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Jada
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PGY5 EM. Thrombosis fellow. Views not representative of my employer/reskeets not endorsements. Interested in healthcare, Canadian content, social media and misinfo/disinfo. #MedSky #CanadaSky
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This is what we were waiting for. A direct comparison between apixaban and rivaroxaban for the treatment of acute VTE. Apixaban reduces bleeding risk in the first 3 months by >50%!

Practice changing investigator-initiated RCT.

#ISTH2025
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When you’re an anti-vaxxer and also bad at Zelda
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The U.S. is letting people report Canadian doctors like they’re criminals — you know, for doing their jobs. And no one’s really talking about it yet.

Oh, and apparently our kids' mattresses are full of banned chemicals. Cool cool.

Details 👇

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U.S. ‘whistleblower’ site targets Canadian doctors providing…
Canadian providers can now be flagged to U.S. authorities without ever setting foot in the country.
canadahealthwatch.ca
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Important paper: In patients with cancer and venous thrombosis, extended anticoagulation with low dose Apixaban is as good as full dose Apixaban in preventing thrombosis recurrence and is associated with less bleeding. tinyurl.com/yyfuan35
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The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians has put out a statment calling on governments at all levels to halt any plans to close supervised consumption services. #yyc #ableg #reddeer

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WIRED @wired.com · Apr 1
“The cuts today at CDC targeted programs that address all aspects of American lives,” a source at the CDC tells WIRED. “This will lead to worse health outcomes, greater risks to the US public, and will contribute to the decline in US life expectancy."
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
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Hi nerds, our newsletter is back!

This week’s top story isn’t about vaccines or viruses. It’s birth control.

Gynecologists say online disinformation is influencing their patients to reject established methods of contraception.

But is it just another viral trend, or something else?
The war on birth control isn't a trend. It’s a campaign
A wave of disinformation amplified by tech billionaires is turning patients away from birth control.
canadahealthwatch.ca
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"You can't blindly trust everything you read on Wikipedia" was such a long-term internet media literacy rallying cry, and then somebody came along and made "much worse wikipedia, but also it does your homework for you" and everyone in power collectively turned their brains off
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3 points on this because there's renewed interest in domestic production of vaccines in Canada in light of tariffs & general global health chaos:
1. Local production (globally) is needed for security of supply of some vaccines
2. Not all local production will be helpful
3. Choose products carefully
Measles vaccination campaigns are large undertakings, but:
1. The vaccine is very safe and well-studied
2. The vaccine is very effective in real-world conditions
3. The measles vaccine market globally is strong - vaccines are generally affordable, accessible, and have multiple suppliers globally.
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This is exactly the kind of medicine for which there is a strong argument for the role of a public manufacturer - market size is too small to sustain the interest of quality assured manufacturers in the private sector, leading to product shortages and uncertainty compromising patient care.
🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia

Shortages of benzathine benzylpenicillin G in Australia highlight the need for new sovereign manufacturing capability

✍️ Rosemary Wyber, Glenn Pearson and Laurens Manning

OPEN ACCESS www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
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There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I remember every last pre-intubation phone call between my C19 resp failure patients and their loved ones. Isolating at home felt like nothing compared to the final conversations I witnessed.
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CMA motivating me to come back to BlueSky. Looking for others to follow with interest in palliative care, Indigenous Health, primary care, health equity or anyone that can bring a good variety to my feed!

#hpm #palliativecare #Indigenoushealth #cdnhealth

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The CMA has stopped posting on X.
With Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration, the platform has become a tool for the U.S government and its attacks on Canadians and our sovereignty.
CMA leaving X
The CMA has stopped posting on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, as of Mar. 12.
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The CMA has stopped posting on X.
With Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration, the platform has become a tool for the U.S government and its attacks on Canadians and our sovereignty.
CMA leaving X
The CMA has stopped posting on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, as of Mar. 12.
www.cma.ca