You will not find a clearer thinker and good human being to boot. Medical leadership is painfully difficult and unfortunately full of mediocrity at an important time for the profession. Vote for someone better! bsky.app/profile/drlk...
An excellent candidate IMO, careful, thoughtful, and passionate about training enough high quality doctors.
Voting opens today for @rcphysicians.bsky.social elections.
I am standing for Vice President for Education and Training.
It's the first elections where Members will also be able to vote. Please encourage all eligible to exercise their franchise.
More about me here:
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The Blue Journal thanks Eckart De Bie, MD, MPhil, for his contribution to the January issue
Inflammation and Obesity Correlate in Pulmonary Hypertension but Associate with Diverging Outcomes
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Every once in a while awards committees get it right! If there is a more deserving person out there of this than Marc Humbert, I don’t know them!
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Vaccine-related fevers?…
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/
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.
Patients are generally positive about changing how they are cared for long term but models will need to be mixed methods if they are to be inclusive
4) around 1/3 using smartwatches
Just as important though is that consistently 20%+ don’t want care to involve decentralised techniques
2) 80% are positive about care delivered remotely with technology
3)48% are already monitoring their own health regularly in community (1/3 using apps)
Few things to chew about modes of care first- I expect they are common across most rare diseases.
1) patient travel hundreds of km for hours, usual in their own car to get to appointments. 45% leave feeling the consultation does not reflect how they feel
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
For balance. The next day!
Glasgow. Where the people are funniest because the weather is no joke. Good to be home!
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.
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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
No idea the latest drama but ‘turning out to be’ seems to be a temporally polite way of phrasing this…
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...
⭐️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'.
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.
The drugs is coming downstream btw!
Among other things coffee, bananas, cars that can turn, computers, drugs and decent humanity about to run into supply problems…
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
Honestly. They absolutely don’t fund risky stuff. They say they want world changing research but they fund work that is usually safe as houses.