To whom to subscribe to Telegram: 10 fascinating channels about health
Olga Lukinskaya
Telegram, in addition to the messenger, remains the only social network without annoying comments and likes, and more and more interesting thematic blogs appear on it - about fashion, books or food and restaurants. There are also channels on medical topics - for doctors and anyone interested in their health. We already wrote about the dental blog of Marina Kuznetsova Dental Jedi and the pediatrician Fedor Katasonov's channel "Fedatriya", and you probably had long been signed for Medical Journalist Dasha Sarkisyan, Marianna Mirzoyan and Karina Nazaretyan. Today we have prepared a selection of less well-known, but no less useful telegram channels related to medicine.
Dr. IBRAGEEK
Ibrahim Salamov, a student at a medical school, leads a blog in a telegram with a huge number of interesting links - first of all, about discoveries and inventions that have happened in medicine literally over the last week. Link selections come out in a convenient format without too much information: a short headline such as “Australians got a big toe attached to their hand” or “An antioxidant created in Russia turned out to be a strong antibiotic” - and links to sources in Russian and English. On the channel you can find funny (and not so) stories from medical practice, and just diary entries about student everyday life, and definitions of such mysterious terms as "Robin Hood syndrome" or "recurvation".
Oncology Fellow
Sophia Menshikova’s channel is dedicated to oncology, but it’s not at all scary to read - the author writes about the latest developments in cancer treatment and topics that are indirectly related to him, interesting even to those who don’t know anything about medicine. You can find reading recommendations in a blog — for example, the oncologist Siddhartha Mukkerji, for whom the writer received the Pulitzer Prize and was listed as one of the hundred most influential people compiled by Time, learn about the book The King of All Diseases. Sometimes Sofia talks about phenomena such as the movement of preferences, or interesting facts, such as a lawsuit from Nintendo to scientists who called the Pokémon gene important in the development of tumors.
Common sense injections
Selection of medical news, dispelling myths, clarifying terms and answering any questions from readers - from caries of dairy teeth to the benefits of working at a computer while standing. This channel can bring practical - literally financial - benefits: how else can you find out what the expenses for braces, professional dental hygiene, and even Botox injections are legally required tax deduction? There are not very many records on this channel yet, but the authors promise to help find the answer to the eternal question of how to distinguish a good doctor from a bad one.
Notes of the young doctor
"The author's channel with medlayfkhakami and simple stories about complex medical things" - as stated in the description - will appeal not only to those who are passionate about medicine. This is a blog with a human face, in the literal sense: the author Zhenya publishes self after a seven-hour pathophysiology class and talks about fellow students who are already experienced ambulance workers (they often come to the medical institute with nursing or medical assistants). From this channel you can learn about Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin’s family history, whose great-grandfather killed a giving birth wife during an exacerbation of the disease, about such things as dyslexia, or about the reasons for the popularity of fidget spinners among children.
Rumyantseva_MD
A practicing gynecologist Tatyana Rumyantseva says that she simply loves her patients and dreams that there are fewer scary stories in the world and more happy people. In a telegram, she destroys such persistent myths of post-Soviet medicine as the need to treat everyone from infections like ureaplasmosis, mycoplasmosis, or gardnerellosis, and tells how to protect yourself from a dangerous tumor — cervical cancer — with the help of vaccination. Short records are accompanied by links to more detailed articles in the blog of the author.
Shbmnk
Channel journalist with higher medical education Olya Kashubina about evidence-based medicine, medical news and unexpected discoveries - such as the fact that the cardiological drug carvedilol, as it turned out, protects the skin from melanoma and other types of cancer. Olya says that the situations observed in melodramas - when the main character dies from a brain tumor that hasn’t practically manifested itself for a long time - are extremely rare in real life. In the blog, you can find answers to questions about what exactly the harm of energy drinks is and why there is such a high demand for CT and MRI among patients for any reason.
Children's Doctor Notes
This channel is led by pediatrician Sergei Butriy, who raises important topics - including HIV-related dissidents and anti-vaccines, which at times thicken paint specialists in breastfeeding and other movements trying to refute evidence-based medicine. The doctor reminds readers of simple, but very important things: a child's acute respiratory viral infection is not a contraindication to vaccination, alcohol even in minimal amounts can be life threatening, and not a single child or teenager is insured against sexual violence.
Medtech
This channel should appeal to those who are not indifferent to technology: here it’s about developing video games specifically for people with autism and Alzheimer's disease, and about neural networks in screening systems for skin cancer, and how Google creates networks for eye disease detection and planning. radiation therapy of the brain. The blog has a selection of genetic tests available in Russia, news about the near-medical investments of Zuckerberg and Ilona Mask, and a detailed analysis of what is behind the news about the invention of a cancer drug "with fantastic" efficiency in Russia.
Child psychiatry
The information in this blog should reassure many parents whose children have ever been given non-existent diagnoses, such as "mental retardation". On the other hand, children's psychiatrists Elisha Osin and Elizaveta Meshkova, the authors of this channel, remind us that childhood is not such a carefree period as it may seem to us, and children's problems should not be taken as unreal - refusal to take them seriously can bring the child to suicide. And children have the most real depression that needs to be treated.
ASSS
This is a channel where, from a scientific point of view, they tell how a person’s sexuality and socialization work. What is antisemitism in terms of psychology? How does the irony work? Why do people swear? How is sexual behavior associated with the evolution of the brain area that analyzes smells? For each of these and for many other questions on this channel there is a link to the video clip with the answers - on YouTube or, for example, the TED channel.