Sometimes you don’t need to do your own research. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Hi Deborah! Good to see you this week

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.

Well, there’s a story.

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

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

Please please please also include #msk problems alongside obesity and diabetes

And please can we ensure there’s a good representation of training in managing children and young people

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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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.

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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Very much needed explanation : NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS DOES NOT EQUAL HUMAN FACTORS

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.

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.

Oh if the right people could be listening to this

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 …

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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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.

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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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...

#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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#physiotherapy

She’s a tenant farmer and became a baroness by being president of her union

Trying to find the clan over here! Thank you Sue

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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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.

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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Yes but… you were there at the appointment, this is an account of your conversation to the GP…? I always write to you (the patient) with any new information