Now acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) and EV-D68 Since the pandemic, epidemic spikes in EV-D68 with respiratory cases seems to have been decoupled from cases of AFM - but why…?!

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Congratulations to University of Southampton University Hospital Southampton 💙’s Saul Faust on being named an Honorary Fellow of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine! The honour was presented at an awards ceremony in London last week. It recognises his exceptional contributions to the field 👏 Read more: fpm.org.uk/blog/honorary-…

For anyone still interested in mortality trends, our good friends at the CMI have issued their half year update, which shows that mortality in 2025 is running at just about the lowest level yet, but still only comparable to 2019 which was (at the time) a very low outlier.

When people found a way to make safe vaccines with no mercury, he renamed his anti-vaccine organization from “the world mercury project” to “children’s health defense.” Responding to his fear mongering never ends his fear mongering because fear is his only product.

Too little caffeine = paralysis Too much caffeine = panic attack Just right caffeine = brief burst of productivity, then panic attack, then paralysis

Hate to use platform for this but I’m desperate Does anyone (doctor pharmacist w/ access to Medicine Supply Notifications) have ANY information on when Scopoderm Hyoscine patches will be available? My son moved to glyco few months ago due to shortage & not tolerating. DMs open

Adan Z Becerra, PhD Miguel Hernán If you delve into these teams’ approaches for deriving the list of potential confounders to adjust for, you will usually find the process to be biased by data availability from studies that were launched without a fully prospective design.

RFK Jr. is misrepresenting a landmark Danish study that followed 1.2 million children over 24 years. The study found no link between aluminum in vaccines and autism or neurodevelopmental harm. Let’s fact-check his claims - using actual data. 🧵

RFK: We need to study the safety of aluminium in vaccines! Denmark: Here is a study of *all children* born in a 23 year period, finding no safety issues from aluminium in vaccines RFK: Not THAT kind of study! I meant one that supports what I already decided to believe!

RFKs tweet has now received a community note due to its enormous misrepresentation of some of the study statistics This is embarrassing for the US administration - it is absolutely basic stuff

Sad to see one of the world’s most respected vaccine epidemiologists forced to respond to smears and conspiracy theories from the US Health Secretary…on a fake news site no less. trialsitenews.com/a/data-vs.-dou…

We should be clear - to the scientifically literate, some of the stuff RFK Jnr says isn’t “controversial” or “edgy” - it is absolutely ludicrous Much less “Galileo” and much more “did you know my mother is actually a poached egg?” vibes

Hviid has now directly addressed all methodological concerns raised by RFK and others on the Annals of Internal Medicine website: acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN… He conducted a series of sensitivity analyses showing that his results were unchanged when: 1. Including events from 14

Jay, Vinay, and Marty are all objectively: well-trained, smart, scientists, whether you agree with all of their stances or not (whereas RFK is none of these 3 things...). I think that's what I find so hard in reading something like this. Clearly Jay is smart and scientific, and

I understand peoples scepticisms of pharma, much is well deserved However, it is worth considering the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most heavily regulated in the world The wellness industry is *almost completely unregulated*, and deserves substantially MORE scepticism

Trying to complete two clinical trial regulatory submissions in one week is not good for ones mental well being

Unbelievable black mirror level stuff A “catturd” flogging a snake oil wellness package of antihelminths for a totally made up, nonsense problem Well done society

I’ve had a great few days observing at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Immunology lab Grateful for all their patience and really excellent teaching! I’ll be having dreams about flow cytometry for days…