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Fighting to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate, for Her Daughters’ Sake A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?

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YouTube video by Tim Minchin White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin

Tim Minchin perfectly describes how wonderful Christmas is

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Trends in fluoroquinolone prescribing in UK primary and secondary care between 2019 and 2023 AbstractIntroduction. Fluoroquinolones are important antibiotics but have associations with a number of adverse outcomes. A recent (January 2024) decision

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Trends in fluoroquinolone prescribing in UK primary and secondary care between 2019 and 2023 #idsky
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Infographic about drug fever.

Drug fever.

Cefiderocol is a cephalosporin with an unusual mechanism of transport for reaching the periplasmic space of Gram-negative bacteria. It is a siderophore, an iron transport molecule, which crosses the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria using the bacterial iron transport system. Read the comic strip to find out more

What’s Special about Cefiderocol?
A Micro-Comic Strip #idsky #medsky #AMSsky #microsky #EMIMCC
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@idiots-pod.bsky.social and @febrilepodcast.bsky.social would be fantastic for the TB book!

As the internet’s current 4th most famous ophthalmologist, behind sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rand Paul, and Bashar Al-Assad, I’d like to request an updated ranking please.

𝘽𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙖 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙙𝙤𝙧-𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙍𝙄?

The spirochete that causes Lyme disease has been clocked at 2,800 µm/min moving back and forth across a platelet, 100 times greater than the speed of a human neutrophil, the fastest cell in the body

Ref: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001633

A narrow walkway in Tokyo. The sides of the street are lined with shops and what look to be residences.

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

We repeat this experiment (or versions of it) in towns over and over again with the same positive outcome every time but without any resultant widespread policy change.

A list of bands in order of efficacy:

3. Placebo
2. The Cure
1. Prevention

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ONLY SENT IT TO HISTOPATH AND NOT TO MICROBIOLOGY ???!!

Wake up babe, a new microbiology meme just dropped

#IDSky #MicroSky #MedSky

Narrative reporting- we should all be doing this! It uses the opportunity to use our routine reports for maximum impact for patients. To take this further we need to ensure we are writing for patients and clinicians #FISHIS24

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