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EuroQol Research Foundation @euroqol.bsky.social · Aug 19

EQ-TIPS was developed to meet growing interest in evaluating the effectiveness & cost-effectiveness of treatments in very young children 👶

In this paper, @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social et al. examine issues in valuing the EQ-TIPS and possible adaptations to valuation methods 👉 bit.ly/4oxl4gF

Text: ‘Publication, Paper Tuesday - Valuing health states for infants and toddlers: challenges and methodological considerations in EQ-TIPS preferences elicitation. by Devlin, N. et al. (2025).' The background is a gradient blue with overlaid images of books and the world map.

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Aug 14

Una gran mejora, largamente esperada. Las nuevas funciones de edición de gráficos en el programa de análisis estadístico Jamovi impresionan gratamente. Jamovi se puede descargar e instalar gratis desde www.jamovi.org

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Non-White scientists endure longer waiting times between the submission and acceptance of their manuscripts, and upon publication, their papers receive fewer citations than would be expected based on textual similarity."

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jul 24

Antwerp on a cloudy day. (📷Canon T70 - 🎞️Fujicolor 200) #filmisnotdead

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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · Jul 14

📰 Check out all the oral abstracts from #IAS2025 in the new Journal of the International AIDS Society IAS 2025 abstract supplement: bit.ly/JIAS2025

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AliciaDWright @aliciadwright.bsky.social · Jul 5

🇧🇷 #Tuberculosis “This study presents 👩🏽‍🦱Maria Ciência… The tool supports researchers in translating peer-reviewed scientific findings through simple prompts into accessible, ethically appropriate materials tailored for children, general public…”
Preprint🔗⬇️
s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir....

Maria Ciência: Application of Artificial Intelligence for Audience-Specific Health Communication and Knowledge Dissemination

Background: Scientific misinformation remains a major barrier to effective health communication. Bridging the gap between academic research and public understanding requires tools that simplify...

preprints.jmir.org

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Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp @itmantwerp.bsky.social · Jul 4

In the past week, 90 students have finished their studies at ITM, ready to take on global health challenges!
To all our graduates: your hard work, resilience, and dedication have brought you here. You're not only graduating. You're joining a powerful global community of changemakers. #ITMAlumni

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · Jul 2

Important new @msfaccess.org report highlights how even EU countries lack appropriate access to #tuberculosis medicines💊.
"Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential #TB medicines in the EU and EEA"
msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
(other high-income countries like Canada face similar challenges)

Screenshot of the cover of the linked report.

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Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social · Jul 1

💥 Very excited to share this review in Nature Reviews Microbiology.
Contributing to this review with Val, Digby and Amy was an enlightening experience! Hope people in the community find it useful- we managed to cite around 200 papers...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis biology, pathogenicity and interaction with the host

Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Warner, Barczak, Gutierrez and Mizrahi explore essential aspects of Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology and biology, present recent advances related...

www.nature.com

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · Jul 1

How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers
Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more
www.science.org/content/arti...

How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers

Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more

www.science.org

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IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · Jul 1

🆕 Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) supplement, “PEP in Africa: prospects, opportunities and challenges”, just launched!

📰 Access all the articles for free now:

zurl.co/MShcA

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jun 26

Quality use of medicines is: 1) selecting wisely treatment options
2) choosing suitable medicines only if necessary
3) using medicines safely to get the best possible results
4) choosing only medicines that benefit the patient. But, how to teach QUM? www.racgp.org.au/afp/2017/mar...

Teaching rational prescribing to general practice registrars: A guide for supervisors

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. – Paracelsus…

www.racgp.org.au

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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · Jun 24

The ethics of health research priority setting: A casebook
www.who.int/publications...

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jun 23

Productive informal meeting with CAD-LUS4TB colleagues at the EDCTP Forum! 🤝 Discussing our upcoming AI-powered TB diagnosis project with this amazing international team. Can't wait to start working together to improve TB care in sub-Saharan Africa using innovative lung ultrasound technology.

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Kim Stachenfeld, PhD @neurokim.bsky.social · Jun 16

New work on relational reasoning in transformers!

TLDR: Inductive biases of In-Weight and In-Context Learning in transformers are really different for relational reasoning, and pretraining can make a big difference for in-context.

Check out @jessegeerts.bsky.social's thread for more!

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Tulio de Oliveira @tuliodna.bsky.social · Jun 16

Well deserved outstanding team award to Zambart from Zambia #EDCTP2025

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jun 14

On my way to participate in the 12th EDCTP Forum 😀.
If you're attending the forum, I'd love to connect! Feel free to reach out or stop by the session! #EDCTPForum #EDCTP2025 #GlobalHealth

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧐Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030: a retrospective analysis and modelling study - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030: a retrospective analysis and modelling study

CCT programmes have strongly contributed to the reduction of morbidity and mortality in Brazil, having prevented millions of hospitalisations and deaths in the past two decades. During the current per...

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jun 11

I'll be presenting at the 12th EDCTP Forum in Rwanda next week! "Collaborative training networks to build leadership for research excellence and biotech innovation in sub-Saharan Africa" - Innovations in capacity building parallel session. 📅 Tue, June 17th at 2:00 PM. More at: edctpforum.eu

Better healththrough globalresearch partnerships

Global Health EDCTP3 and the EDCTP Association are delighted to invite you to participate in the Twelfth EDCTP Forum, a unique platform for policymakers,…

edctpforum.eu

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jun 10

Win some, lose some. Just got word that a proposal didn't make it through a competitive call 🫤. Always learning for next time!

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · Jun 9

"Although the cause of the epidemic hasn’t been definitively determined, most scientists agree that, at least among sugar-cane workers, intense labour in extreme heat is one of the major drivers of this condition." #ClimateChangeAndHealth #OccupationalHealth

How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing thousands of young men

Repeated damage from extreme heat over time seems to be a leading factor causing kidneys to fail.

www.nature.com

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jun 9

Antwerpen #filmisnotdead

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jun 4

“M. tuberculosis has evolved into an astonishingly adept human pathogen. And one of its greatest skills is its ability to fly through the air”

@carlzimmer.com on why TB has killed millions over the ages

www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer

www.newscientist.com

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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · Jun 4

Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death

INSIDE VIEW - Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa

Every year, 1.3 million people die of tuberculosis, making it the world’s deadliest infectious disease. LEARN MORE ⬇️

@msf.ca | #EndTB | #TBPRACTECAL | #MSF

Cracking The Cost Code: Why Transparency In TB Is A Matter Of Life And Death - Health Policy Watch

This stands in stark contrast to the opaque norms of pharmaceutical research and development (R&D), where there is no transparency about what it costs to

healthpolicy-watch.news

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Rodrigo Henríquez @docmundele.bsky.social · Jun 3

New article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology led by our @itmantwerp.bsky.social statistician Bart KM Jacobs. We describe an extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method allowing the inclusion of continuous covariates. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

An extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method for continuous covariates in clinical decision making - BMC Medical Research Methodology

Background There is still demand for algorithms that can be used at the point of care, especially when dealing with events that do not present with a single obvious clinical indicator. The Spiegelhalt...

bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com

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