Hamish Houston
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Hamish Houston
@hamishhouston.bsky.social
Infectious diseases & Internal medicine doctor @ UCLH 🇬🇧
We wrote a description of the first 3 cases of oropouche virus in the UK. doi.org/10.1016/j.ji... #IDSky
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October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Congrats to Chris van Tullekan and team @futurehealthj.bsky.social for superb special issue on #commercialdeterminants and #conflictsofinterest in public health and policy:
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/futu...
July 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Great to present feasibility study on AI to detect invasive pulmonary mould infections from CT scans at #BIASpring2025.

Proof-of-concept but need to develop surrounding infrastructure to develop this and other AI projects within NHS.

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May 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Hamish Houston
New: Our analysis indicates that the Trump administration's proposed 90-day policy review would result in at least 100,000 lives lost over the next year. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
February 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
An paper by colleagues at UCLH about how badly we record AMR as cause of death on death certificates and a new definition for “AMR-attributable mortality”. academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic... @gpollara.bsky.social
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January 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Interesting article as I’ve a coughing son at home. As an adult doc I hadn’t heard of “protracted bacterial bronchitis” before. Recommendation for 2weeks co-amoxiclav makes me nervous from AMS perspective but NNT of 3 is impressive. What do you think #IDSky ?
www.bmj.com/content/386/...
Chronic cough in preschool aged children
### What you need to know A 20 month old boy is brought for review in general practice because his parents are concerned that he has had a persistent cough for nearly six months. Six weeks ago, he wa...
www.bmj.com
December 9, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Reposted by Hamish Houston
Good day to remind everyone

Around the globe the measles vaccine has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
November 14, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Very pleased to have joined the #IDSky community on here and to make my first bloop!
If on twitter it was called a tweet, on BlueSky is it called a bloop?
November 14, 2024 at 1:04 PM