Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides? Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake.

On Joe Rogan’s podcast, R.F.K., Jr., said that he had taken peptides himself and that, under his leadership, the F.D.A. would stop restricting many of them. The future of the agency—and the health of consumers—is at stake, Dhruv Khullar writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/t59pRm

And our final panel of the conference is 'Local politics and local state capacity'

With papers from:
@alfiegaffney.bsky.social
Joanie Willett et al
Lucas Borba
@karremannancy.bsky.social et al
Clare Maudling

Chair: @peckersley.bsky.social

📆Wed 1st April, 1.30pm, St Catz Riverside Seminar Room A

More than half of TikTok ADHD content is misinformation, new research finds Researchers found that social media platforms are ‘awash’ with misleading or unsubstantiated mental health content

More than half of TikTok ADHD content is misinformation, new research finds www.the-independent.com/tech/tiktok-...

"...52% of #ADHD -related videos and 41% of autism videos analysed on TikTok were inaccurate..."

(Left) Monika Kosinska with Prof. Anna Gilmore presenting at the Prevention 2026 Conference. (Right) Members of the LHGP team at the Prevention 2026 Conference.

Our March newsletter is out! At #PreventionConference2026, Monika Kosinska from the @who.int called LHGP a trailblazer for translating commercial determinants of health into local action. This month: webinars on misinformation and active travel, new resources, and more.

mailchi.mp/79219387372d...

New research; Developing guidance on assessing and managing conflicts of interest for a complex public health research consortium; Journal of research Management and Administration; PHI UK / Local Health and Global Profits

Cross-sector collaboration is increasing but how do you protect #research integrity? A new case study led by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social offers step-by-step guidance on designing and implementing conflicts of interest #COI policies for complex research consortiums.

Prevention Research 2026 preventionresearch26.co.uk Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity

Excited to be part of the Prevention Research Conference 2026 this week, joining global leaders in #CommercialDeterminantsofHealth, inc. @monikakosinska.bsky.social and Prof. Sharon Friel (Australian National University), and our very own Prof. Anna Gilmore (@uniofbath.bsky.social)

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Had a great time at #EPH2025 with this @lhgp.bsky.social team! So many great presentations to learn from across the spectrum of public health research 👏🏻

Anyone at #EPH2025 in Helsinki, come to Hall B today at 11.45 for session 6.B to hear about @lhgp.bsky.social’s work on commercial determinants of health @karremannancy.bsky.social @georginawort.bsky.social

Headshots of Professors Anna Gilmore and Harry Rutter. Text says '!8th European Health Conference 2025, Let's connect at #EPH2025

Researchers from the @lhgp.bsky.social research consortium will present work on local responses to commercial determinants of health at the 18th European Public Health Conference in Helsinki, 11-14 November 2025. #EHP2025

👉 Read more: www.phiuk.org/news/local-h...

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism

Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Alarming rise in misinformation about women’s health on social media, MONTRÉAL - Harmful diets, false information about intrauterine devices or abortion pills — misinformation and disinformation about women's health are spreading like wildfire on social media apps like ...

Yep.

Alarming rise in misinformation about women's health on social media, www.thestar.com/news/alarmin... via @thestar.com

"Harmful diets, false information about intrauterine devices or abortion pills — misinformation and disinformation about women’s health are spreading..."

End the Gender Pension Gap for public sector women This will make a real difference to millions of women and shows what can be done when pension schemes take this issue seriously.  We are calling on all other public sector pension schemes- coveri...

Every year the average retired woman earns £7,600 less than the average retired man. The Gender Pension Gap sits at 36.5% - more than double the Gender Pay Gap!

Call on public sector employers to do more, including making statutory parental leave pensionable, and sign here: bit.ly/3Vn1NS3

How to take over a government via PDFs The long march of the Resolution Foundation

An interesting policy debate: should you just give institutions money to do research, or make them bid?

In think-tanks, two of the most effective outfits over the past twenty years have been Resolution Foundation and Centre for Cities - both with core funding

www.economist.com/britain/2025...

this thread was extraordinarily helpful and shaped my thinking on this. unrolled it for easier reading.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

It’s never been about “the science.”

New episode of Money Power Health is now out! Thanks so much to @vickycann.bsky.social from @corporateeurope.bsky.social who joined me to discuss lobbying by forever chemicals or PFAS manufacturers at the EU level: t.co/DjCGXKyO7A @eupha.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social CDoH

Triangulating from “trans women are women” to appease transphobes until you land at the exciting new position: “no women are women.”

UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms

taking the opportunity to shamelessly promoting my research on corporate power and UPFs off the back of @theguardian.com's investigative work

we need to start thinking about industry strategies in terms of a wider political economy of delay

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Palantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitals US spy tech firm's £330million software isn't much cop, experts say

🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform?

Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good

Scoop on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

“Stop, don’t touch, run away!”: reconceptualizing firearm industry-funded youth education programs as corporate political activity - Globalization and Health Background Injuries represent a major threat to child health globally. In the US, firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among children and adolescents. Despite limited evidence of their effe...

Reading this brilliant article from @maizie333.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social et al today.

Hard to think of a bigger contradiction than selling guns and calling your PR exercise/educational program “lifesaving” 🤢

#CDOH #PublicHealth

doi.org/10.1186/s129...

We are hiring! We're looking for two post-doc researchers to help us deliver a randomised controlled trial of group model building to address inequalities in diet in English local authorities.

Two 3y posts, ideally starting in July. Closing date 4 May.

Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50905/

Thanks so much, Cara!

also @mrcepid.bsky.social !

We did an analysis for the House of Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access):

nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...

@martinwhite33.bsky.social @jeanmadams.bsky.social + Mike Essman + Ben Hawkins

📣 Paper accepted! Our research on media framing of calorie labelling shows one way "lifestyle drift" occurs in obesity policy.

Analysis of 177 articles reveals how approaches get reframed as individual responsibility in public discourse.

#PublicHealth #PolicyResearch

www.ijhpm.com/article_4723...

Reputational revival and industry survival: A rhetorical analysis of tobacco industry evidence before a UK parliamentary select committee. The tobacco industry are facing an existential threat from increasingly stringent tobacco control policies. At the same time, their exclusion from pol…

Highly recommend this new 📜 on Tobacco industry & ENDS regulation by Ben Hawkins& @maizie333.bsky.social! ❤ the title "Reputational revival and industry survival" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...