Can anyone post a pic of the scan sheet for the arthritis foundation donations?
Hey everybody!
I'm not normally a Redditor, but I made an account to share some news with you.
I am a PT on the board of the Arthritis Foundation, and our hope is for you to recommend your patients with arthritis to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and in events in their communities. We are a non-profit, and we work for THEM. We only exist to help them. We share news about the research we're conducting, helpful information about diet/ stress/ sleep, and serve as a community to share their experiences with each other.
We're also starting to create sub-groups on Facebook for younger folks diagnosed with any form of arthritis. Today, we created a group for the DC/MD/VA region to serve as a landing spot for young folks who have recently faced a new diagnosis are folks who have been living with it for some time now. We're here to help them feel understood, heard, and just feel like they belong. It's called "Arthritis Foundation: Young Professionals of the DMV." More like this to come.
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DYK - you can get your name on the hood of Natalie Decker's truck for her Homestead paint scheme!
Hey, friends! Those who are in the Austin, Texas area or may know anyone that is interested - I just started a South Austin Group through the Arthritis Foundation. Feel free to message me with any questions :)
As the title says I work for the Arthritis Foundation and we truly do want to just help. We have an amazing amount of resources at our site arthritis.org everything from doctors in your area to events to get involved with and everything in between. Please feel free to private message me for more information. Arthritis can be a terrifying disease, we are here to be your allies.
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For anyone intersted, the Arthritis Foundation is hosting a webinar on 1/31/17 called Advancing Osteoarthritis Treatment
Here are the details to join:
If possible, please plan to join us 15 minutes prior to 1pm EST – we will start promptly at 1pm.
Click Here to Access the Webinar
Helpful Hints
- This event is being streamed. It is recommended that you listen via your computer speakers.
- Additional Options for Audio Listening, toll-free attendee dial-in: 844-595-9255, Conference ID: 49063536
- You are welcome to listen to the teleconference without logging into the webinar.
- Please note you will have to enter your email address to view the webinar. Please use the email address you provided us during registration.
- The most current version of the Adobe Flash Player Version is required to enter the webinar.
- Once you join the webinar, please use the Q&A feature to type in questions for the speakers and or to request technical support.
- In February, the webinar recording will be available on the Arthritis Foundation website.
I'm on the Tacoma Arthritis Walk organizing committee this year and we need teams, and even more, we need SPONSORS! So if you want to get involved, check out the website. If you have a company that you think might be interested in sponsoring let me know and I have a packet filled with info about sponsor booths, t-shirts, brochures, mile markers, etc. This year the walk will be on Ruston way on May 14th so there will be LOTS of great exposure.
I'm walking in the annual Jingle Ball Run this week for the Arthritis foundation. I figured I'd plug my page, though you can donate directly to the arthritis foundation as well.
The Arthritis foundation is a great charity to donate to. Arthritis touches people of all ages, not just old people. Each summer they hold a camp for children with Junior Rheumatoid arthritis and donations from the Jingle Ball Run support that great cause.
http://www.jbrphilly.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=477152&supid=347825690
Most of you would remember that last year, early in the pandemic India was using Hydroxychloroquine(HCQ) for COVID and a few doctors in other countries were also using it. Then all of a sudden, it was stopped. Articles appeared all of the world that HCQ is ineffective and also that it was toxic & dangerous. As a matter of fact, looking at some of the articles by Indian med beat journalists, it felt like more people were going to die because of swallowing HCQ than they were going to die because of COVID. I imagined there would be bodies lying all over the place with HCQ mentioned as cause of Death.
Now how did this happen?
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The Surgisphere "meta-study"
On May 22, a paper was published in The Lancet Journal (and also in the New England Journal of Medicine), a study of 96,000 patient files with the conclusion that HCQ is ineffective but in addition it is dangerous. The paper was published by an American Cardiologist Mandeep Mehra, American Cardiac surgeon Amit Patel with help from an American Healthcare analytics startup Surgisphere run by Sapan Desai -
The HCQ arm of the RECOVERY Trial
The HCQ arm of the RECOVERY Trial also showed that HCQ in addition to being ineffective was also dangerous.
The problem with the above two
- Surgisphere was started by Sapan Desai. He claimed that he could combine Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in ways that can replace randomized controlled clinical trials. So the paper published in the Lancet "claimed" to be using 96,000 patient files from 700 hospitals in 6 continents & the analysis done on it by Surgisphere. Sounds great, doesn't it?
Right after the Lancet and NEJM studies appeared, critics identified anomalies in the data. And they doubted that a tiny firm - with a scant public track record in AI, few employees, and no publicly named scientific board, could convince hundreds of unidentified hospitals in dozens of nations to share complex, protected, and legally fraught patient data. Ultimately, despite Desai promising repeatedly to allow an independent audit of Surgisphere, the firm refused to release the raw patient data and agreements with hospitals for an audit, so no one could validate the authenticity of its database.
No hospitals have come forward to acknowledge working with Surgisphere. NHS Scotland, which is mentioned as a case study on the company’s website, says none of its hospitals worked with Surgisphere and that it made the firm remove
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I'm not normally a Redditor, but I made an account to share some news with you.
I am a PT on the board of the Arthritis Foundation, and our hope is for you to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and in events in their communities. We are a non-profit, and we work for YOU. We only exist to help you. We share news about the research we're conducting, helpful information about diet/ stress/ sleep, and serve as a community to share your experiences with each other. We also host community events, like festivals, fun-runs, and happy hours.
We're starting to create sub-groups on Facebook for younger folks diagnosed with any form of arthritis. Today, we created a group for the DC/MD/VA region for young folks who have recently faced a new diagnosis are folks who have been living with it for some time now. We're here to help you feel understood, heard, and just live better. It's called "Arthritis Foundation: Young Professionals of the DMV." More like this to come.
Message me personally or comment here with questions, comments. Thanks!
Hey everybody!
I'm not normally a Redditor, but I made an account to share some news with you.
I am a PT on the board of the Arthritis Foundation, and our hope is for you to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and in events in their communities if you share any type of this diagnosis. We are a non-profit, and we work for YOU. We only exist to help you. We share news about the research we're conducting, helpful information about diet/ stress/ sleep, and serve as a community to share your experiences with each other. We also host community events, like festivals, fun-runs, and happy hours. Search Arthritis Foundation on social media, or check out www.arthritis.org for a better idea of who we are and how we try to help.
We're also starting to create sub-groups on Facebook for younger folks diagnosed with any form of arthritis. Today, we created a group for the DC/MD/VA region for young folks who have recently faced a new diagnosis are folks who have been living with it for some time now. We're here to help you feel understood, heard, and just live better. It's called "Arthritis Foundation: Young Professionals of the DMV." More like this to come.
Message me personally or comment here with questions, comments. Thanks!
Hey everybody!
I'm not normally a Redditor, but I made an account to share some news with you.
I am a PT on the board of the Arthritis Foundation, and our hope is for you to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and in events in their communities. We are a non-profit, and we work for YOU. We only exist to help you. We share news about the research we're conducting, helpful information about diet/ stress/ sleep, and serve as a community to share your experiences with each other. We also host community events, like festivals, fun-runs, and happy hours. Search Arthritis Foundation on social media, or check out www.arthritis.org for a better idea of who we are and how we try to help.
We're also starting to create sub-groups on Facebook for younger folks diagnosed with any form of arthritis. Today, we created a group for the DC/MD/VA region for young folks who have recently faced a new diagnosis are folks who have been living with it for some time now. We're here to help you feel understood, heard, and just live better. It's called "Arthritis Foundation: Young Professionals of the DMV." More like this to come.
Message me personally or comment here with questions, comments. Thanks!
Hey everybody!
I'm not normally a Redditor, but I made an account to share some news with you.
I am a PT on the board of the Arthritis Foundation, and our hope is for you to recommend your patients with arthritis to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and in events in their communities. We are a non-profit, and we work for THEM. We only exist to help them. We share news about the research we're conducting, helpful information about diet/ stress/ sleep, and serve as a community to share their experiences with each other. Search Arthritis Foundation on social media, or check out www.arthritis.org for a better idea of who we are and how we try to help.
We're also starting to create sub-groups on Facebook for younger folks diagnosed with any form of arthritis. Today, we created a group for the DC/MD/VA region to serve as a landing spot for young folks who have recently faced a new diagnosis are folks who have been living with it for some time now. We're here to help them feel understood, heard, and just feel like they belong. It's called "Arthritis Foundation: Young Professionals of the DMV." More like this to come.
Message me personally or comment here with questions, comments. Thanks!
