Dr.Mathan K 🇮🇳
@kmathan
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Epidemiologist
Tamil Nadu, India
Joined January 2008
🚀 GoData v50.3 is live! This release strengthens outbreak readiness and security across all supported platforms. 🦠 New WHO influenza template 🧬 Updated mpox template 🔐 Major security upgrades ⬇️ Download: https://t.co/WhaUr9kMsH 📄 Release notes: https://t.co/6WIQ6WpF0o
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"We propose that the p-value be demoted from its threshold screening role and instead, treated continuously."
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The ebook version of Gandhi: A Young Reader's Guide is available for preorder at introductory prices. The book will be released on Jan 26th. @nchokkan Link to US Kindle Store - https://t.co/mRD6YKAHwI Link to IN Kindle Store - https://t.co/S7NvXZRv3H
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Sibling-analysis designs - a classic epidemiologic approach ⚠️ with increasing global availability of large-scale electronic health records and total-population registries. In this JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods, the authors cover some core principles of sibling
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@soniyalotlikar As per NMC rules, we r not supposed to promote brands at all @NMC_IND
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I don’t think I’ve watched a better interview since 2026 began. This part: Pep speaking on Khaldoon Al Mubarak’s role, how we conduct ourselves/behave in good and bad moments, and how focusing on ourselves has always been the foundation of our success. https://t.co/5N6PrPtBim
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STAY WITH ME. A few years ago, a patient was referred to me because he was diagnosed with complicated cirrhosis. He had an infection which led to a condition called hepatic encephalopathy (brain failure due to high ammonia levels). The treatment largely involved ammonia reducing
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Free to read @NatureMedicine Where will GLP-1 medicines make their next impact to improve human health? https://t.co/JkCF4vJwfW
2026 will bring waves of innovation to GLP-1 medicines from mechanisms to modalities to molecules delivery systems and new indications. #weightloss #obesity A glimpse of the.future here
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Autoregressive models are for the compute-constrained; if you are data-constrained, use diffusion models. Hybrid models - that's another thing.
Google isn’t betting on a single AI architecture. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google: “We’re going to push the diffusion paradigm as hard as possible.” “All of today’s mainline Gemini models are autoregressive. Diffusion is a different paradigm.” “For the same capability, diffusion
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Today @Gut_BMJ publishes my review titled ➡️My first 1000 manuscript rejections. I often meet young researchers who are devastated by a manuscript rejection, but rejections are part of life. Here are some of my most memorable ones 😃: https://t.co/asXsKX3CT6
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Every app out there is a “AI wrapper”
Meta reportedly acquired Manus for $4–5B. Not sure what Meta is buying it for, but one thought: Manus hit $100M ARR just 8 months after launch. Fastest startup did this ever. It has no proprietary model. People call it an “AI wrapper.” Same critique was used on Cursor. People
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“…The study exposes how international task forces have perpetuated a "pathological consensus" by recycling arbitrary surrogates rather than addressing the fundamental lack of causal validity in their designs. The author argues we must abandon the Petty-Bone RCT framework
A seminal paper dismantling 50 years of critical care dogma and RCTs failing patients @PatientStormDoc publishes a historical review revealing that decades of critical care trials for sepsis and ARDS rely on the flawed "Petty-Bone" design, which substitutes synthetic,
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Apparently some researchers thought it was significant that early high performance and later high performance were negatively correlated They didn't realize they were conditioning on a collider Nor did the editors at Science, who published their claims anyway Just incredible
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For performance, the tortoise really does beat the hare. A big new study looked at 34,000 elite performers found that: Early success rarely predicts adult achievement. Exceptional young performers peaked quickly but narrowly mastered one thing. Exceptional adults reached
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“Detection of undiagnosed liver cirrhosis via AI-enabled electrocardiogram: a pragmatic, cluster-randomized clinical trial” https://t.co/LaKJb4a1Jl 🙇15,596 patients with ECG 🧪 Pragmatic randomized trial 🎯 Increased detection of liver disease ✳️ Scalable, low-cost screening
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Nature Medicine - In a trial involving 45 clinics and 15,596 visits, the use of an AI-based screening tool applied to ECG for opportunistic detection of advanced chronic liver disease led to a...
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"Why India Fell Off the Global Middle-Class Map" - A brilliant diagnosis of the pathologies stymying the emergence of India on global stage by @andymukherjee70 for @opinion @business Unless India, especially its 'Octopus Class' and those with aspirations/illusions of being part
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In 1980, neither China nor India had much representation in the “global middle class” — people who neither belong to the bottom half of the income distribution nor rank among the top 10% worldwide....
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“Causal inference is hard, and advanced statistical analysis is not enough” By Timothy Feeney and Paul Zivich BMJ 2025; 391 doi:
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EPL Stories with Tamil meme content are vera level only…. https://t.co/Ck113bbLi9
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