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Audience for a Long COVID conference all wearing masks

This is what the audience for a Long COVID conference looked like today. Notice anything? 😷

Important public service announcement. Reading it might just save a life.

Schön, dass das alles einigermaßen stressfrei geklappt hat! Ist aber kein Thema für den Junior oder #Familylife, kann jedem überall passieren, speziell seit vielerorts erwartet wird, dass man immer den Pass dabei hat. Schönen Urlaub noch und Kopf hoch für Junior!

If COVID resulted in everyone getting harmless, untreatable, utterly gross pustules covering their entire face for weeks we wouldn't still be in a pandemic.

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

You have excellently put into words what I have thought for a long time. Congratulations for condensing the whole COVID disaster into one succinct thread!

Need for awareness and surveillance of long-term post-COVID neurodegenerative disorders. A position paper from the neuroCOVID‐19 task force of the European Academy of Neurology

Important paper by members of the European Academy of Neurology. "Healthcare systems should be aware of, and be prepared for a potential increase in the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases in the upcoming years." What has been the state of surveillance and awareness so far? #NeuroCovid

Scientists say it may be possible to protect aging brains from Alzheimer’s with an old remedy — lithium | CNN In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the h...

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the humble metal lithium.

Die COVID-Abwasserwerte sind aktuell minder erfreulich. Mehr Informationen auf covidanalysen.at

Assim como outros campos da ciência, a bioinformática enfrenta um obstáculo significativo: o fato de as mulheres serem minoria. | Instituto Todos pela Saúde (ITpS) Assim como outros campos da ciência, a bioinformática enfrenta um obstáculo significativo: o fato de as mulheres serem minoria. Este é um problema multifacetado, com raízes em fatores sociais e cultur...

Honoured to be part of a video series by @todospelasaude.bsky.social ‪‪about Bioinformatics! It's been wonderful to see more & more women come into Bioinf, as such an important & wide-ranging field - full of awesome & impactful projects!
#womeninstem

www.linkedin.com/posts/instit...

Screening Colonoscopy Yields Among Adults Aged 45 to 49 Years After Lowering the Colon Cancer Screening Age

Lowering the colorectal cancer screening age to 45 is supported by similar adenoma detection rates between those aged 45 to 49 and those aged 50 to 54, with slightly lower prevalence in the younger group.

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Photograph of the icy lollies recipe from The Royal Marsden Cancer Cookbook: Nutritious Recipes for During and After Cancer Treatment to Share with Friends and Family by Dr Clare Shaw

This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is the Ice Lollies – devised to be soothing for sore mouths – from The Royal Marsden Cancer Cookbook: Nutritious Recipes for During and After Cancer Treatment to Share with Friends and Family by Dr Clare Shaw:
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...

UPDATE:

Our living database now includes 1,267 controlled vaccine trials - 501 with inert (mostly saline) placebos - involving 9.36 million participants.

And MANY more studies to add.

Grateful to the incredible team making it possible. 🙏

Nachdem ich mir aufgrund dieser Empfehlung (Danke!) das Buch geholt habe, ein paar Gedanken dazu.

Es ist halt ein typisch amerikanisches Buch, das weniger im ultraneutral sachlichen Stil entsprechender deutschsprachiger Bücher geschrieben ist, sondern eine Art Essay-Sammlung zu diesem Thema.

Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis Although 10 000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a mor...

What's the optimal number of steps of physical activity this is associated with multiple (9) favorable outcomes?
The largest, systematic review of 57 studies, 35 cohorts.
7,000 steps is clinically meaningful, benefit also seen for 4,000 steps cf 2,000 steps
thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧵1/x Und auch hier noch einmal der Vollständigkeit halber:

#BioNTech hat nun mit deutlicher Verspätung auch selbst die Zulassung des aktuellen #Covid19 Impfstoffs #Comirnaty #LP.8.1 offiziell kommuniziert. Die entsprechende Verlinkung und den Text dazu findet ihr ab Posting 2/x hier drunter.⤵️

Empfehle: „Mein Essen mit André“

AirTag oder Tile, je nach Handy. Wirklich empfehlenswert.

Association of COVID vaccinations and treatments with long COVID beyond 6 months: a case-control study on the adult population in a large integrated healthcare system in the United States from 2020 to... Long coronavirus disease (Long COVID) is a chronic condition causing significant long-term disability and economic burden. This study aims to measure …

The more you're vaccinated, the lower the odds of Long COVID.

STUDY: "Long COVID outcome was inversely associated with the number of #COVID19 vaccination doses (one dose odds ratio (OR) 0.77, two doses OR 0.73, three doses OR 0.64, four doses OR 0.29)."

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I follow the literature and I know there are 150 k papers and 20 million gene sequences. Still, we don’t know what the global long term impact will be (cognition, hc resources, etc). I do get yr point, but atm I see a priority here. But I am only a Clin Res person, not a virologist, so just my 2 c.

One reason IMHO might be that it is a totally new, rapidly mutating virus about which we know little, esp long term effects on a global population, while we have studied flu for a 100 yrs. Another might be 2.5 Million flu deaths in the last five years vs. 20 Million COVID deaths.

The brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains triggered an immune response.

This is fascinating - the brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Moderna erhalt Zulassung der Europaischen Kommission für aktualisierten COVID-19- Impfstoff gegen die SARS- CoV-2-Variante LP.8.1

Moderna erhält Zulassung der Europäischen Kommission für aktualisierten COVID-19-Impfstoff gegen die SARS-CoV-2-Variante LP.8.1

Diese Marktzulassung folgt der positiven Stellungnahme des Ausschusses für Humanarzneimittel (CHMP) der Europäischen Arzneimittel-Agentur (EMA). Die …

Black Bag

Almost 90% of treated Ebola survivors have long-term health effects, data show Researchers found high rates of neurologic conditions among patients who received certain monoclonal antibodies, women, older survivors, and those with underlying illnesses.

"Long Ebola" is a very discouraging thought: www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/almost...

We've known that Covid increases the risk in survivors of cancer, but today @nature.com a mechanism of reactivation of cancer cells elucidated in the experimental model
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis (shown in mice). In humans, cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths—and 1.4× greater breast cancer.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Study highlights major impact of RSV on older adults

Adults 65 and older hospitalized for RSV had higher rates of poor outcomes like heart conditions, ICU admission, and 30-day mortality

www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...

One more time, just in case anyone hasn't yet seen it. Gutted at today's news of a double child drowning. Please read and share.

Verlauf COVID-Abwassserwerte

COVID-Abwasserwerte. In Wien minder erfreulich. Weitere Informationen auf covidanalysen.at

Hello, I am a Clinical Researcher in a film. My trial subjects are hidden in a warehouse where I inject them with greenish liquid until they die. When detectives come to see me, my blonde PR person sends them away, but I spill all my secrets to a beautiful undercover agent with a mic in her earring.