Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵
Yes! Coding is thinking. My new rule of thumb: Use a LLM only to write code to do things that either are low priority or that I don’t have time to do and wouldn’t have done without LLM (while assuming the generated code is only 80% right).
Algorithms to classify #Cdiff as hospital- or community-onset rely on duration between patient hospital admission & specimen date for classification. This fails to account for stays in EDs. UKHSA revised the definition https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(25)00273-7/fulltext
Tomorrow is the Society #PumphandleLecture in the John Snow Lecture Theatre @lshtm.bsky.social. Dr Cesar Victora will give the keynote: "From local insights to global impact: Four decades of child health and nutrition epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil" Details here 👇🏼:
Only halfway through but Rosie Swale Pope's A little run around the world is a great book. Heartbreaking first chapter and doesn't let up much after that.
Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.
Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.
Only skimmed the article so far. It had an AUC of 0.81 for predicting death, vs 0.71 by Charlson comorbidity score. So a moderate improvement. But, I wonder how good it needs to be for clinical practice?
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
Very tempted to an Osprey back pack. Need the stretch panel at the front for a helmet. Downside is that I don't see side pockets for water bottles. Other downside is the hip belt is a nuisance for commuting. www.osprey.com/gb/osprey-ta...
