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Lancelot Pinto

@lancelot_pinto

Pulmonologist.Epidemiologist. Clinician-researcher. Views personal.

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Soumya Swaminathan(@doctorsoumya) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Air quality is too important to ignore. Needs different levels of government to work together to address it. Shashi Verma from TfL writes about how London cleaned its air. theprint.in/opinion/this-i… Our Common Air CEEW CSEINDIA MoEF&CC Smart Cities Mission NITI Aayog

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This has been our strategy. Testing only makes sense if a.treatment exists and b. It is likely to alter trajectory.Testing high risk individuals for SARS-CoV2 and Influenza meet these criteria; one pays an exorbitant cost to just know and do nothing for the rest of the panel.

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Interruption of drugs has always been known to be a cause of the emergence of resistant strains. Such drug stock outs have potentially grave consequences for TB control in India. Tabassum Scroll.in Chandrakant Lahariya Anant Bhan Chapal Mehra Dinesh S. Thakur scroll.in/article/106608…

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Its tomorrow. Madhu Pai, MD, PhD and I spoke to barkha dutt Mojo Story on where India stands in its battle against TB and the need to address inequities.
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Rema Nagarajan(@RemaNagarajan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'...treatment interruptions on such a scale will compromise the outcomes of individual patients and the programme, as also worsen the drug resistance situation. It will undermine trust of our private health care partners and will weaken active search for missing cases.'

'...treatment interruptions on such a scale will compromise the outcomes of individual patients and the programme, as also worsen the drug resistance situation. It will undermine trust of our private health care partners and will weaken active search for missing cases.'
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Join us for an enlightening panel discussion on “The New TB Manifesto” featuring TB survivors and experts. March 23rd, Saturday at 4 PM. Don’t miss out!

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Join us for an enlightening panel discussion on “The New TB Manifesto” featuring TB survivors and experts. March 23rd, Saturday at 4 PM. Don’t miss out! Register Now to Participate : forms.gle/tbW5eUgb5vdzf2… #ourtbmanifesto #worldtbday #endtb
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Fun fact: If Celine Dion sang only the vowels in her name, it would be in the lyrics to Old McDonalds Farm.

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🎉 The wait is over – the much-anticipated has commenced!
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🎉 The wait is over – the much-anticipated #IWLHAsia24 has commenced! Get ready for a day packed with groundbreaking research, insightful discussions and invaluable networking opportunities. Join us in Goa, India ! #Respiratorymedicine #LungHealth #LungDiseases #MedTwitterIndia
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Sleepiness associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been associated with road traffic accidents. Came across this reel which exemplifies this! Although this is meant to be funny, one must get evaluated if symptomatic instagram.com/reel/C1V7ozzoI… ERS American Academy of Sleep Medicine

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If you are a lung cancer doctor (as I am), your job is not to judge why they 'brought it on themselves' by smoking. Many of them don't, but whether they smoked or not shouldn't matter. If you judge them, you're in the wrong profession. Heal thyself, physician...

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Rajani Surendar Bhat(@RajaniSurendarB) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Insomnia and cardiovascular risk in women
An important thread, especially in these times.
Multitasking on the home and work front, biological changes in middle age , all of these add up to higher risk.
Thank you for this informative thread Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy
We need to address this

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