
Marvin Hsiao
@hsiaomarvin
🇹🇼🇿🇦Clinical virologist @nhls_sa, A/prof @UCTHealthSci, clueless dad, and lifelong gamer. Aspire to be useful.
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11-04-2014 12:33:50
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Overheard another conversation between 2 adults.GP gave antibiotics for allergic rhinitis to "prevent it from going into the chest". 😳 It's allergy season in SA! @Discovery_SA Bonitas Medical Fund do you check antibiotic prescriptions for guideline compliance? #AMR


🧵 Today is the United Nations High-Level Mtg on #TB: We call on govts to take immediate, concrete actions to live up to the commitments made in today's Political Declaration on #TB, to rapidly boost TB testing & treatment for all, & TB care for children. #UNHLM msfaccess.org/commitments-ma…

4/5 Thus, we call on Cepheid & Danaher Corporation to lower test prices for XDR-TB & other diseases. Also we urge Johnson & Johnson to not enforce secondary patents for the drug #bedaquiline in high-TB-burden countries 🚫💊. We urgently need global access to this lifesaving drug.





6 out of 8 The Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry this year are immigrants! 🌍🏆 #DiversityInScience #NobelPrize





