Pregnant and breastfeeding women have long been systematically excluded from clinical trials.
The choice is no longer between protection and participation, but between managed risk with evidence and unmanaged risk without it
https://bit.ly/4voC501
Midwives play a critical role in ensuring every newborn gets the care they need — from immediate assessment and resuscitation to breastfeeding support and early detection of complications
This #ResourceTuesday, explore our newborn care resource: zurl.co/fbJGA
Our editorial about the new breastfeeding peer support trial in the UK by Kate Jolly and colleagues is now available @bmj.com
🤱🏼🤱🏾🤱🏻
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
Here's the link to access the full editorial:
bmj.com/cgi/content/...
Our editorial about the new breastfeeding peer support trial in the UK by Kate Jolly and colleagues is now available @bmj.com
🤱🏼🤱🏾🤱🏻
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
Four fragments of egg shell painted with floral patterns in bright colours on the inside all on a grey surface
Painted eggshells fragments by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt #EasterMonday
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Science is saving lives. Every. Single. Day.
💙Talk about it. Share it. Celebrate it.
Drop your favourite public health win below 👇 and follow WHO to stay in the know.
Stylised painting featuring a pink moon over green waves
"Pink Moon Over Water". Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt #fullmoon #Pinkmoon
See clear example of hallucinated references here. Real authors have published on similar topic, but AI has made this one up!
This week I’m looking at forwarding, a key aspect of working with literatures patthomson.net/2026/03/30/f...
Line graph shows US newborn Hepatitis B virus vaccination rates, forecasting the ratio of HBV vaccinations within 30 days of birth to live births in the US. Actual, ARIMA forecast, and training data are plotted from 2017-2026.
#HepatitisB virus newborn vaccination rates in the US peaked at 83% in early 2023 but dropped to 73% by August 2025, coinciding with increased public discourse regarding childhood vaccination.
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I want to give a big shout out to researchers at @latrobe.edu.au who are working hard on #longcovid. But they still need a few more people for this study!! Please, please, get in touch using the details on this flyer.
When I grew up in the 1970s, there were just a handful of vaccines
Today, we are lucky to have vaccines against more than 20 diseases!
Science has worked, what we need is greater access & less disinformation!
ICYMI BMJ News has a summary of Koren's misleading case report abt death of breastfed infant and codeine:
Breastfeeding and codeine guidance in doubt after calls for retraction of pivotal Lancet study
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Photograph of a quayside on which a large-scale sculpture of a rusty red starfish rests on one point as if dancing sited near small boats in the harbour under a blue sky
'Guiding Star' by contemporary Irish sculptor Rachel Joynt #womensart #FridayFeeling
Australia to mandate controls on infant formula marketing www.croakey.org/australia-to... #publichealth
🚀 Applications now open!
$15,000 Accelerating Innovators in Clinical Care Grants support higher degree research in human milk nutrition for preterm infants and their families.
🇦🇺 Australian residents | ⏰ Closes 5 May 2026
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#HealthResearch #NeonatalCare
"'It helps you read 50 papers in a month rather than 50 in a year.'"
What's lost when a goal of graduate school is volume rather than careful reading? A few things.
I learned to write academic papers by learning to read academic papers and attend to their structure and authors' rhetorical moves. 🧵
Thanks for sharing @elisabethbik.bsky.social
"... microbes on the camel's camel is very important so as not to induce ... contaminated milk or diseases that affect the
breast of the camel or camels"
"Mastitis alludes to the provocative disease in the
mammary organ ..."!
#Mastitis #MammaryGland #Milk
Data from the Barwon Infant Study based on families in Geelong, Victoria , Australia. Down the road from me 🙂
Research finds women taxi drivers frustrations were rarely traffic, difficult passengers or long shifts, but toilets. Finding a toilet on shift required planning & long waits, leading to lost income. Their male colleagues seemed to come and go in minutes. theconversation.com/why-women-ha...
More about hallucinationed references. All reviewers and editors need to check all manuscripts to avoid this happening!
Thanks so much for your amazing work, Lisa! 🙏
Important news!
International Breastfeeding Journal appoints new Editors-in-Chief: A/Prof Cecilia Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social and Prof Sonia Hernandez-Cordero.
Congratulations 🎉
Time for me to step down after 21 years 🤨 #LifeOfAJournalEditor
link.springer.com/journal/1300...
Important news!
International Breastfeeding Journal appoints new Editors-in-Chief: A/Prof Cecilia Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social and Prof Sonia Hernandez-Cordero.
Congratulations 🎉
Time for me to step down after 21 years 🤨 #LifeOfAJournalEditor
link.springer.com/journal/1300...
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
Western Gull in Blowing in the Wind #birds
Lithium’s half-life is longer than most meds - 24 hours or so. But even longer in people with reduced kidney function. So, lithium level can gradually rise and then move out of the narrow therapeutic range into toxic range if the person gets gastro or dehydrated or similar
