Important review of stewardship in ECMO #IDSky 🔑 points: -ID should be part of multi-disciplinary team -More interventions not associated with 👍 outcomes -Lots of gaps in 📚 Thanks to @mirandapharmdmph.bsky.social and team for writing! www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.org/article/S119...

Antimicrobial stewardship during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: challenges and new perspectives

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has emerged as a crucial modality in managing severe cardiac and respiratory failure; however, nosocomial infections and complex antimicrobial prescribing ch...

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Yesterday’s run 🏃🏻‍♀️ before the major storm kicks in today. ❄️❄️❄️

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/w... Fantastic story. 🏃🏻‍♀️

50 Years Ago, He Was an Olympian. At 80, He’s Just as Happy to Finish Last.

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Thoroughly enjoyed this by @paulsaxmd.bsky.social in @nejm.org blogs.nejm.org/hiv-id-obser... My in-laws often complain about the lack of physical exam by their MDs as an inadequacy. Yet my 1st year nursing student daughter is learning to use the stethoscope and sphyngomanometer in her skills lab.

What Use Is the Physical Examination in Current Medical Practice?

Share Tweet Pin Mail SMS A very interesting, quite scholarly perspective appeared in the NEJM last month called, “Strategies to Reinvigorate the Bedside Clinical ...

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www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... As a runner 🏃🏻, this seems like good news but will have to read the paper itself to understand more.

Marathon Running Does Not Appear to Damage Heart

Ten-year follow-up of male marathoners showed no long-term negative effects on heart health.

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First proper ❄️ winter run this season. Very refreshing 10km.

📢 Registration for #ISHLT2026 is NOW OPEN! Join your global, multidisciplinary colleagues in Toronto. ✨ New this year: you can book your hotel at exclusive room rates while registering. ➡️ Register by 4 February 📅 to qualify for the early registration fee: 🔗 bit.ly/4aFzxTd #TransplantSky #MedSky

Yes, yes I can outrun the LRT 🏃🏻‍♀️and I’m a slow runner! 😂 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Could you outrun the train? Finch LRT takes 55 minutes to cover 10.3-km route | CBC News

Northwest Toronto's newly-opened light-rail transit (LRT) line is getting its first taste of rush hour Monday — but it doesn't appear to be rushing.

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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... What a lovely story. 👏👏👏

Lost for 5 months in the Northern Rockies, this cat is heading home to Oklahoma for Christmas | CBC News

After five months lost in northeastern B.C, a beloved family cat is heading home for the holidays. Since July, Shadow the cat has been surviving in the wilderness of the Northern Rockies.

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At a few recent talks, I showed the overlapping distribution between level of deprivation and density of #antibiotics use using the example of England (and others from HIC). A targeted approach is needed to better support clinicians in #antimicrobialstewardship www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Blackpool report: why do England’s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals?

Clinicians in deprived areas are overwhelmed by generational ill health and poverty

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Three university students debating loudly in the quiet zone of the train about when to use t-test, one-way ANOVA and two-way ANOVA. Trying to memorize the rules before their exam. Fond memories for me from undergrad stats course. 🥸 TBH I didn’t understand those concepts till much later! #biostats

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Any Canadian who asks for HIV prevention drugs should get them, doctors say | CBC Radio

For the first time since 2017, Canadian doctors have released updated clinical guidelines for antiretroviral medications used to prevent HIV.

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #AntibioticResistance

Antibiotic resistance: how a pioneering trial is using old drugs to save babies from sepsis

The infection is responsible for 800,000 newborn deaths each year, but clinics in eight countries are working together to find new treatments

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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 20 Oct! @angelahuttner.bsky.social & @erinmccreary.bsky.social welcome Barbara Trautner @bwtrautner.bsky.social & Valéry Lavergne, the co-chairs of the first IDSA guidelines for complicated UTIs, to discuss this important milestone! #IDSky #UTIsky #MedSky #clinmicro

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... I’ve only ever done half marathons. While they were not necessarily “fun” in the physical sense, they were fun in the “look what I’ve accomplished!” 🙌sense. I aim to improve my PB each time but enjoying the journey is much more important! 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️

Running on empty: why are so many marathon runners so miserable?

One in four endurance runners displays ‘worryingly high’ levels of anxiety and depression, according to a study led by a man who has himself run more than 400 marathons. Isn’t exercise supposed to mak...

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This brings me joy! 🐕🦮🐕‍🦺🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️🏊 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘He loves splashing around’: UK pools host doggy dips for pets and owners

Gourock outdoor pool in Inverclyde drops its humans-only policy on last day of the swim season – part of a trend at lidos around the country

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Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of germs to evade the treatment effects of antimicrobial drugs. This JAMA Patient Page describes antimicrobial resistance, its risk factors, and how to decrease the spread of antibiotic resistance. ja.ma/46ieWAE

Excellent pro-con debate on selective digestive tract decomtaination (SDD) www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295... @cmicomms.bsky.social

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

www.cbc.ca/player/play/... As a runner 🏃🏻‍♀️ I love this story so much! May be I will sign up for next year !! 🇨🇦

#TheMoment Mark Carney surprised a volunteer at an Ontario race

Agnes Jung tells The National about the moment she ran alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney when he appeared at the Haliburton Forest Trail Race in Ontario.

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A remarkable and moving human interest story. The Millionaire Who Left Wall Street to Become a Paramedic www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/n...

The Millionaire Who Left Wall Street to Become a Paramedic

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Climate-related disasters have impacted nearly two-thirds of US drug production facilities from 2019 to 2024, highlighting vulnerabilities in the #pharmaceutical supply chain. ja.ma/470sGSI

A beautiful late afternoon run today. 🏃🏻‍♀️ Full view of Toronto by the lakefront. P.S. There is a hint of fall 🍂🍂🍂🍁🍁🍁 in the air.

Nice book for users of medical literature (clinicians), and producers of medical literature (researchers) alike. Tom and David Chivers explained statistical concepts with common examples from the news, often with humour. I LOL while listening to it on a run🏃‍♀️ www.goodreads.com/book/show/57...

How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Stats in the News (and …

‘Even one glass of wine a day raises the risk of cancer…

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Went down a small rabbit hole to refresh my understanding of case-cohort design for a project. Here is a nice review in the journal #Epidemiology, comparing case-cohort to nested case-control, which is more common. #ResearchMethods fascinates me! journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr...

The Case for Case–Cohort: An Applied Epidemiologist’s Guide ... : Epidemiology

recision for addressing a singular research question, but case–cohort studies have broader efficiency and superior flexibility. Despite this, case–cohort designs are comparatively underutilized in the...

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Fewer than 10% of published observational studies in this sample used DAGs to justify confounder selection. This is a huge missed opportunity for both readers and researchers. DAGs are invaluable in research design and critical appraisal.

Miranda So PharmD MPH (Epidemiology)@mirandapharmdmph.bsky.social · last yr.

Enjoyed reading this review from @jamanetworkopen.com ! I have been providing an educational series for team members about reseach methods. We had lots of discussions about how to manage confounding in observational studies. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hazy sunset due to #wildfires 🏃🏻‍♀️

Interesting study in @jamanetworkopen.com on vancomycin PO to prevent recurrent C. difficile infection. Speaks to the challenges of study design to evaluate effects of prophylaxis. I commend the authors for their efforts. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Oral Vancomycin for Prevention of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection

This randomized clinical trial examines whether prophylactic oral vancomycin vs placebo reduces recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection in adults receiving antibiotics for another indication.

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Enjoyed reading this review from @jamanetworkopen.com ! I have been providing an educational series for team members about reseach methods. We had lots of discussions about how to manage confounding in observational studies. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Confounder Selection in Observational Studies in High-Impact Journals

This cross-sectional study investigates whether there have been improvements over time in the methods reported for selecting confounders in observational studies published in the highest impact factor...

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