Mark Toshner
@mark-toshner.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @Cambridge/ Director VPD HLRI Clin Res Facility/ expert faultitasker/ trades in barely informed science opinions/ views are personal
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
After our mammoth international patient engagement work- some actions for the global community to consider pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40662200/
Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey: A Call to Action 2025 - PubMed
Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey: A Call to Action 2025
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
July 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
After our mammoth international patient engagement work- some actions for the global community to consider pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40662200/
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The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread
Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
First ever international survey of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Wonderful collaborative work. Lots of important and useful insights. t.co/XTvpbS4g8Y
https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00297-2025
t.co
July 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
First ever international survey of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Wonderful collaborative work. Lots of important and useful insights. t.co/XTvpbS4g8Y
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My excellent student winning the best type of award. One for actually remembering the patient in amongst our research! bsky.app/profile/camb...
AND FINAL CONGRATULATIONS to @cam.ac.uk MPhil student Vidisha Handoo, whose poster was voted the best of those on display at last week's Cambridge #PPI Showcase day @angliaruskin.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk Thanks to ALL our presenters & poster submissions, you were all great! 3/3
June 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My excellent student winning the best type of award. One for actually remembering the patient in amongst our research! bsky.app/profile/camb...
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AND FINAL CONGRATULATIONS to @cam.ac.uk MPhil student Vidisha Handoo, whose poster was voted the best of those on display at last week's Cambridge #PPI Showcase day @angliaruskin.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk Thanks to ALL our presenters & poster submissions, you were all great! 3/3
June 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
AND FINAL CONGRATULATIONS to @cam.ac.uk MPhil student Vidisha Handoo, whose poster was voted the best of those on display at last week's Cambridge #PPI Showcase day @angliaruskin.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk Thanks to ALL our presenters & poster submissions, you were all great! 3/3
Glasgow. Where the people are funniest because the weather is no joke. Good to be home!
June 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Glasgow. Where the people are funniest because the weather is no joke. Good to be home!
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I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
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www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/.... Our most recent work attacking RV failure! @mark-toshner.bsky.social @ahascience.bsky.social @ahajournals.bsky.social
Lactobacillus Restructures the Micro/Mycobiome to Combat Inflammation-Mediated Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension | Circulation: Heart Failure
BACKGROUND: Inflammation suppresses right ventricular (RV) function in pulmonary arterial hypertension
(PAH). In particular, we showed GP130 (glycoprotein-130) signaling promotes pathological
microtub...
www.ahajournals.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/.... Our most recent work attacking RV failure! @mark-toshner.bsky.social @ahascience.bsky.social @ahajournals.bsky.social
That joyous moment when you get rid of the 🐵 on your back, AKA submitting that 27 page rebuttal after 9 months of revisions… 🎉 images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5...
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April 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
That joyous moment when you get rid of the 🐵 on your back, AKA submitting that 27 page rebuttal after 9 months of revisions… 🎉 images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5...
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⭐️Meet the speaker⭐️
We’re delighted to have @mark-toshner.bsky.social joining #DDDS2025, who will be speaking on 'How to define or prove disease modification'.
We’re delighted to have @mark-toshner.bsky.social joining #DDDS2025, who will be speaking on 'How to define or prove disease modification'.
April 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
⭐️Meet the speaker⭐️
We’re delighted to have @mark-toshner.bsky.social joining #DDDS2025, who will be speaking on 'How to define or prove disease modification'.
We’re delighted to have @mark-toshner.bsky.social joining #DDDS2025, who will be speaking on 'How to define or prove disease modification'.
I think most senior doctors in UK in positions of importance/power have just turned away rather than consider how terribly demoralised the trainees are by the current awful system.
April 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I think most senior doctors in UK in positions of importance/power have just turned away rather than consider how terribly demoralised the trainees are by the current awful system.
Quite a stunning result this. Sotatercept in severe pulmonary arterial hypertension www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Sotatercept in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension at High Risk for Death | NEJM
Sotatercept improves exercise capacity and delays the time to clinical worsening in
patients with World Health Organization (WHO) functional class II or III pulmonary
arterial hypertension. The eff...
www.nejm.org
April 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Quite a stunning result this. Sotatercept in severe pulmonary arterial hypertension www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
‘My dad is so cringe’. I’ve reached peak parenting
March 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
‘My dad is so cringe’. I’ve reached peak parenting
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🎥 Highlights from yesterday's VPD-HLRI Monthly Seminar! Great talks by Prof. Jason Gill from @uofglasgow.bsky.social and our very own Prof. Murray Clarke.
Thanks to our speakers and attendees!
#HLRI #MetabolicHealth #VascularInflammation @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
@murrayclarkelab.bsky.social
Thanks to our speakers and attendees!
#HLRI #MetabolicHealth #VascularInflammation @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
@murrayclarkelab.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🎥 Highlights from yesterday's VPD-HLRI Monthly Seminar! Great talks by Prof. Jason Gill from @uofglasgow.bsky.social and our very own Prof. Murray Clarke.
Thanks to our speakers and attendees!
#HLRI #MetabolicHealth #VascularInflammation @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
@murrayclarkelab.bsky.social
Thanks to our speakers and attendees!
#HLRI #MetabolicHealth #VascularInflammation @cambridgeuni.bsky.social
@murrayclarkelab.bsky.social
Just gave a talk with the absolute brightest lights I’ve ever had blinding me from back of auditorium. Really affected my game!
March 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Just gave a talk with the absolute brightest lights I’ve ever had blinding me from back of auditorium. Really affected my game!
The view from Adelaide convention centre is a bit special eh?!
March 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The view from Adelaide convention centre is a bit special eh?!
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Very excited to share our work in Imatinib in PAH. Read on for the TLDR
t.co/q7Uyg8uRdJ
t.co/q7Uyg8uRdJ
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40080796/
t.co
March 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Very excited to share our work in Imatinib in PAH. Read on for the TLDR
t.co/q7Uyg8uRdJ
t.co/q7Uyg8uRdJ
Very excited to share our work in Imatinib in PAH. Read on for the TLDR
t.co/q7Uyg8uRdJ
t.co/q7Uyg8uRdJ
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40080796/
t.co
March 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Very excited to share our work in Imatinib in PAH. Read on for the TLDR
t.co/q7Uyg8uRdJ
t.co/q7Uyg8uRdJ
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Longer term post-hospital morbidity and mortality following admission with Covid-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Longer term post-hospital morbidity and mortality following admission with Covid-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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@charlottesummers.bsky.social @mark-toshner.bsky.social @lukeflower.bsky.social
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“Johns Hopkins has bet very heavily on a century & a quarter of partnership with the federal government,” said Dr. Theodore Iwashyna, a critical-care physician… “If the federal government decides it doesn’t want to know things anymore, that would be bad for Johns Hopkins & devastating for Maryland.”
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“Johns Hopkins has bet very heavily on a century & a quarter of partnership with the federal government,” said Dr. Theodore Iwashyna, a critical-care physician… “If the federal government decides it doesn’t want to know things anymore, that would be bad for Johns Hopkins & devastating for Maryland.”
In other news- NASA to investigate flat earth claims www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/h...
C.D.C. Will Investigate Debunked Link Between Vaccines and Autism
Dozens of studies have failed to find evidence of a link. The decision to re-examine the question comes as a measles outbreak, driven by low vaccination rates, widens in Texas.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In other news- NASA to investigate flat earth claims www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/h...
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My great grandparents were immigrants to the UK (on both sides). At dinner with my 85 yr old uncle he told me a story that has been sitting with me and I’d like to share.
March 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
My great grandparents were immigrants to the UK (on both sides). At dinner with my 85 yr old uncle he told me a story that has been sitting with me and I’d like to share.
My great grandparents were immigrants to the UK (on both sides). At dinner with my 85 yr old uncle he told me a story that has been sitting with me and I’d like to share.
March 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
My great grandparents were immigrants to the UK (on both sides). At dinner with my 85 yr old uncle he told me a story that has been sitting with me and I’d like to share.