World #Chagas Day! Calll to action for cardiologists in the US, we see immigrants with Chagas #cardiomyopathy way more than we realize! American College of Cardiology Heart Rhythm Society CardioNerds theheartorg-Medscape SIAC Quinn Capers, IV National Hispanic Medical Association #nhlcc LMSA National

This is a bad policy, NEJM, as I told MedPage Today. medpagetoday.com/special-report…

Are women better doctors than men? A new study, appearing in Annals of Int Med suggests, well, yeah. Kind of. (Thread)

A podcast with Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch and Ed Pentz Crossref | @[email protected] . They discuss how their partnership opens access to retractions data, and how publishers, authors and readers can use the data. ow.ly/qkWm50R2kML #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #ScholComms

The "golden hour" in trauma is that (brief) time window that you have to get a patient with severe injuries to definitive care. Take too long... and outcomes drop off precipitously. Extending the golden hour may be possible soon... with a robot. I'm serious.... (Thread).

Counterintuitive finding of the week: Inpatient Mortality is not a good way to judge hospitals. (Thread)...

An epidemic of scientific fakery threatens to overwhelm publishers: Our Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky in The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

More than 10,000 scientific papers were retracted last year as “paper mills” exploit the system, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky write. wapo.st/3Rpa9Xs

"The public should thank Corchado for raising alarm bells. Whether he remains as rector of the University of Salamanca is less important than whether the episode prompts real change in Spain — and elsewhere," write Ivan Oransky Adam Marcus Retraction Watch english.elpais.com/science-tech/2…

"AI threatens scientific research with fake papers" |The Saturday Paper | Ivan Oransky | Retraction Watch | buff.ly/4cqF4LI

Regenerative Medicine. It's an amazing pitch. Let's harness your bodies own cells - stem cells no less - to heal what ails you. Worldwide, harvesting cells from one part of your body and injecting them into another is a 35 BILLION dollar industry. But is it, you know, real? (🧵)

LOTS of Chagas disease in Metropolitan Washington DC area!! MedStar Health Inova Quinn Capers, IV @susanjosephmd Holy Cross Health Adventist HealthCare @suburbanhosp are you testing??

Happy 14th birthday, Retraction Watch – and what a year it was retractionwatch.com/2024/08/02/hap…

".Ivan Oransky emphasised that the problem was not just paper mills, but a broader academic culture which pushes researchers to 'publish or perish'." barrons.com/news/flood-of-…

A journal editor wondered if data were “too good to be true.” A BBC Radio segment featuring our Adam Marcus. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

"Why scientist rankings should be ignored." Our Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus in Thanh Nien News thanhnien.vn/vi-sao-khong-n…

Vaccine season is rapidly approaching, so I was intrigued by this article, in JAMA that examined the long-term outcomes of people who suffered post-vaccine vs. post-covid myocarditis. Brief 🧵

9/24 at 7:30 PM | Journalist Lynne Peeples explores how the emerging science of circadian rhythms could impact our sleep, health, and happiness. bit.ly/3T5WVA1

Exclusive: the papers that most heavily cite retracted studies nature.com/articles/d4158…

In July 2023, the European Medicines Agency announced an investigation into reports that GLP-1 receptor agonist weight loss drugs, like #ozempic, might increase the risk of suicide and self-harm. Is this link plausible? New data is just out. Brief 🧵...