Archive for the ‘Prasad’ Category

Open concerns with recent RCTs for Maternal RSV vaccination

April 24 | Posted by mrossol | Health, Prasad

Increased preterm birth and lack of effect on all-cause lower respiratory tract infections are serious limitations to the evidence base and should warrant larger RCTs. Source: Open concerns with recent RCTs for Maternal RSV vaccination

APR 14,... Read more

UCSF has match day outdoors & plans on contact tracing… in 2024

March 16 | Posted by mrossol | Crazy, Critical Thinking, Medicine, Prasad, Stupidity

What are medical students learning? Source: UCSF has match day outdoors & plans on contact tracing… in 2024

MAR 16, 2024
I didn’t attend this year’s match day, but I cheered for the terrific... Read more

Hospitals that reinstate universal masking with flimsy surgical masks are anti-science

December 31 | Posted by mrossol | Prasad, Science

Not even 1 hospital is running a cluster randomized trial Source: Hospitals that reinstate universal masking with flimsy surgical masks are anti-science

DEC 31, 2023
Recently, a number of hospitals have reinstituted mask requirements... Read more

Parents who still mask their kids

December 24 | Posted by mrossol | CDC NIH, Health, Prasad, Science

It’s not fair to children Source: Parents who still mask their kids

DEC 24, 2023
Everywhere I go, life has returned to normal. Most people acknowledge that school closure was an error, and that... Read more

ARTESIA. To Treat or Not To Treat

November 28 | Posted by mrossol | Health, Prasad, Science

Source: ARTESIA. To Treat or Not To Treat – by Adam Cifu, MD

To Treat or Not to Treat Brief, asymptomatic atrial fibrillation seven years later