Fidelity Investments VP of health care thought leadership. Kid wrangler. Soccer. Zombie novels. All things Texana. Views my own.
Fort Worth, Texas
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Benjamin Isgur retweeted
Very good news
Metformin significantly helped prevent #LongCovid in a placebo-controlled randomized trial, a 42% relative reduction
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… by @BramanteCarolyn
and colleagues
Benjamin Isgur retweeted
I've worked in health policy & health economics for over 35 years. I've heard since the beginning, about US healthcare (non) system being unsustainable. Yet it is sustained -->
US HC system, however flawed, and despite how much you might not like it, IS SUSTAINABLE!
Discuss
Benjamin Isgur retweeted
Visiting space aliens, upon seeing humans oppress — or kill — one another over who they worship, who they sleep with, what side of an arbitrary line they’re born on, or how absorptive their skin is to sunlight, would surely race home & report no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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ACHENTX's Student Council's annual Student Summit, Saturday, February 18, at the UTA Fort Worth Campus.
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Benjamin Isgur retweeted
US Covid hospitalizations are at a plateau ~40,000, which is ~4-fold where we were in April this year.
Likewise, deaths are at ~500 each day, and confirmed cases still hover about 100,000 per day.
This is not what containing the virus looks like.
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Downloads of the top mental health apps have declined by over 30% since January 2021
blog.apptopia.com/mental-hea…
@apptopia #mentalhealth #digitalhealth @kirkpatara
Benjamin Isgur retweeted
Why isn't the contrast dye shortage due to supply chain issues in China, affecting so many aspects of medical practice and patient imaging, getting national media coverage? And how did we get to rely 100% on China for contrast dye?
Benjamin Isgur retweeted
COVID Update: We are experiencing a significant wave of case growth.
We may be getting clues as to what endemic COVID looks like. If so, it feels different from other endemic diseases in some important ways. 1/ – at Pasadena, CA
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Check out this editorial on residential segregation and cities’ responses to COVID in AJPH from one of our new faculty members and Associate Professor Dr. Tse-Chuan Yang. @UTMBProvost @utmbnews
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Benjamin Isgur retweeted
The primary social determinant of health is wealth.
Could it be that the best social determinant intervention is moneyinstead of the panoply of feel-good programs (meals, transport, etc) that have minimal demonstrated effect on the health of populations?
Benjamin Isgur retweeted
I was trying to describe how Covid gobbles up all the time we ID docs used to spend on other stuff -- there are only so many hours in the day.
Fortunately, my sister came to the rescue with a clever graphic, which explains it perfectly. Latest: blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obse…
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After a successful collaboration that resulted in the creation of one of the nation’s newest medical schools, the former TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine is now the TCU School of Medicine. #LeadOnTCU tcu.edu/news/2022/white-coat…
Benjamin Isgur retweeted
With infections spiking, can be hard to see the light
But the peak of this wave is coming into view
Cases now falling in NYC, DC
MA wastewater shows big declines
Yes, parts of US still rising. And hospitals have many tough weeks ahead
But nationally, wave will crest. And soon
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🚨 Today I let my colleagues know that 2022 — my 30th year in journalism in Texas — will be my last as @texastribune’s CEO. There’s never a good time to leave a job you love, but there’s a right time. This is the right time for me and for us texastribune.org/2022/01/12/… #txlege
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THREAD:
This is an important study - supports anecdotes and other work by @awyllie13
Virus growing and detectable in saliva days earlier than the nose!
Both PCR & Ag in nose lag saliva 1-3 days
In Nose, PCR is 1 day faster than Ag (As Expected)
1/
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Benjamin Isgur retweeted
The primary purpose of vaccines is to prevent serious illness and death
To that end, vaccines are working remarkably well
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I can’t express how proud I am of our Aerospace Medicine Program! Another one of our graduates is an astronaut! @UTMB_PrevMed @UTMBProvost @utmbnews @utsystem @UTMBGSBS
Congratulations Anil S. Menon, MD, MS, MPH! Dr. Menon was selected as 1 of 10 for NASA's 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class! Dr. Menon completed the UTMB Aerospace Medicine Residency in 2012 and UTMB MPH in 2011. @UTMB_PrevMed @UTMBProvost nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-…
ALT Credit: NASA
West Campus’ housing affordability crisis is taking a toll on UT students kxan.com/news/local/austin/w…
