Watched a fear mongering news report today about mucormycosis that ended with how amphotericin b should be used in mucormycosis. Wondering if such reports may actually be dangerous n lead to hoarding n panic. Isn't this tabloid medicine in action? Elavarasi A🇮🇳 Ash Paul Giridara Gopal Parameswaran

Trying to fight misinformation by an 'influential' man by doctors by trending #ArrestQuackRamdev is a good effort. Unfortunately, I doubt that anyone who believes him would be convinced by our tweets.

New Public Health England Report on variants shows people vaccinated with one dose are only 34% protected against B.617.2 (India). (1)

LONG THREAD on B.1.617.2 & latest PHE data covering: 1) latest tech report on B.1.617.2 (aka "India" variant) 2) vaccine efficacy against B.1.617.2 3) consequences for roadmap 4) avoidability... or not.

Don't miss this talk by Dr. SHILADITYA SENGUPTA (Harvard Medical School) tomorrow organized by The Scientific Society, AIIMS New Delhi. mit.zoom.us/j/228082363 AIIMS UnderGraduates

Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ Recently, we MBBS students The Scientific Society, AIIMS New Delhi have started a critical appraisal series. First year students appraise papers and present them. It is such an important skill to develop. Dr. Amulya Gupta Archisman Mazumder Elavarasi A🇮🇳

1.5 years into the pandemic and now I am horrified at the thought of how in the prepandemic era, we used to see patients of diseases like TB and respiratory infections even without masks sometimes.

Adjusting reported COVID-19 deaths for the prevailing routine death surveillance in India frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… via Hemant Deepak & Giridara Gopal Parameswaran & @xMohakGupta & Archisman Mazumder & iCART | COVID-19 analytics for India Bhramar Mukherjee Center for Global Development Gautam Menon

Anastomosis is finally happening! It’s free and online, making it the first pan-India accessible exam conducted by AIIMS MBBS students. AIIMS, New Delhi 🇮🇳

It was really a great experience presenting Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes. Learnt a lot over the last couple of days.

Guillain barre / GBS has an interesting differential diagnosis that has crucial management implications Here is a thread based on what I have learned from my dear residents, attendings & journals #MedTwitter #NeuroTwitter Rabih Geha @DxRxEdu Aaron Berkowitz Ravi Singh

Need volunteers for a clinical trial. People with 2 doses of Covaxin 3-6 months ago are eligible to enroll in a booster dosing study. Folks in Vellore, Chennai, Bangalore or Delhi willing to consider participating please email [email protected]. Please retweet-thank you

Something new is on its way.. A dream, a vision…an Insight. Presenting to you, the Inaugural Edition of Insight - an undergraduate medical and scientific fest organised by AIIMS, New Delhi, this April.. Guess what’s in store! #insight #comingsoon #workshop #aiimsdelhi #aiims

First event in InSight 2022 has started registrations. Many more to join soon. Stay updated : linktr.ee/insightaiims or follow on Insta. #medlife #workshop #MUN #AIIMSDELHI #conference #aiims #sciencefestival #talkshow #mbbs #medquiz #Insight AIIMS UnderGraduates

The Scientific Society is excited to announce the next speaker in our talk series - Nachiket Mor, who will be talking to us about Reimagining the Indian Health System: Perspective of a Health Systems Designer. Please join us at 25th March at 3:30 pm! youtu.be/GjVQd17w_hc

A young girl & her father enters OPD 14y and is deeply jaundiced Teary eyed, her father requests ONLY one thing "She's advised liver transplant. We are poor. Can you please help us avoid it?" I look at the girl the father & brace myself for the worst case I'd ever seen...

Our analysis of the retracted COVID-19 papers shows that pre-prints are retracted significantly faster than peer-reviewed articles. Retraction Watch medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

The history of cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography) is pretty remarkable. It started with a problem in Lund, Sweden in the late 1940s 🧵

TIL: Morning After Emergency Contraceptives (Levonorgestrel and Ulipristal) are ineffective after ovulation. 🤯

Just in Nature Medicine👉Results from Ph3 TALAPRO-2 trial in 399 pts w/ HRR-deficient mCRPC #prostatecancer👉enza + tala vs. enza, rPFS HR 0.44, OS trending strongly HR 0.69, efficacy in multiple HRR gene subsets⬇️open access👉tinyurl.com/wntrx75a OncoAlert PCF Science