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Noma is a little-known disease that affects people living in poverty, especially children. Noma is also preventable and treatable. We’re a part of the campaign to have noma recognised as a neglected tropical disease by the WHO ⬇️ bit.ly/3wYyfxy

Please re-Tweet this reason why hospitals must allow family caregivers to be present when people with #Alzheimers disease and other forms of #dementia are being evaluated or receiving treatment and care.

This is our medical evacuation train in Ukraine. By the end of 2022, the train evacuated over 2,600 patients. This included children from an orphanage, wounded elderly people, people with mobility issues, and patients who had lost limbs. Follow one of the journeys back in May:

Hospitals ran zero randomized control trials globally for this policy that should have ended after everyone had been offered a vaccine, at the latest. When the last hospital throws away this mandate, it will be a great day. cpr.org/2023/02/27/uch…

We’re continuing to see a rise in measles cases in many MSF International projects, in line with global increases reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022. An effective measles vaccine was introduced in the 1960s… so why is this happening? What can be done?

A recurring theme on #MedTwitter is frustration with #LookAlike medications. We get angry at drug companies & demand they fix what we think is a simple problem. But it’s not. It’s very complex, even bordering on “wicked”. I’m hoping this 🧵 might help tease that out. 1/

Stoked to meet Dr. Wil Van Cleve, a fellow MSFer and a NOMA warrior at the #IARS2023. Looking forward to working together MSF International Doctors w/o Borders Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @msf_field

Please check out this interview on Sudan: "We hear that ambulances have been turned back/shot at while transferring patients. Health workers are fearing for their own lives...doctors' union reporting many hospitals in Khartoum are out of service." NPR npr.org/sections/goats…

Malaria is preventable and treatable, yet it continues to claim over 600,000 lives each year. Make a difference by donating to our #WorldMalariaDay2023 campaign for Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium. givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/wo…

Amid continuing intense fighting across parts of #Sudan, our teams are still treating people where we're able to work. Find out how and where, and how we plan to scale up our medical response 👇 msf.org/msf-responds-m…

For anyone who's wondering how to help the victims of conflict right now, MSF's efforts to support the populations affected by the conflict in Sudan deserve your support.

This is the core of what MSF does for the surgical needs of populations in distress.

Four times a year, a team of highly trained surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses arrives in Sokoto, #Nigeria, to perform reconstructive surgery for #noma survivors. These surgeries take hours. This photo is from May 2023, where the surgeries were led by an all-Nigerian team.

America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning. My take:

I wrote a two part piece for Sensible Medicine about my my belief that LORs do not belong in the residency application process. Thanks to the SM crew for the soapbox. [Part 1] open.substack.com/pub/sensibleme… [Part 2] sensible-med.com/p/letters-of-r… Thanks to Adam Cifu for the encouragement.

You've been diagnosed with a terrible illness. Do you want to see the good doctor or the great doctor? Is there a hierarchy of achievements and successes by which we can figure out which doctor has a better chance of curing you?

This is how to spend a cold November night, for sure.

POLL: New research from FIRE reveals half of college faculty say mandatory DEI pledges are unacceptable in hiring and promotion. These ideological litmus tests are far too common in higher ed, but professors have their own ideas. More stats ⬇️