Tomorrow is Rare Disease Day 🦓 3.5 million people live with a rare condition in the UK. The Exeter PRP Evidence Review Facility, led by PenARC’s Prof Jo Thompson Coon, developed a toolkit highlighting inequalities in care 🔗 bit.ly/4shkmFI 🧦We’re in zebra socks to support!
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Sharing another Isca Evidence Briefing Paper - all about a #systematicreview of different #digital programs supporting people to lose weight, we identified the features & used component network meta-analysis to determine which features were linked to better #weightloss

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GLP-1 RAs for Weight Loss - what do we know?

With Mountjaro in the news again - here's a #podcast episode about our recent #scopingreview of network meta-analyses of GLP-1 RAs for #weightloss - enjoy!

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Back to school vibes are in the air & the sense of motivation is contagious... why not take the opportunity to benefit from our early bird rate & book a space on our #SystematicReviews of #MixedMethods evidence CPD course?

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How can technology support weight loss programmes as the NHS shifts its focus? We welcome a guest blog from our colleague at Isca Evidence, Morgan Weiland, on the team’s recent work on digital weight loss programmes. Isca Evidence is one of nine research groups in the U…

News on the blog: How can technology support weight loss programmes as the NHS shifts its focus?

#systematicreview #obesity #threeshifts

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A study published in the journal Age and Ageing has shown that inappropriate polypharmacy – the excessive or unnecessary use of multiple medications – significantly contributes to emergency hospital admissions amongst adults aged 65 and over.

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Digital Components for Effective Weight Loss Interventions Evidence Streaming · Episode

New episode on our podcast

6 minutes & 9 seconds is all you need to learn about digital components for effective weight loss interventions

#obesity #weightloss #digital

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Elderly people being excluded from medical research in UK, charities warn The exclusion of older people from research due to arbitrary age cut-offs could stall the development of life-saving treatments

No justification for arbitrary age cut-offs in clinical trials (e.g. excluding patients over 75) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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GLP-1 RAs for Weight Loss - what do we know? Evidence Streaming · Episode

No time to read our recent publication on GLP-1RAs for weightloss? Have a listen to the podcast!

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#obesity #weightloss #wegovy #systematicreview #ozempic

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Join us for #OnlyConnect25 celebrating the power of #intergenerational and inclusive practice/research - hosted at Newlyn Art Gallery, with an expedition to Potager Garden for a magical evening meal.

Get ready to connect, make, talk, wonder and look beyond the horizon to what is possible.

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🧠 How can tech support weight loss as the NHS shifts focus?

New blog from Isca Evidence explores digital tools in obesity care—framed by the NHS 10-Year Plan’s 3 shifts:
🏥 Hospital → Community
💻 Analogue → Digital
🩺 Treatment → Prevention
🔗 bit.ly/4mqxepR

#DigitalHealth #ObesityPrevention

How can technology support weight loss programmes as the NHS shifts its focus? We welcome a guest blog from our colleague at Isca Evidence, Morgan Weiland, on the team’s recent work on digital weight loss programmes. Isca Evidence is one of nine research groups in the U…

News on the blog: Read about our recent work on digital tools to support weight loss in the context of the Ten Year Health Plan for England

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A humourous image likening AI company logos to an anus. An outline of a human posterior is covered in AI company logos, with the Claude AI logo centrally and humourously placed for effect.

Why do AI company logos all look like buttholes? Warning: you can't unsee it

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Evidence of inequities experienced by the rare disease community with respect to receipt of a diagnosis and access to services: a scoping review of UK and international evidence - Orphanet Journal of ... Background People with a rare disease find it difficult to obtain a diagnosis and access appropriate services. Evidence suggests that this can lead to health inequity amongst the rare disease communit...

New paper: Evidence of inequities experienced by the #raredisease community with respect to receipt of a diagnosis & access to services: #scopingreview of UK & international evidence

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Join us for two days of talks and workshops celebrating the power of intergenerational and inclusive practice and research.

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New research from the Evidence Synthesis Team - read more on their #evidencegapmap on #topicalsteroidwithdrawal

Topical Steroid Withdrawal: Evidence, Anecdotes, and Everything In Between Is there a mismatch between academic literature and social media? Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome (TSWS) is considered a rare side effect of using steroid creams. It is estimated that over 100 …

Learning about topical steroid withdrawal was a real eye-opener! Our evidence gap map brings together academic research and social media posts. Check out our blog for details #tsws #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal @penarc.bsky.social evidsynthteam.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/t...

A common question we hear is, if I use #AI in my #systematicreview, what level of potential error is acceptable?

Help us understand community expectations to inform future work via this NEW SURVEY: lnkd.in/e6tcTKfg

Open til 2 Jul, ~35mins @cochrane.org @campbellreviews.bsky.social

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⭐Updated Responsible AI use in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) 3-paper collection on OSF: osf.io/fwaud/files/... ⭐

Now includes:
1️⃣Recommendations for practice for the main roles in the ecosystem
2️⃣ Guidance on building & evaluating AI tools
3️⃣Guidance on selecting & using AI tools

Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE): guidance and recommendations The RAISE guidance is currently written in three documents. The first document, ‘RAISE 1’, provides tailored recommendations for eight of the distinct roles in the evidence synthesis ecosystem: eviden...

Just published - updated guidance and recommendations for the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis (RAISE): osf.io/fwaud/

We're doing a webinar on this in about an hour!

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The NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) June 2025 newsletter The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: ARC events across England for Dementia Action Week, launch of #ARCseminar series on the healing power of creative arts, national...

Explore the June roundup of top stories from all 15 of our NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs):

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Topical Steroid Withdrawal: Evidence, Anecdotes, and Everything In Between Is there a mismatch between academic literature and social media? Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome (TSWS) is considered a rare side effect of using steroid creams. It is estimated that over 100 …

News on our blog: Find out more about a recent project on #topicalsteroidwithdrawal and the mismatch between academic literature and #patientexperience

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Naga Munchetty: My first period made me faint - but doctors said it was normal The journalist described having to throw up while presenting BBC Breakfast due to the pain of adenomyosis

“When I started my period at 15, I passed out, threw up, was petrified about what was happening and was told it was normal.”

Sexual violence a ‘national emergency’ in UK schools amid rise of AI deepfake porn Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, cited AI-deepfakes as the next issue schools across the nation will have to tackle

“But if this isn’t a national emergency – one rape per day in schools – then I don’t know what is.”