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Lesley Kay
@genq5lesley.bsky.social
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National Clinical Director for MSK conditions (NHS England), GIRFT National Clinical Lead for Rheumatology, GenQ Fellow, Rheumatologist
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Sometimes you don’t need to do your own research. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 14, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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Well, there’s a story.
When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.
December 5, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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Abstracts authored by all-female teams are less likely to get accepted for presentation at economics conferences than those authored by all-male teams, even after adjusting for the authors’ prior track records and institutional prestige
Tweet from JohnHolbein1: “All-female-authored papers are less likely to be accepted at economics conferences than all-male papers even when adjusting for... 1. the number of authors on a paper, 2. referees' traits, 3. subtield, 4. # of cites, 5. previous record of the authors, 6. connections between the authors of a given paper and the referees that evaluate it, AND 7. authors' institutional prestige.” Screenshot of the study: OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 83, 3 (2021) 0305-9049 doi: 10.1111/obes.12409 Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research: Evidence from Submissions to Economics Conferences* LAURA HOSPIDOT and CARLOS SANZ
December 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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jsm2334.bsky.social
Just publish paper evaluating effects of vaccination on long COVID risks in children/adolescents during Delta/Omicron periods

We found vaccines strongly protected against long COVID-19, and the effect was almost wholly mediated by reduced infection risk

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December 9, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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stokemacca.bsky.social
We need full-on Michael Marmot and less belief in shiny toys that offer false hope of “prevention”. I know that’s not a popular position, but improving the health of populations requires doing things that improve the health of the population.
helensalisbury.bsky.social Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · Dec 10
On unexpected deaths and why we can't all 'take control of our health:
'The brutal fact is that our health is determined by many things we can’t control. We don’t choose our genetic inheritance and can’t influence the material circumstances we grow up in'
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Helen Salisbury: An illusion of control
We’ve been shaken recently in our surgery by some unexpected diagnoses and sudden deaths that have reminded us of how poor doctors can be at predicting the future health of patients. With some people ...
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December 10, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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georgiabanjo.bsky.social
Really interesting work from John Hopkins & @drjoshs.bsky.social quantifying the life expectancy gap between the US & the UK:

❤️ Cardiovascular disease 57% of the gap
💉Drugs overdoses 32%
🔫Gun-related deaths 20%
🚗Car crashes 17%

😷Covid & cancer -26% (UK worse for both)

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December 4, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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SURVIVAL IS NOT ENOUGH. If all our survival needs are unconditionally met, suddenly we're all more able to find the things that make life meaningful. Don't you see? No one wants to just survive, so if we guarantee survival with Universal Basic Income, we catalyze the mass pursuit of true purpose.
Two images depicting Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. One depicts everyone at ground level looking up at all five levels from bottom to top: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. The other image depicts everyone happily existing above the bottom two levels, instead looking at only the top three and cheering how much better it is starting there instead of the bottom.
December 5, 2024 at 7:47 PM
genq5lesley.bsky.social
Oh if the right people could be listening to this
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Nov 21
This cardigan is called Teams. Every square is a meeting that could have been an email. It’s actually Teams Mk II as its predecessor had a bad experience with the washing machine.
#knitting 🧶
November 21, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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jonroom.bsky.social
Physiotherapists’ perceptions of how patient adherence and non-adherence to recommended exercise for musculoskeletal conditions affects their practice: a qualitative study

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Physiotherapists’ perceptions of how patient adherence and non-adherence to recommended exercise for musculoskeletal conditions affects their practice: a qualitative study
The aim of this study was to explore physiotherapists’ perceptions of how patients’ adherence and non-adherence to recommended exercise affects their …
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November 20, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Drug companies Pfizer and Flynn abused their dominant positions by charging excessive prices for life saving epilepsy drug, phenytoin sodium capsules between 2012- 2016

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Tribunal fines drug firms £69m for excessive pricing after CMA investigation
Firms which raised prices for key epilepsy medicine – causing NHS costs to soar to £50 million – found by the CAT to have breached competition law.
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November 20, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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#Frailty screening with comprehensive #geriatrician-led multidisciplinary assessment for older adults during #emergency hospital attendance in Ireland (SOLAR): a randomised controlled trial

#Care #Geriatrics #OlderPersons #CGA #ER #Research

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Frailty screening with comprehensive geriatrician-led multidisciplinary assessment for older adults during emergency hospital attendance in Ireland (SOLAR): a randomised controlled trial
Geriatrician-led multidisciplinary assessment of older adults living with frailty was associated with reduced time spent in the emergency department setting at index visit and lower rates of nursing h...
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November 20, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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#physiotherapy
November 19, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Our latest paper looks at why people leave #NHS roles
People give multiple reasons for leaving (not just one)
We have started to see supervisory burden and taskification emerge as contributory factors. Distress, overwork & understaffing were common

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September 29, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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NICE consultation on prevention/assessment falls guideline. Open until 28th Nov. Please consider a response if UK based expert/organisation/interested member of public.
#medsky #gerisky
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Consultation on updated guideline to assess and prevent falls in older people
NICE launches consultation on updated guideline to assess and prevent falls in older people.
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November 14, 2024 at 2:43 PM