libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2024-07-09

BrainstormNew from BMJ Open: Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis: Introduction Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) characterisation has evolved, but diagnosis remains challenging, relying on clinical diagnostic criteria [... want %more?] → http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/14/7/e08193500:56
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: 'Playing COVID roulette': Some infected by FLiRT variants report their most unpleasant symptoms yet → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1dyn00m/playing_covid_roulette_some_infected_by_flirt/01:06
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Helen Salisbury: Putting the care into healthcare: What do we want from a healthcare service? We certainly want health, and the service tries to maintain this through preventive treatments, vaccinations, and cancer screening. When our bodies go wrong we can sometimes restore them with curative treatments: [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1458.short12:17
BrainstormNew from PubMed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Employment of People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Multiple Methods Study: CONCLUSIONS: The pandemic showed that MS symptom management was improved by work flexibility (eg, working from home, breaks, flexible working hours); for people with MS, these accommodations improved both their [... want %more?] → https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38979405/12:46
BrainstormNew from The Atlantic: Asthma Boulevard: J o Franco still remembers the moment she realized that her nose worked. Growing up in Wilmington, a Los Angeles neighborhood dotted with oil refineries and next to one of the largest port complexes in the country, she’d always [... want %more?] → https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2024/07/asthma-california-environment-photography/675288/13:05
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Biden's Doc Says No Parkinson's; Overlooked COVID Symptom; STDs Spiked Among Seniors: (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription.President Joe Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical and his last physical showed no [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/11100916:15
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Biotech: STAT+: Mikael Dolsten, Pfizer CSO who could take on Covid but not Wall Street, to step down → https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/09/mikael-dolsten-pfizer-cso-to-step-down/16:35
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Ukraine: Russian missiles destroy children’s hospital and kill dozens: A “deadly wave of missile strikes” launched by Russia on 8 July has destroyed a large part of Ohmatdyt, a major children’s hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, the UN has reported.1UN human rights chief Volker Türk “deplored” the attack [... want %more?] → http://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1522.short17:45
BrainstormNew from MedPageToday: Pandemic Lockdowns Might Have Prevented Wheeze in a Generation of Babies: (MedPage Today) -- The COVID-19 pandemic had an upside for lockdown babies: substantially less wheezing and bronchiolitis, according to an Italian retrospective cohort study.One or more wheezing episode by age 30 [... want %more?] → https://www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/generalpulmonary/11101418:25
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: In the aftermath of the pandemic, the U.S. public health system must focus on critical questions of accountability, politicization and updating data systems if it is to do its job well and maintain the trust of the American people, according to a [... want %more?] → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1dz7efj/in_the_aftermath_of_the_pandemic_the_us_public/19:05
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): Some additional observations. Vaccination is/seeems like a privelage, with much higher vaccine uptake in groups with private insurance and who identify as white. → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11275764202955193119:15
BrainstormNew from Marc Veldhoen on Mastodon: (news): "Once rightwing media outlets discovered that NIAID, led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, a man these outlets revile, had funded some of the research EcoHealth Alliance did with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the years before Covid-19, all hell broke loose." → https://mastodon.online/@marc_veld/11275778587068435419:54
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Bird flu viruses may infect mammary glands more commonly than thought. Virus detection in cow milk was a big hint. Now tests show H5N1 infects the mammary glands of mice, too. → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1dzaegp/bird_flu_viruses_may_infect_mammary_glands_more/21:32
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: (news): Study: Long-term post-COVID altered sense of smell in healthcare workers common → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-long-term-post-covid-altered-sense-smell-healthcare-workers-common22:02
BrainstormNew from r/Coronavirus: Coronavirus: Complex patterns of multimorbidity associated with severe COVID-19 and long COVID → https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/1dzdop8/complex_patterns_of_multimorbidity_associated/23:20

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