Nicholas J Talley

Excellent review on #longCOVID - 10% affected at least, all ages, risk of severe medical issues, may last years. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Latest publication on oesophageal drug delivery advances. #MedTwitter tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Read the evidence for yourself. In the peer reviewed MJA. Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes. #MedTwitter mja.com.au/journal/2023/2…

Horror story. Public guardian requires man with dementia to live in nursing home against his will. One of many. abc.net.au/news/2023-03-2…

Books matter! “Sensitivity” readers - really new “thought police”? Should have no place in our published literature

The American Journal of Gastroenterology: Reflections on 2022 journals.lww.com/ajg/Citation/2…

A Man With Asymptomatic Ulcerated White Plaques on the Soft Palate | Dermatology | JAMA | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Well deserved! Congratulations John.

Are you a medical student, clinician and/or researcher with a penchant for photography? For a chance to be published in the MJA, send your best non-clinical photo to cswannell@mja.com.au along with details of where, when and with what device/settings it was shot. #notCOVID

Just appalling.

Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat? sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/s…

Brilliant essay. The Easy Elective—A Surprising Revelation in Medical School ja.ma/2ZBfEsd

How is this justifiable in a country that is basically still at the pandemic peak? Unless people have an absolutely vital reason to be flying, they should stay on the ground for now IMO. And if they must fly, they shouldn’t be crammed together like sardines in a (flying) tin can:

An interesting and well conducted clinical trial. Acupuncture Eases Postprandial Distress Syndrome medpagetoday.com/gastroenterolo…

Very concerning that there are increasing reports of this rare disease that can be devastating, linked to #COVID. So far children but Kawasaki known to affect adults rarely. #COVID_19: How to Recognize and Manage Kawasaki-like Syndrome medscape.com/viewarticle/93… via @medscape

I'm having a VERY HARD TIME getting motivated for writing scientific abstracts for 2 major conferences scheduled later this year, w submission deadlines looming, that I'm pretty sure will either be cancelled or I'll be unable to attend due to travel restrictions. #AcademicTwitter

Excellent summary but can’t relax: #coronavirus modelling Australia on track, detecting most cases: “social distancing measures take time to have an effect stopping transmission. It would take time to become visible if we back off too early”. #COVID19au theconversation.com/latest-coronav…

#COVID and rapid publication of preprints: benefits and warnings. #medtwitter #COVID19au nytimes.com/2020/04/14/sci…

COPD & smoking on severity #Covid-19. Pooled OR COPD & development severe Covid-19 4.38; OR ongoing smoking 1.98. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32293753

Negative RCT data on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) #COVID19. Kaplan-Meier estimate for negative conversion rate was 85.4% in the HCQ plus standard of care (SOC) arm, vs 81.3% in the SOC-only group (P = .341). Methodological issues limit interpretability. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…