2 weeks ago today I had OHS to repair an atrial septal defect that I unknowingly had since birth, but was found as a surprise in 2017. I owe endless thanks to @BartsGuch for being the most amazing team of people looking after me from diagnosis and onwards. The best!
@maneale@TfL@MayorofLondon It’s all relative to what you’re used to and what the service is meant to be. Overground trains yes, 20 mins is good. But when the London Underground is meant to be a rapid transport system that used to have trains every 2 mins, 20 is bad!
Congratulations to our Prof Matthew Pickering for being elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. @acmedsci 🎉
Fellows are recognised for their remarkable contributions to biomedical and health science.
👉https://t.co/zvfufhrMGv
🚨Baseline MELODY Study results online today.
>100,000 immunocompromised people with organ transplants, rare autoimmune disease or blood cancer were invited 2 take part.
COVID-Ab results after 3-5 vaccines were reported in >23,000.
https://t.co/fkYWWaNFW9
The final researcher we're featuring for International Women and Girls in Science Day is Dr Michelle Willicombe, who is leading the @MELODYStudyUK.
Read more about its aims and Michelle's role here 👉 https://t.co/InlpxqpaAJ
@Frank_M_W @handa_suhas@WesElyMD@Nature They may have applied for ethical approval before the vaccine rollout so it wasn’t included in the study. Then an amendment would have needed to be made and different recruitment criteria etc? Not sure, just an assumption.
A lot of questions about XBB.1.5, which is elbowing out other omicron varieties to be the dominant variant of the winter surge.
XBB.1.5 does seem to have a transmission/fitness advantage but that doesn’t mean it’s an apocalyptic “super variant.”
Why?
Vaccines work. See below:
@TiffanyLamb2017@WesElyMD@Nature The thing is they can only do research on what’s available. Recruiting patients into this study, to get good numbers to perform robust analyses, in the fine frame, would mean there were likely no patients or not enough to analyse that were taking anticoagulants.
@UnTatTheKat@tanyalewis314@sciam It’s an opinion piece because it tells you a bit about what it was like to do this research, but if you want to read the research itself, just follow the links. Or you can find a more academic peer reviewed summary of the same issues here…