas, eller sluta reagera. Tvärtom är det viktigare än någonsin att fortsätta ifrågas...

Sluta inte förvånas och reagera.

www.vk.se/2025-02-19/m...

#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social

An end-to-end #deeplearningmodel that is highly capable of identifying significant atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries, using #coronaryCT
Interpreting⏱️
Physicians 20 min
The model: seconds!
The need for manual
labeling and annotation is minimal!
#Sahlgrenska #EM
Paper: tinyurl.com/bd3zzwcv

Han kanske mördade 11 SFI elever för att han är rasist. Troligare orsak än autism.

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump began his term with presidential actions including 26 executive orders, with more expected to follow.

This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions.
Email tip: lte@justsecurity.org
www.justsecurity.org/107087/
#emedsky #politics

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

www.justsecurity.org/107087/

“Despite the data freeze, wastewater was updated today, and now shows the predicted drop in rates that I've been talking about. Modeled to today:

🔸375,000 new infections/day
🔸~1 in 89 currently infected
🔸Midwest still above other regions

And, on this week's edition of #BlueSky #MedSky

Why hasn’t someone rebelled and leaked the missing issue of MMWR this week? Courage, scientists! Courage! Fight back!!!! 🧪

The Boundaries Longitudinal Study Interdisciplinary research project funded by the Swedish Research Council and the University of Edinburgh.

This is an ongoing study in Sweden regarding Doctors thoughts about being required by law to report refugees.
Healthcare got excluded. I would be scared for community decease spreading and a larger cost if immigrated patients were too scared to seek health care.
boundaries.study/about-the-st...
#EM

Trump Wants Snitches to Report on DEI. There’s Just One Problem. Donald Trump wants people to expose diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the federal government. The idea is already flopping.

The Trump administration’s anti-DEI snitching plan is getting flooded with fake reports after it tried to strong-arm federal workers into ratting out their colleagues.

Wow! US health care is insane.

Yes, definitely. And could be applied to other fields aswell!

Predicting troponin biomarker elevation from electrocardiograms using a deep neural network Background Elevated troponin levels are a sensitive biomarker for cardiac injury. The quick and reliable prediction of troponin elevation for patients with chest pain from readily available ECGs may p...

#news "The model exhibited clinically meaningful performance, notably its high negative predictive accuracy"

"Clinical use of comparable #AI in first-line, quick-response triage of patients with chest pain or dyspnoea appears as a valuable option" #emedsky #medsky
openheart.bmj.com/content/11/2...

AI literacy framework

Here is a framework for a course on AI literacy for students. Many thanks to those who commented on an earlier version on LinkedIn. Do continue the discussion here - additions, emphasis? #ai #education

Cook et al came up with a new study with a clear AI focus. A dataset has been built to train language models on climate misinformation, so that they can better identify the wrong steps in the argument. This is an automation of important components of critical thinking. 💡👌 #ai #fact #climatechange

Yes! For the baby/kids 2 times daily from you see the first tooth.

We don't have fluoridated water in Sweden🇸🇪, but we have generally good oral health thanks to good routines and regular dentist visits from 3y of age.

Just an FYI for anyone who hasn’t delved into the depths of RFK Jr. insanity, here’s his web site claiming that polio is a toxin and not a virus.

Part 2

This is enjoyable 😘

5 helpful rules about how to teach residents. EM
#emedsky #medsky #STutbsky

The impact of vaccination on preventing long COVID in the Omicron era: a systematic review and meta-analysis Millions worldwide are living with long COVID. Since therapeutic research is ongoing, long COVID prevention is a pragmatic public health strategy. While prior analyses have shown the benefit of primar...

New study finds that a booster vaccine lowered the risk of long covid by 26% versus no vaccination & 23% vs primary course vaccination. Study funded by BioNTech.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#MedSky #MedTwitter #BlueSky 🧪 #IDSky #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky
#MedEd #fmsky #pedsky #publichealth

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Åh nu kan jag inte rätta. Ska ju vara januari 2021 🤦‍♀️

Interesting difference in health cultures.
In Sweden 🇸🇪 first dental visit is at 3 y (paid by tax). The water isn't fluoridated.
Routine: Brusch with childrens toothpaste morning/night. Only water in between meals. And all 🍬 is eaten at weekends.
Healthy meals in preschool/school, paid with tax.

Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths The heartbreaking story of Amber Thurman was first reported in ProPublica earlier this year

Georgia is using leaked reports as an excuse to replace community health oversight professionals with anti-abortion extremists.
meidasnews.com/news/georgia...