Protect yourself & others from getting sick: 1⃣ Wash your hands 🧼 after coughing or sneezing 🧼 when caring for the sick 🧼 before, during & after you prepare food 🧼 before eating 🧼 after toilet use 🧼 when hands are visibly dirty 🧼 after handling animals or animal waste

To everyone in NYC but ESPECIALLY healthy people & people under 40 (bc from what I’m observing that’s who needs to hear this again): PLEASE stop crowding bars, restaurants, and public spaces right now. Eat your meals at home. If you are healthy, you could be spreading COVID.

"It is true that most people who get [#COVID19] do fine," says @CMYeaton on Public Health On Call. "But every single person should be thinking of themselves as a bridge to someone who is more vulnerable." 🔗 jhsph.edu/podcasts/publi… #️⃣ #FlattenTheCurve johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/what-does-flat…

If it’s public health versus the economy, the only choice is public health. You cannot put a value on human life. You do the right thing. That’s what Pop taught us Christopher C. Cuomo

Finally, a clear-cut answer from a remdesivir study: It has a modest benefit in some hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Like AZT for HIV, it opens a door. But there's still a long road ahead to find a powerful treatment that helps most everyone survive. sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/l…

#LaskerLaureate George Wells Beadle was born #OTD. He was recognized for contributions to the understanding of the genetic control of metabolic processes. Caltech ow.ly/QNwz50KHbkp

Happy birthday to Elizabeth Blackburn! She won a #LaskerAward for the discovery of telomerase - a remarkable RNA-containing enzyme that synthesizes the ends of chromosomes - and its implications for aging and #cancer . UC San Francisco ow.ly/QSAa50KHo7T

A 70-year-old man undergoing cholangioscopy to evaluate dilatation of the common bile duct was found to have flatworms in his biliary tract (shown in a video). Read the full clinical case: nej.md/3NAhXE0

This time Hilton Pharma.. What to say about Pakistan pharma industry !! An important anti-seizure medicine, on... fb.me/3qMfMpz6O

Stress exists when the adaptive capacity of the individual is overwhelmed by events. The event may be an... fb.me/241rVvbdx

12 Sept. 1897: Marie & Pierre Curie’s 1ST daughter Irène is born. Awarded #NobelPrize for artificial radioactivity.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded with one half jointly to William C. Campbell and... fb.me/4arDqhXDl

A Penalty for Ordering PSA Tests? fb.me/HkeAYT85

Every year unvaccinated int'l travelers get #measles & bring it to US. Help stop measles. 1.usa.gov/1L6UKAY

"We are making science for the benefit of humanity." Happy 70th birthday, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (2008 #NobelPrize in Medicine)!

... drug discovery is increasingly difficult. Billions of $$, several years go into discovery of each drug. -Carpenter #broadtalks

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Sir Arthur Eddington, the astronomer who confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, was born #onthisday 1882 ow.ly/UoZi300uz83

“What is marvellous about the Origin of Species is that anybody can read any page & it makes sense to them. It’s not full of jargon, it’s full of argument & observation. Another reason why I admire him so much,” Sir David Attenborough #PeopleOfScience ow.ly/IBFl30hJGMG