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🔗 Psychiatric care and the 1918 flu pandemic by Dr Claire Hilton
🔗 Photos From a Century of Epidemics
🔗 Experiences of Domestic Violence and Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
There is a high prevalence and increased likelihood of being a victim of domestic violence in men and women across all diagnostic categories, compared to people without disorders. Longitudinal studies are needed to identify pathways to being a victim of domestic violence to optimise healthcare responses.
🔗 How to Edit Your Own Writing
Writing is hard, but don’t overlook the difficulty — and the importance — of editing your own work before letting others see it. Here’s how.
🔗 مصر: أطباء نفسيون يدعمون زملاءهم في جبهة «كوفيد ـ 19»
Media coverage of my unsuccessful initiative back in early 2020.
🔗 Smoking history is an important risk factor for severe COVID-19
Current evidence suggests that an association exists between smoking and COVID-19 severity, in line with recent research which has shown that smoking is associated with increased risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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tobacco smoking appears to be the most important avoidable risk factor for a poorer prognosis in COVID-19
🔗 The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever
🔗 China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days
In retrospect, doubtful that would have made any difference given how everyone messed up in the end.
🔗 Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster
Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears. Failings in February may have cost thousands of lives
🔗 Coronavirus in a psychiatric hospital: 'It's the worst of all worlds'
Social distancing in a psychiatric facility is easier said than done
🔗 At least 17 staff members at Egypt's Kasr El-Aini Hospital test positive for coronavirus
Ahram Online , Sunday 19 Apr 2020
🔗 Air pollution linked to far higher Covid-19 death rates, study finds
🔗 Jonathan Bisson: full interview
Full interview with Professor Jonathan Bisson from Cardiff University, talking about the new PTSD Prevention and Treatment Guidelines published in March 2019 by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
🔗 Evidence-based prescribing for post-traumatic stress disorder
There is strong research evidence to support the pharmacological treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a second line to trauma-focused psychological interventions. Fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline and venlafaxine are the best-evidenced drugs, with lower-level evidence for other medications. It is important that prescribing for PTSD is evidence-based.
🔗 Why Psychiatric Wards Are Uniquely Vulnerable to the Coronavirus
🔗 Egypt's Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship
The Evergiven saga
🔗 Amelia
Wordpress plugin that offers automated booking.
🔗 Mu - Palm OS Emulator
Mu is the first Palm OS emulator capable of actually playing Palm games. It is currently capable of playing most 160×160 Palm OS 4 software perfectly. There are a few hardware abstraction glitches and sound FIFO inaccuracies but other than that the device works and the audio plays normally, with no hacks done to the OS.
🔗 Overdose Deaths Have Surged During the Pandemic, C.D.C. Data Shows
NYT:
The latest numbers surpass even the yearly tolls during the height of the opioid epidemic and mark a reversal of progress against addiction in recent years.
🔗 Some people have decided they are always going to wear face masks from now on
🔗 People systematically overlook subtractive changes
people systematically default to searching for additive transformations, and consequently overlook subtractive transformations
🔗 Vaporwave
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Vaporwave is a music genre branching from electronic Chillwave. But the unique and iconic visual aesthetic cultivated alongside it is now, debatably, more popular and recognizable than the music itself. Vaporwave, as an aesthetic and movement, has been described as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on modern consumerism and the soulless glamour of late capitalism. Its purposeful vagueness has led to more overt and blatant offshoots of Vaporwave, like Fashwave (which attempts to co-opt a lot of Vaporwave symbolism to promote a fascist ideology) or Laborwave (which removes the ambiguity of Vaporwave's capitalist critiques in favor of promoting a Marxist ideology), though both of them also tend to blend in a lot …
🔗 How to say no.
Templates to help you say no in any situation.
🔗 Cochrane - Task Exchange
TaskExchange connects people working in health evidence with people who have the time and skills to help.