Wondering about the scale and scope of published medical articles on AI including ChatGPT? Read this interesting commentary by Nigel Curtis and Ellie McDonald #PIDJ #ESPID #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence journals.lww.com/pidj/fulltext/…

Treatment with penicillins, gentamicin, cephalosporins, carbapenems, macrolides, and aminoglycosides, is associated with decreased abundances of beneficial Bifidobacteriaceae and Lactobacillus. Thank you Juliane Wurm Nigel Curtis for your important work. frontiersin.org/journals/aller…

Just OUT. Game over for masking kids Led by Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD We show NEJM kid masking paper fails to replicate Paper should be retracted if NEJM has any scruples Read the paper. Masking kids prob doesn't work and we don't know bc no RCTs acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

Out now in Annals of Int Med👇 Our re-analysis of an observational study published in NEJM claiming dropping school mask mandates had the effect of increasing covid cases We show why the study's conclusion was faulty & How analyzing only select data can give misleading results 1/

Nigel Curtis continues his spirited debates (ChatGPT: objects hotly, champions reform) re low-response surveys providing bad data, eg #longCOVID in kids, off-script #antibiotics Rein in sensationalism! Exclamation marks under consideration... @MCRI_for_Kids pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39348494/

If you are looking after a child with meningitis, what dose of ceftriaxone do you use? 50 mg/kg BD or 100 mg/kg daily? Excited to see our manuscript in #AAC Thanks to the team work of @GweeAmanda Nigel Curtis + many not on twitter UniMelb MDHS Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) UCL

How good are the various CSF parameters for diagnosis of meningitis in infants? WCC thresholds sensitivity 86%–91% Glucose poor predictor Two centre retrosepctive study 🇦🇺 Nigel Curtis, @GweeAmanda adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

Join the Xodus.

Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election theguardian.com/technology/202…

Swifties say they’re shaking off X over Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win. Read the full story: wired.com/story/taylor-s…

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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

The 'Xodus' is picking up steam. bsky.jazco.dev/stats

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome 🥳 bsky.app/download

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#ACPID24 participants being welcomed to #HongKong during the #ACPID24 opening ceremony. Thanks to Nigel Curtis for these👍videos & photos showcasing local cultural highlights!

Elon Musk's X has gone from having nearly 127 times more active US users than Bluesky to just over 10 times as many.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ct… For more details, see: bsky.app/profile/nicole… DrNic Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) The Infection Flagship, MCRI, Melbourne