Madhu Pai
Director of . Canada Research Chair . Passionate about tuberculosis control & global health. Tweets are my own views.
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Treatment of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. An Official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Atsjournals.org 10h 1 tweets
Madhu Pai New! Treatment of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. An Official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline 10h
Publicly funded medicines belong to the world | The Star
thestar.com 5d 4 tweets
Publicly funded institutions must do more to ensure all citizens can afford the results of their scientific discoveries. On World Diabetes Day, let’s honour Sir Frederick Banting by leaving an insulin legacy.
Madhu Pai "This World Diabetes Day, Canada should honour Banting’s legacy and ensure that publicly funded medicines truly belong to the world." writes cc 11h
British universities are a 'product of colonialism', National Union of Students says
The Telegraph 32h 1 tweets
British universities are a “product of colonialism” and more needs to be done to challenge their “racist structures”, the National Union of Students has said.
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Madhu Pai British universities are a 'product of colonialism', National Union of Students says via 32h
Thread by @paimadhu: "I am increasingly frustrated by the short time frames imposed on global health projects by funders. Donors & agencies want to see "impac […]"
Madhu Pai - Threadreaderapp.com 3d 1 tweets
Thread by @paimadhu: "I am increasingly frustrated by the short time frames imposed on global health projects by funders. Donors & agenciee "impact" in 2-3 years, while everyone knows that ground realities might not even allow implementers to rea...
Yes, it’s important you talk to the media
University Affairs - University Affairs 3d 2 tweets
As long as you comment on areas that lie within your area of expertise, you provide a needed antidote to some of the foolishness out there.
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Madhu Pai Agree 💯with ! If credible academics don't talk to the media, quacks and science-deniers will dominate the airwaves. via 3d
Beyond the Nobel Prize in medicine – the Canada conundrum
University Affairs - University Affairs 5d 3 tweets
Our emphasis on boutique funding programs, rather than open discovery science, hampers our prospects.
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Event.voiceboxer.com 4d 1 tweets
Tackling the dual burden of TB and diabetes for patients and their families
Mailchi.mp 5d 1 tweets
Hairy heroes: Why you'll never hate rats again
The Telegraph 4d 1 tweets
Harnessing their superlative sense of smell, a Tanzania-based organisation has trained the much-maligned rodents to detect landmines and diagnose TB – saving lives by a whisker.
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Madhu Pai My elderly neighbor was excited to bring me a clipping of this story about rats detecting TB in Africa. I did not have the heart to tell her that, in 2019, African patients deserve better than rats for TB diagnosis! via 4d
UnMasked: We All Breathe - A film Exploring the Dark Truth Behind MDR TB
Weallbreathefilmviewing.splashthat.com 6d 1 tweets
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is in the news lately and for good reason. Diseases that were once easy to treat are becoming increasingly difficult to cure. But the largest contributor to AMR is a disease that rarely makes headlines – drug-resistant...
Why is the world losing the fight against history's most lethal disease?
the Guardian 5d 12 tweets
Easy to catch but hard to diagnose, TB is almost as deadly today as it was 150 years ago. Better, cheaper drugs are a priority
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Madhu Pai Sober assessment of the fight against TB by : “Easy to catch but hard to diagnose, TB is almost as deadly today as it was 150 years ago. ” 5d
PhDs: the tortuous truth
Nature.com 6d 30 tweets
Nature’s survey of more than 6,000 graduate students reveals the turbulent nature of doctoral research.
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Madhu Pai Wow! Important survey of 6000+ grad students: A third of the students had sought help for mental health issues, but reported not getting enough help from their supervisors or their schools. We can and must do better in academia! 5d
Don Cherry debacle highlights the whiteness of hockey
The Conversation 5d 1 tweets
Don Cherry's recent divisive and discriminatory comments remind us of how white hockey remains. It's time to transform the sport into a more inclusive pastime.
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Madhu Pai This is the best take I have read on the Don Cherry racism story! "Despite Canada’s claim that it’s a multicultural country, that’s not the reality of one of the country’s national sports, ice hockey." via 5d
Yara Changyit-Levin: Grassroots advocates fuel global funding
stltoday.com 6d 1 tweets
How often do you see world leaders and governments give more than was asked of them for the sake of helping people in deepest poverty?
Madhu Pai Check out this op-ed by one of the youngest global health advocates I know - the amazing Yara Changyit-Levin! PS: Her mom, is a great advocate too; the apple does not fall far from the tree! :) via 6d
WHO launches first-ever insulin prequalification programme to expand access to life-saving treatment for diabetes
Who.int 6d 18 tweets
The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the start of a pilot programme to prequalify human insulin to increase treatment for diabetes in low- and middle-income countries. This decision is part of a series of steps WHO will take to...
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Madhu Pai This is great! But what about sky-rocketing insulin prices in HICs? WHO launches first-ever insulin prequalification programme to expand access to life-saving treatment for diabetes 6d
Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time
Damian Carrington - the Guardian 6d 19 tweets
Exclusive: Produced by traffic, nanoparticles are already known to invade the brain and can carry carcinogens
Bedaquiline, moxifloxacin, pretomanid, and pyrazinamide during the first 8 weeks of treatment of patients with drug-susceptible or drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis: a multicentre, open-label, partially randomised, phase 2b trial
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 6d 2 tweets
B200PaZ is a promising regimen to treat patients with drug-susceptible tuberculosis. The bactericidal activity of both these regimens suggests that they have the potential to shorten treatment, and the simplified dosing schedule of B200PaZ could...
Are pretomanid-containing regimens for tuberculosis a victory or a victory narrative?
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 6d 1 tweets
Around 10 million people become sick with tuberculosis, and more than 1·2 million people die from the disease each year.1 WHO has proposed some ambitious targets in their End TB Strategy,2 and global leaders committed to reaching these targets...
Opening Round: Vote for the Best Science & Technology of 2019!
Goodreads 14d 9 tweets
Discover the Best Science & Technology in the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers.
Madhu Pai Voted for "The Perfect Predator" in the Semifinal Round of the 2019 #GoodreadsChoice Awards 6d
Tuberculosis: No Man’s Land?
Nature Research Microbiology Community 7d 3 tweets
Women are disadvantaged in most areas of healthcare, and stigma is major concern for women. TB, however, is one condition, where all evidence points to a higher burden of disease in men, a consistent pattern of underutilization of health services,...
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Madhu Pai Tuberculosis: No Man’s Land? My latest post is on the new book "Men and Stigma" by 7d
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Madhu Pai To tackle the problem of missing men in TB, we need to understand men’s needs in specific contexts, listen to what men are saying and not saying, and design multifaceted and synergistic interventions that are grounded in realities. My post: 4d