Elizabeth Loder, MD, MPH

Some triptans are a more effective treatment for acute migraines than newer, more expensive drugs, finds an analysis of the latest evidence @And_Cipriani Includes a visual abstract #BMJInfographic bmj.com/content/386/bm…

@MelisaMimosa420 @elonmusk Prairie du Chien, Viroqua, small towns all along the way. You may be surprised, as I was.

@eloder @elonmusk Which cities if you don’t mind sharing I’d be happy drive through on my to Michigan next month 🤍

Trending well

@MelisaMimosa420 @elonmusk Nope. I drove through rural western WI just before the debate and there were a surprising number of Harris signs. And that was before she wiped the floor with him in the debate.

@elonmusk I live in Wisconsin and all I see are Trump signs

Different US states have evolved different approaches to gun control, setting up something akin to a natural experiment. @Klarevas looks at the evidence so far and says the emerging lesson is that gun control seems to save lives, says bmj.com/content/386/bm…

One dose of modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) smallpox vaccine is moderately effective in preventing mpox infection and should be made available to communities at risk, finds a study published by @bmj_latest today. Link: bit.ly/3XpuCxA

@doctor_paz @bmj_latest @KamranAbbasi We are lucky to have you!

I’m delighted to share that 20 years after being a Clegg Scholar, I’ll be returning to @bmj_latest as Freelance Research Editor. Super excited to work with an amazing team - Head of Research @eloder and EiC @KamranAbbasi, and champion the best, most clinically impactful science.

1/9 Rachel Amdur and I comment in @bmj_latest on a new trial of surgical face masks. bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Progress on the Chatbot Assessment Reporting Tool - #CHART! Panel Consensus 2/3 co-chaired with @GordonGuyatt Pictured: our global, multi-d expert panel - apologies to those missed #MedTwitter #AI @juliomayol @Tfeend @eloder @AFlanagin @riazagha @sa_antoniou @GSCollins @nliulab

Our new policy for research published by The BMJ requires authors to share analytic codes from all studies and data from all trials, @eloder, @drhelmac, @TheoBloom, @KamranAbbasi

Time to bring out last years @bmj_latest Xmas paper "On the 12th Day of Christmas, a Statistician Sent to Me..." --> tinyurl.com/mrxah6rr We want to help you "publish the gold not the mould, the frankincense not the makes-no-sense, and the myrrh not the urrgghh"

"Alarms were raised early on about the mix of sheer volume and unprecedented speed." @jocalynclark writes how the pandemic turbocharged scientific publishing and if the harms of pandemic publishing have been overlooked. bmj.com/content/380/bm…

@obegassededhaem Thanks for the kind words!

Congratulations to @eloder for a well deserved award! So many remarkable achievements, but also all that does not go into formal records: Dr. Loder’s constant thoughtful attention, kindness, and care for others. She is such an inspiring woman, physician, mentor, researcher.

@RichardLehman1 Richard, John and I send sincere condolences. Thinking of you and Sue, and remembering a lovely day together in Oxford with spring bulbs and fritillaries.

My adored wife has just died. She was everything to me. Full of love, honesty, humour, kindness and compassion. Neither religious nor atheist. Here is the Striggio’s great motet celebrating the spirit of good in the Universe: youtube.com/watch?v=Mb-xyh…

@AnupamBJena @oziadias @bmj_latest @MWFriedberg In fact I WAS completing such modules at the last minute.

@oziadias I think there is a @bmj_latest Xmas article waiting to be written on national estimates of the time cost to completing Health Stream modules! Maybe @eloder agrees, who may be completing some modules today as well. @MWFriedberg consider this pre-registration.

It’s that time of year to complete a series of very useful, evidence-based modules on Health Stream. Texting w/ a chief quality officer at a large AMC who in response to my question about why we need to do this, texted: “Talk about man made disasters.” That about sums it up.

@OdedRechavi Haha, yes.

An editor asking people to review papers during the holidays twitter.com/fariskelle/sta…

Do surgeons have worse outcomes when they operate on their birthday? Our @bmj_latest X-mas study, led by Hiro Kato & @ytsugawa1 We analyzed 1M surgeries, linked to surgeon & surgeon's birthday We found higher mortality for surgeries performed on a surgeons bday Thread

She is the face we kiss during practice for CPR, but do we ever stop and wonder about the story behind this face? This #ChristmasBMJ article looks at how this history takes us back to 19th century Paris when the body of a girl was pulled from the Seine ow.ly/QK3250CIcZ4

@medinmanhattan @WCMCNeurology @GrahamHeadache We can't wait to have you here!

#MedTwitter, help me settle a debate: is this is a clinical trial? 1) You invite all patients with episodic migraine who come to your clinic to participate. 2) They choose which of two experimental treatments to take, open label. 3) You assess headache frequency before and after.