Associate Prof /ICU Dr @Cambridge, UK
nosocomial infections, pneumonia, neutrophil biology & sepsis immune dysfunction
Medical director for Sepsis Research FEAT.
orcid.org/0000-0002-3211-3216
https://www.path.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-andrew-conway-morris
Andy Conway Morris
Remember this next time some bar-room bore or right wing politician rails against reducing air pollution
🪥🦠 Improving #oral hygiene in #hospitals may help reduce the risk of #Pneumonia by lowering the number of #disease-causing #microbes in the #mouth.
#Health #Infections #Bacteria #Healthcare #Microsky via @theconversation.com
“A driver overtook us with a really close pass. His passenger threw a cup of McDonald’s Coke out the window, totally unprovoked. How dare we be on his road and hold him up for two seconds. People just seem to be so angry with cyclists all the time, any excuse to cut them up and they’ll take it”
Important study of real-world use of rapid respiratory diagnostics. Encouragingly, pace INHALE, no signal to harm in the intervention group (indeed signal to benefit in those with panel-detectable organisms on culture).
Once again, for those at the back, the effort to refute bulls*t is 10x that required to produce it. Can we please stop doing high dose Vit C trials in critical care now?
How many extra hospital admissions in Greater Manchester thanks to Andy Burnham blocking the Clean Air Zone?
Vote Conservative, get Reform: once again, Kemi Badenoch says something that Lib Dems will be quoting time and time again.
For the last week we've been asking Makerfield candidates to sign up to our ad code that commits to "make every effort not to mislead voters".
Thanks for your leadership in signing up Ed Gemmell.
Who is next @andyburnham.bsky.social, @libdems.org.uk, @greenparty.org.uk?
Farage has sent Yusuf to Washington “to convince key figures in and around the Trump administration that his party is their principal British ally”
He wants MAGA money to push “transatlantic concerns about civilisational decline”
ie - to spin prejudice into power.
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News Piece
Update on the Ebola virus outbreak in DR Congo
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A toothbrush, some toothpaste and a few minutes of care can prevent a life‑threatening infection. That’s rare in modern medicine.
A new police campaign focused on cycling and motorcycling, which claims that road safety is a “shared” responsibility, has been criticised by cyclists who say it “ignores the massive imbalance in risk...
🆕💥🔴Multicenter retrospective study of ICU patients with pneumonia
BIOFIRE® PN Panel implementation was associated with improved early antimicrobial de-escalation and appropriate therapy #idsky
academic.oup.com/cid/article-...
High-Dose Vitamin C in Burns
Time to Stop
🆕🔥🟢VICTORY RCT
High-dose intravenous vitamin C did not reduce mortality and organ dysfunction and may be associated with harm in patients with severe burn injury #EMIMCC
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
As of June 8, 2026, authorities in DR Congo are struggling to contain an outbreak
of Ebola virus disease due to Bundibugyo virus, with 598 confirmed cases and 115 deaths.
Talha Burki reports.
In this national, multicenter retrospective study of intensive care unit patients with pneumonia in Veterans Health Administration hospitals, BIOFIRE® PN P
This international randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of high-dose intravenous vitamin C in reducing 28-day mortality and persistent organ dysfunction (dependence on mechanical ventilati...
