Dr. Alison Fox-Robichaud
@drfoxrob.bsky.social
Prof Medicine McMaster. Scientific Dir Sepsis Canada, Dir Med Ed Hamilton Health Sciences.
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Hello #HamOnt! On Oct 16th I'll be at the @hamiltonlibrary.bsky.social talking about fascinating research on how vaccinations protect the aging brain. It's free, it's fun, and I would love to see you all there. Register below. @miramcmaster.bsky.social
Bites & Insights: Is dementia a vaccine-preventable condition? - MIRA
Register here
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September 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hello #HamOnt! On Oct 16th I'll be at the @hamiltonlibrary.bsky.social talking about fascinating research on how vaccinations protect the aging brain. It's free, it's fun, and I would love to see you all there. Register below. @miramcmaster.bsky.social
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This World Sepsis Day, 98 structures will illuminate pink across Canada to raise awareness of sepsis!
Not only does this break 2024’s record, but this year will also see the first illumination in one of Canada’s 3 territories. A key moment in raising awareness in the North.
Not only does this break 2024’s record, but this year will also see the first illumination in one of Canada’s 3 territories. A key moment in raising awareness in the North.
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This World Sepsis Day, 98 structures will illuminate pink across Canada to raise awareness of sepsis!
Not only does this break 2024’s record, but this year will also see the first illumination in one of Canada’s 3 territories. A key moment in raising awareness in the North.
Not only does this break 2024’s record, but this year will also see the first illumination in one of Canada’s 3 territories. A key moment in raising awareness in the North.
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Thank you to the governments of Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon for officially proclaiming World Sepsis Day 2025.
This stands as a critical contribution to raising awareness of sepsis throughout Canada!
This stands as a critical contribution to raising awareness of sepsis throughout Canada!
September 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thank you to the governments of Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon for officially proclaiming World Sepsis Day 2025.
This stands as a critical contribution to raising awareness of sepsis throughout Canada!
This stands as a critical contribution to raising awareness of sepsis throughout Canada!
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It is important to recognize both physical and mental health impacts when helping survivors recover from sepsis.
Here is Amalie sharing her mental health experiences both before and after sepsis.
#SepsisAwarenessMonth #WorldSepsisDay #SepsisAwareness #Sepsis #SepsisSurvivor
Here is Amalie sharing her mental health experiences both before and after sepsis.
#SepsisAwarenessMonth #WorldSepsisDay #SepsisAwareness #Sepsis #SepsisSurvivor
September 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It is important to recognize both physical and mental health impacts when helping survivors recover from sepsis.
Here is Amalie sharing her mental health experiences both before and after sepsis.
#SepsisAwarenessMonth #WorldSepsisDay #SepsisAwareness #Sepsis #SepsisSurvivor
Here is Amalie sharing her mental health experiences both before and after sepsis.
#SepsisAwarenessMonth #WorldSepsisDay #SepsisAwareness #Sepsis #SepsisSurvivor
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Video in Clinical Medicine: Abdominal paracentesis can be performed as either a diagnostic or a therapeutic procedure. The use of ultrasound for guiding paracentesis generally results in fewer complications and increased operator comfort and procedure success rates. nej.md/3I1o5FN
September 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Video in Clinical Medicine: Abdominal paracentesis can be performed as either a diagnostic or a therapeutic procedure. The use of ultrasound for guiding paracentesis generally results in fewer complications and increased operator comfort and procedure success rates. nej.md/3I1o5FN
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In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators.
Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y
Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y
September 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators.
Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y
Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y
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Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia has a case fatality rate of 15% to 30% and causes 300 000 deaths per year worldwide.
This Review discusses management of S aureus bacteremia.
ja.ma/47lAvCO #MedSky
This Review discusses management of S aureus bacteremia.
ja.ma/47lAvCO #MedSky
September 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia has a case fatality rate of 15% to 30% and causes 300 000 deaths per year worldwide.
This Review discusses management of S aureus bacteremia.
ja.ma/47lAvCO #MedSky
This Review discusses management of S aureus bacteremia.
ja.ma/47lAvCO #MedSky
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Whether lactated Ringer’s solution is clinically superior to normal saline for routine intravenous administration of fluids to hospitalized patients is unclear. Research findings from the FLUID trial are summarized in a new Quick Take video. nej.md/4oCRgQ4
#MedSky #CriticalCare
#MedSky #CriticalCare
August 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Whether lactated Ringer’s solution is clinically superior to normal saline for routine intravenous administration of fluids to hospitalized patients is unclear. Research findings from the FLUID trial are summarized in a new Quick Take video. nej.md/4oCRgQ4
#MedSky #CriticalCare
#MedSky #CriticalCare
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oh, not nearly as good as one might hope
Accuracy of Intensivist Prognostications of Deterioration within the Intensive Care Unit and Development of Persistent Critical Illness: A Prospective Cohort Study
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@atscommunity.bsky.social
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@atscommunity.bsky.social
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August 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
oh, not nearly as good as one might hope
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Organizations disinvited from CDC vaccine workgroups medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08...
- American Medical Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, et al
Removal "irresponsible, dangerous to our nation's health, & will further undermine public trust..."
- American Medical Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, et al
Removal "irresponsible, dangerous to our nation's health, & will further undermine public trust..."
Organizations disinvited from CDC vaccine workgroups
U.S. health officials have informed more than half a dozen leading medical organizations that they will no longer be invited to participate in developing vaccination recommendations.
medicalxpress.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Organizations disinvited from CDC vaccine workgroups medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08...
- American Medical Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, et al
Removal "irresponsible, dangerous to our nation's health, & will further undermine public trust..."
- American Medical Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, et al
Removal "irresponsible, dangerous to our nation's health, & will further undermine public trust..."
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Jackie Duda is a BEAST!!! This woman does so much advocating for sepsis awareness & changing lives for the better for all sepsis survivors.
This is her latest article in @thelancet.com.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is her latest article in @thelancet.com.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The walking wounded: sepsis survivors grapple with post-sepsis syndrome
There were times I didn’t know why I survived sepsis, and even darker times when I
wished I hadn’t. After surviving septic shock in May, 2021, after a colon perforation
erupted from undiagnosed divert...
www.thelancet.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Jackie Duda is a BEAST!!! This woman does so much advocating for sepsis awareness & changing lives for the better for all sepsis survivors.
This is her latest article in @thelancet.com.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is her latest article in @thelancet.com.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia: mechanisms, an appraisal of current therapies and the role for inhaled antibiotics in prevention and treatment
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
July 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ventilator-associated pneumonia: mechanisms, an appraisal of current therapies and the role for inhaled antibiotics in prevention and treatment
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
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🚩The 3rd trial result for CCR Down Under 2025 is ARISE-AFRICA🚩
➡️Standard low flow oxygen vs nasal high flow oxygen vs CPAP in hypoxaemic respiratory failure
➡️Presenter Arthur Kwizera
➡️Join us in Melbourne
criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr...
@precordialthump.bsky.social
➡️Standard low flow oxygen vs nasal high flow oxygen vs CPAP in hypoxaemic respiratory failure
➡️Presenter Arthur Kwizera
➡️Join us in Melbourne
criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr...
@precordialthump.bsky.social
CCR Down Under 2025
Critical Care Reviews Meeting Down Under - The Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, December 9th - 10th, 2025
criticalcarereviews.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🚩The 3rd trial result for CCR Down Under 2025 is ARISE-AFRICA🚩
➡️Standard low flow oxygen vs nasal high flow oxygen vs CPAP in hypoxaemic respiratory failure
➡️Presenter Arthur Kwizera
➡️Join us in Melbourne
criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr...
@precordialthump.bsky.social
➡️Standard low flow oxygen vs nasal high flow oxygen vs CPAP in hypoxaemic respiratory failure
➡️Presenter Arthur Kwizera
➡️Join us in Melbourne
criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr...
@precordialthump.bsky.social
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Nature research paper: Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis
go.nature.com/4lzilSb
go.nature.com/4lzilSb
Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis - Nature
Neutrophils actively induce tumour necrosis, driving vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis and metastasis.
go.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Nature research paper: Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis
go.nature.com/4lzilSb
go.nature.com/4lzilSb
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Maria Montessori and her many disciples believed that children are, in their essence, methodical, self-directed beings with a strong work ethic.
The Miseducation of Maria Montessori
Her method was meant for the public. Then it became a privilege.
www.newyorker.com
July 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Maria Montessori and her many disciples believed that children are, in their essence, methodical, self-directed beings with a strong work ethic.
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Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at my university @mcgill.ca
Fully-funded scholarship to Canada!!
opportunitiesforyouth.org/2025/07/14/m...
Fully-funded scholarship to Canada!!
opportunitiesforyouth.org/2025/07/14/m...
Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at McGill University(Fully-funded scholarship to Canada) - Opportunities for Youth
The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program is the largest scholarship and leadership initiative of its kind in Africa. Through a broad network of Pan-African
opportunitiesforyouth.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at my university @mcgill.ca
Fully-funded scholarship to Canada!!
opportunitiesforyouth.org/2025/07/14/m...
Fully-funded scholarship to Canada!!
opportunitiesforyouth.org/2025/07/14/m...
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Tackling misinformation is a long game: journalists can help www.absw.org.uk/resources/ta... v @absw.bsky.social
1) Publish on a topic widely & repeatedly
2) Prebunk—inoculate your audience against common misinformation tactics
3) Report on science with extreme care
4) Choose your experts carefully
1) Publish on a topic widely & repeatedly
2) Prebunk—inoculate your audience against common misinformation tactics
3) Report on science with extreme care
4) Choose your experts carefully
Tackling misinformation is a long game: here’s how science journalists can help
A panel of writers, researchers, and industry experts shared their insights on how to spot and counter misinformation at #abswss25. By Jasmeen Kanwal.
www.absw.org.uk
July 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Tackling misinformation is a long game: journalists can help www.absw.org.uk/resources/ta... v @absw.bsky.social
1) Publish on a topic widely & repeatedly
2) Prebunk—inoculate your audience against common misinformation tactics
3) Report on science with extreme care
4) Choose your experts carefully
1) Publish on a topic widely & repeatedly
2) Prebunk—inoculate your audience against common misinformation tactics
3) Report on science with extreme care
4) Choose your experts carefully
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Harnessing adiponectin for sepsis: current knowledge, clinical insights and future therapies
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
July 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Harnessing adiponectin for sepsis: current knowledge, clinical insights and future therapies
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily
https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/journal-watch
Happy to share this collaboration between my undergraduate student, a post doctoral fellow and patient partners healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topi...
Beyond the signature: Is consent truly informed? - Healthy Debate
Moving forward, making informed consent truly informed – rooted in both equity and accessibility – needs to be a priority, not just an ideal.
healthydebate.ca
July 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Happy to share this collaboration between my undergraduate student, a post doctoral fellow and patient partners healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topi...
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#ICUreadings
One of my favorite recent meditations on the language we use, by the brilliant @jackykruser.bsky.social: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37486663/
And the classic DAHLIA trial that is part of why I am so liberal with precedex:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26975647/
One of my favorite recent meditations on the language we use, by the brilliant @jackykruser.bsky.social: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37486663/
And the classic DAHLIA trial that is part of why I am so liberal with precedex:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26975647/
Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness - PubMed
Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#ICUreadings
One of my favorite recent meditations on the language we use, by the brilliant @jackykruser.bsky.social: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37486663/
And the classic DAHLIA trial that is part of why I am so liberal with precedex:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26975647/
One of my favorite recent meditations on the language we use, by the brilliant @jackykruser.bsky.social: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37486663/
And the classic DAHLIA trial that is part of why I am so liberal with precedex:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26975647/
Reposted by Dr. Alison Fox-Robichaud
In effort to protect children, France bans smoking at parks, pools, beaches, and or "anywhere children may be present," by @ebeardsley.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n... via @npr.org
In effort to protect children, France bans smoking at parks and beaches
Smokers are no longer allowed to light up in public parks, at swimming pools, or at beaches, or "anywhere children may be present," said French health and family minister Catherine Vautrin.
www.npr.org
June 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In effort to protect children, France bans smoking at parks, pools, beaches, and or "anywhere children may be present," by @ebeardsley.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n... via @npr.org
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I’m grateful that these people are willing to share their stories, hopefully so that others can avoid their fate. There is a reason that specific infections have been targeted by vaccines. Vaccine-preventable diseases are terrible.
"These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday." 1/
Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families
apnews.com/article/vacc...
Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families
apnews.com/article/vacc...
Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families
In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.
apnews.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’m grateful that these people are willing to share their stories, hopefully so that others can avoid their fate. There is a reason that specific infections have been targeted by vaccines. Vaccine-preventable diseases are terrible.
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An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. Where should you hold your next conference?
https://go.nature.com/407qJ2w
https://go.nature.com/407qJ2w
Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?
An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. These locations could steal its crown and make conferences more globally inclusive.
go.nature.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. Where should you hold your next conference?
https://go.nature.com/407qJ2w
https://go.nature.com/407qJ2w
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#Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? Measles 'canary in the coalmine,' as experts watch for resurgence of illnesses like polio, by @jenleecbc.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #pediatrics
Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? | CBC News
Doctors and scientists worry Alberta's measles outbreaks could signal the start of a new era when other dangerous infectious diseases of the past could re-emerge and pose new health threats.
www.cbc.ca
June 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#Measles is surging in Alberta. Which vaccine-preventable disease could be next? Measles 'canary in the coalmine,' as experts watch for resurgence of illnesses like polio, by @jenleecbc.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #pediatrics
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#Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years. Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years, by @scientificdiscovery.dev ourworldindata.org/measles-incr... via @ourworldindata.org
Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years
Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years.
ourworldindata.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#Measles leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years. Measles causes more than an acute illness: it suppresses immune memory and increases the risk of complications for years, by @scientificdiscovery.dev ourworldindata.org/measles-incr... via @ourworldindata.org