Fartoon Siad
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Digital Storyteller. Health Services Researcher. Global Citizen. General Internal and Obstetrical Medicine. #staywoke
Canada
Joined December 2012
Listening to interviews from my time in Gondar, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (left) and Mwanza, Tanzania 🇹🇿 (right) on antenatal care and women’s health in rural communities. Reminded of incredible work of community advocates, care providers, researchers, and patient stories
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Sudan is facing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and a genocide. Tens of thousands dead. 12 million displaced. The images of the RSF seizing El Fasher are horrific. The UAE and other arms dealers to the RSF and RSF-aligned militias must be held accountable.
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Postpartum hemorrhage is an obstetric emergency that has an incidence of 3% to 6% of births and accounts for approximately 27% of maternal deaths worldwide. Learn more about the risk factors, assessment, and management of PPH: https://t.co/6AMqADKu0R
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, causing approximately 1.8 million deaths in 2022. 📝 This Review discusses the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of lung cancer in nonsmoking individuals. https://t.co/cwW3s8eTFr
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Small cell lung cancer represents 10% to 15% of all lung cancers, and approximately 16 000 cases were diagnosed in the US in 2024. This JAMA Patient Page describes small cell lung cancer and its symptoms, diagnosis and staging, treatment, and prognosis. https://t.co/Xtee51TCDW
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This just happened in the West Bank. The West is still backing this horror.
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Make it THREE🥇 Josh Liendo keeps the streak alive in Toronto as he claims gold in the men’s 100m freestyle on day two of the Swimming World Cup🔥🇨🇦
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WORLD RECORD 🇨🇦 JOSH LIENDO LIENDO FLYS TO A 100M WORLD RECORD He posts a time of 47.68 to break the 100m butterfly short course world record and this place is going crazy. Ilya Kharun wins silver. These Canadian men continue to impress.
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Polio is 99% eradicated — a remarkable global achievement. But the only way we can full get rid of it is by funding the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. On World Polio Day, I’m joining those calling to close the gap and finish the job. Together, we can end polio for good
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WORLD RECORD! 🥇 Canadian swimmer Josh Liendo breaks the short-course world record in the men’s 100m butterfly, clocking 47.68 seconds at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre! 🇨🇦🏊
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Leaving The Hague satisfied but heavy hearted. Proud of our victory, especially regarding UNRWA which I had the honour to plead on. But the horrific situation will not end without 3rd State action based on international law. Israel must be stopped. Now. https://t.co/p86AeiAxQA
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READ HERE: The full text of the #ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory https://t.co/T5Ml4vSsuM
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Vladdy Jr. making his Pops proud ever since he was little 🥺
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Israel returned 195 mutilated Palestinian bodies showing strangulation marks, torture, gunshot wounds to the head, and missing limbs and organs. Israel has been doing this for 30+ years. Read their history of organ theft and trafficking. https://t.co/a4sCynhbDY
mondoweiss.net
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and...
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Mass administration of azithromycin to children younger than 5 years has been reported to decrease child mortality. In the LAKANA trial, limited to infants 1 to 11 months of age in Mali, azithromycin did not reduce infant or child mortality. Full trial results and Research
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Postpartum hemorrhage is an obstetric emergency that has an incidence of 3% to 6% of births and accounts for approximately 27% of maternal deaths worldwide. Learn more about the risk factors, assessment, and management of PPH: https://t.co/TRclXTGMEV
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Black staff at Global Affairs Canada allege systemic racism
ctvnews.ca
A group representing current and former Global Affairs Canada employees who are Black say the department doesn’t take their complaints about racism seriously.
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Approximately 14.8 million individuals globally inject drugs and are at increased risk for viral infections. 💡 This JAMA Insights discusses common viral infections associated with injection drug use, as well as strategies for prevention. https://t.co/wHekk6kzZl
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The differential diagnosis of female-pattern hair loss includes types of reversible as well as cicatricial (scarring) hair loss (seen in figure). Learn more about female-pattern hair loss in a new Clinical Practice article: https://t.co/cmdVVIfHJO
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