Midhun

🕯️ It is with profound grief that we at CMC Vellore mourn the passing of Prof. K.V. Johny — the Father of Kidney Transplantation in India. 🕯️ A giant has left us. His legacy is eternal. 🧵 A tribute to a legend: 🙏🏻 In the late 1960s, Prof. Kaivilayil V Johny trained in renal transplantation at Adelaide, Australia. He returned with a mission, and changed Indian Nephrology forever. On 2nd February 1971, Prof. KV Johny & Prof. Mohan Rao performed India's FIRST successful kidney transplant at CMC Vellore — a defining moment in the history of Indian medicine. He founded the Department of Nephrology at CMC Vellore in 1971 - the first of its kind, and launched India's first DM Nephrology training programme, seeding a generation of kidney specialists across the nation. Under his leadership, CMC Vellore became the gold standard for nephrology & renal transplantation in India. He was not just a clinician — he was a builder, a teacher, and a visionary who trained nephrologists who now lead kidney care across India and the world. "A visionary who opened the doors of kidney transplantation in India and transformed the future of renal care." Rest in peace, Prof. Johny. CMC Vellore and Indian Nephrology will forever stand on the shoulders of your life's work. 🙏 @OffCMCVellore @isn_india @IndiaSoTx @ISNEdu @ISNkidneycare @WomenNeph_india @ttsorg @ASNKidney @goKDIGO

@ThaEuropeanLad Thiago silva

Players we always call by their 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲 I’ll go first: Joao Felix

#RedSalute to Comrade V. S. Achuthanandan (1923-2025). Former Chief Minister of Kerala, a lifelong Communist, and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Comrade VS has died. His spirit inspires us.

@catale7a @theliverdoc I can understand why all these pseudoscientific healers are offended, but why are all these 'stock bross' getting hurt by @theliverdoc posts..

99.99% of Liver Doc's critics are criticizing his attitude, ego, and language; only 0.01% were critiquing his argument, because they know he is right. 99.99% of Vidit's critics are criticizing his pseudoscience argument, rightly so - And good for India. #Opinion

1/20 Attention please.

@SecKennedy @guardian Why no community notes for this BS?

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In conformance with the pharma-financed mainstream media’s mantric ritual of dutifully parroting the propaganda tropes spoon-fed them by vaccine makers and their captive regulators, @guardian on Friday pronounced thimerosal, the ethylmercury-based vaccine preservative, “safe.” Opining under the headline, “CDC vaccine panel to review ingredient RFK Jr has targeted for removal,” The Guardian authoritatively assures: “The preservative has been deemed safe.” The Guardian did not bother to cite any peer-reviewed study. Journalists don’t seem to read those anymore. Instead, it referenced a fact check website operated by the Pharma-funded American Academy of Pediatrics. @AmerAcadPeds likewise cites no peer-reviewed study to support this claim or its equally terse assertion that “Thimerosal has been removed from all routine childhood vaccines.” This is another treadworn lie of the vaccine industry. There are high bolus doses of mercury in flu shots, which CDC recommends to pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy and as a routine vaccine for children at six months and in every year of life. Between conception and age 18, a compliant American child today could get a cumulative load of as much as 500 mcg of ethylmercury from multidose flu shots—nearly double of what they were once getting from all the childhood vaccines put together. Now let’s look at The Guardian claim that thimerosal is safe. A quick search at the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed and PubChem websites nets thousands of studies on search terms such as: mercury neurotoxicity,[1],[2] mercury and development,[3],[4] and mercury and brain,[5],[6] and hundreds that identify thimerosal as a potent neurotoxin, carcinogen, mutagen, and endocrine disruptor. There has never been a study that proves thimerosal safe. In early 2001, Director of the FDA Office of Vaccine Research and Review, the late William Egan, admitted under oath before Congress that thimerosal’s safety had never been studied in human beings.[7],[8] I leave it to the reader to speculate as to why CDC has not performed such studies in the intervening 24 years as it dosed hundreds of millions of American children and pregnant moms with mercury-laden flu shots. Furthermore, CDC has no existing guidelines for safe exposure to ethylmercury.[9] But let’s put all that peer-reviewed science aside and just look at what the government and the vaccine industry say about thimerosal. Thimerosal’s label advises against its use during pregnancy, pointing out that thimerosal has never been shown to be safe and that it causes mutations in mammals.[10],[11] Thimerosal’s material safety data sheet (MSDS) acknowledges that thimerosal is “toxic,” has “Nervous System and Reproductive Effects,” and is “mutagenic in mammalian cells,” and that exposure to mercury in thimerosal “in utero and in children can cause mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe motor coordination impairment.”[12] The MSDS lists a grim inventory of dozens of other devastating injuries from thimerosal exposure.[13] In 2001, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) revised its thimerosal toxicity statement, warning that thimerosal is “toxic by ingestion and inhalation.”[14] The California EPA recognizes thimerosal as a reproductive toxicant in the clearest possible language: “Thimerosal dissociates in the body to ethyl mercury. The evidence for its reproductive toxicity includes severe mental retardation or malformations in human offspring who were poisoned when their mothers were exposed to ethyl mercury or thimerosal while pregnant, studies in animals demonstrating developmental toxicity after exposure to either ethyl mercury or thimerosal, and data showing interconversion to other forms of mercury that also clearly cause reproductive toxicity. The US EPA, the authoritative body relied on when mercury and mercury compounds were listed under California’s Proposition 65, currently identifies mercury and mercury compounds as causing reproductive toxicity.” The amount of ethylmercury in a flu shot is 25,000 times EPA’s safety level for drinking water.[15],[16] Federal and state laws provide that whenever expired thimerosal vaccines are disposed of, they constitute a hazardous waste. In 1998, FDA banned thimerosal in all over-the-counter products, ending its use in creams, eye medicine, and disinfectants like mercurochrome. It’s ironic that CDC still recommends its injection into babies. A 2000 study by the National Research Council found that prenatal and infant mercury exposures cause multiple impacts to basic brain development by disrupting the division and migration of neuronal cells.[17],[18],[19] According to a National Toxicology Program PowerPoint presentation entitled “Comparative Toxicity of Ethyl and Methyl Mercury”: “Ethylmercury is a neurotoxin. Infants may be more susceptible than adults. Ethylmercury exposure from vaccines (added to dietary exposures to methylmercury) probably caused neurotoxic responses (likely subtle) in some children.”[20] A 2005 NIH study commissioned by FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and performed by the National Toxicity Program (NTP) obliterated the industry claim that the ethylmercury in vaccines is less toxic than the heavily regulated methylmercury in fish, finding that the ethylmercury in thimerosal crosses the blood-brain barrier, lodges in the brain, and metabolizes into the most toxic form of mercury at double the rate of methylmercury.[21] A subsequent study found that this highly toxic mercury remains in the brain for over 27 years.[22] A 2000 study in Neurotoxicology by Dr. William Slikker Jr., former head of the FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research, directly foretold the results of a 2005 NIH-funded study, reporting that “Thimerosal (sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate) crosses the blood-brain and placental barriers and results in appreciable mercury content in tissues including brain.”[23] A 2017 NIH/CDC study links miscarriage to flu vaccines, particularly in the first trimester. Pregnant women vaccinated in the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 flu seasons had two times greater odds of having a miscarriage within 28 days of receiving the vaccine. [24] In women who had received the H1N1 vaccine in the previous flu season, the odds of having a miscarriage within 28 days were 7.7 times greater than in women who did not receive a flu shot during their pregnancy. These results are all the more significant when considering the fact that 7 of the 13 authors on the study had potential conflicts of interest such as having received research support from GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, Pfizer, Merck, Novartis, Novavax, and other Big Pharma companies. One author, Frank DeStefano, was head of CDC’s immunization Safety Branch. It’s noteworthy that these authors chose not to differentiate outcomes between thimerosal-containing flu shots and those that did not contain thimerosal. Around half the flu shots available at that time contained thimerosal. On October 1, 2001, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences Immunization Safety Review Committee (ISR) issued a report concluding that the link between thimerosal and the rise of neurological injuries in children, including autism, is “biologically plausible,”[25] and recommended the termination of all thimerosal-preserved vaccines. An entire bibliography of pharmacokinetic studies by independent scientists, prestigious universities, and prominent research institutes published in high-gravitas journals, attest to thimerosal’s powerful neurotoxicity, and show that mercury tends to accumulate (and remain for considerable periods of time, years to decades) in the brains of primates and other animals after injection of thimerosal-containing vaccines.[26] It’s worth noting just one of these, a well-known Russian study from 1977 led by Dr. N.D. Mukhtarova, found that the majority of adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those currently given to American children in vaccines were still suffering neurological injury and neuropathology several years after the exposure. These symptoms included decreased vision, hearing, memory, vertigo, and pain and numbness in the hands and feet.[27],[28] The Guardian is blind and scientifically baseless repetition of empty industry assurances about thimerosal safety is yet another proof that journalists, and particularly science journalists, have now devolved into obsequious stenographers for Big Pharma.

Since the current world believes MBBS is just a gate for NEET PG, answers may list here as NO! However if you consider it as part of learning and grooming as a doctor and person, it is YES! You are what you see, hear, experience and are surrounded by! If you are here for शिक्षा (learnings) yes it matters and if for परीक्षा (enterance test) it doesn't! As an examiner we can differentiate very easily the level of impact of an institution! It takes years to build an institution! Why AIIMS still the first choice? Teachers and teaching make a difference! The college doesn't matter narrative is set by low ranked colleges and coaching websites!! #MedTwitter

New banner on the Kop: “It was always Liverpool.”

#IJSOVisualabstract #VAsaturday #IASOIJSOinitiative #Breastcancer Interesting take on management of TNBC in a tertiary breast cancer care center in India. #medtwitter #TNBC doi.org/10.1007/s13193…

Liverpool fans absolutely rattled Pep Guardiola

Pep showing the games he has lost in the last month

Mom knows ball

Spurs rob the richest and donate to the poor. The Robin Hood of Premier League.

🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️father deserves to be behind bars for rest of his life.

@rjVACHAS One of the most absurd reasons I have ever heard, for not to choose DNB/DrnB. Tweet should have been 'one of the many reasons to "take MD/MS in your own state government med college" would be.....

One of the many reasons not to choose DNB/DrNB would be the contacts you make across specialities and hierarchies in a govt medical college. The contacts who know you and your work culture. After all nothing beats the mood of a medical college.

Another one,😎 Bird beak #MedTwitter

Finally we got what we were looking for , "YOGA" in modern medicine...... Qn was about the management of Tension pneumothorax. #MedTwitter

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@samecowin @theliverdoc @svembu Neither modern medicine nor villager can heal a wound within a day.

@theliverdoc @svembu Calling out every other thing unscientific is not science. For an injury the modern hospital took a day to heal. Similar injury was healed by an illiterate villager in a minute . If medical science rejects everything like you do, it will stop to evolve .

"Health illiterate boomer uncle" Stay away from arrogant doctors - that is the best health tip I can give anyone. The best doctors I know are all uniformly humble because they know just how extremely complex the human body is and how much the body and mind are intertwined. They also know accepted medical wisdom keeps changing so they keep an open mind. And great doctors don't do stupid name calling about people they don't know.

@techstarsrk @theliverdoc 'NCBI' report?

Daxsaab, When the post is about benefits of barefoot walking and you favour “minimalist shoes” but not comparing it to actual common footwear. Well, good job diverting the topic & misleading innocent audience. Common sense is, to compare what’s common ! I gave u NCBI report, now you deny that too? 😂

Sridhar Uncle, maybe this is a more humble way of telling you, dont post content you have no idea about? Leave doctors and healthworkers to do what they have to do, including demystifying misinformation from science-illiterates like yourself. Stick to Zoho and your tech stuff? Is that too much to ask? Or was that not humble enough? Leave healthcare to those who are trained in it. Health illiterates like you, peddling pseudoscience to your large followers are increasing workload on practicing doctors like me [who are exhaustingly trying to improve public health education], by adding more fuel to the misinformation fire that is already lit high by other health influenzas across this country. Do us all a favor and "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging," because clearly, your "healthcare posts" are absolute garbage. And also, do wear some light footwear. It helps better than being bare-foot. Here is some evidence on it - a study in geriatric populace (which may be of use to you) and which I HUMBLY submit. Was that soft enough for you. Hope I did not make you cry. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… STOP PEDDLING NONSENSE.