Identifying policy solution for public health challenges!
In Texas, uninsured cancer patients who live in counties that offer financial assistance are more likely to receive cancer treatment and live longer! @PatricioPolanc0@Parkland@harrishealth@JPS_Health@utswosph@UTSW_Surgery
https://t.co/tOuU9ytZZm
India is in the throes of a horrendous COVID surge
Horrendous
They are struggling to get more people vaccinated
We are sitting on 35-40 million doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine Americans will never use
Can we please give or lend them to India? Like may be now?
It'll help. A lot
@akbarherekar @UTSW_Surgery@UTSWSurgeryLife Love it. I have yet to decide my sub specialty, if any. I do like dreaming about healthcare administration and systems development in LICs/LMICs. You are definitely my chief anesthensivist.
In 1876, Joseph Lister spoke in Philadelphia on sterile surgery. This inspired medicated plaster maker Robert Wood Johnson, who was in the audience, to form a company to make sterile sutures and dressings, starting in 1887. The name? Johnson & Johnson.
Protection from natural immunity in follow-up of over 25,000 healthcare workers:
If you've had covid, there's an 84% lower risk of (re)infection for at least 7 months.
93% reduction in symptomatic infections.
No effect of B.1.1.7.
All good!
New @TheLancet https://t.co/xiIIRHSRtW
"When I think of #HealthEquity - the word ๐๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ comes to mind - healthcare needs to be accessible & available, not based on where you live or how wealthy you are or what nationality you are or ethnicity or who you love" -Dr @mvankerkhove