Is the UK paying the price for world’s most expensive visas? | The Observer Competing political and economic goals on immigration are resulting in the loss of valuable skills and talent in the UK

The Crick is paying £800,000 in visa fees alone. Britain is choosing to turn inwards, away from the world, and to destroy its own future. That is not Britain. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

It's all moved off site and is a real pain to wait for them to retrieve from the depository. Miss the old RSL.

I can’t believe we have to explain the difference between transgenic and transgender mice

True, particularly for services, but in many goods & foods domains intra-provincial trade faces greater friction than intra-EU.

Canada itself is not a single market due to divergent provincial regulatory, licensing and excise fee structures. So subsuming Canada into SM would be doubly good.

The inevitable cost. Not only people eventually dying of HIV-associated diseases, but that along the way there will be a massive explosion in antiretroviral drug resistance as some of those living with HIV skip doses to help out friends.

Yougov today finding net favourability amongst the UK electorate of Zelensky at +48% and Trump at -51% makes this a no brainer.

Truly British Atlanticism is a bridge to nowhere with this US admin.

Or as the @telegraphnews.bsky.social editorial staff prefer to call it - the 'Roman" salute 😱

Don't give Streeting ideas for next 2025 pay round negotiations

Yes I'm in a very boring epilepsy MDT so following every twist in Seoul.

1.5hrs in and we've discussed 1 case, and the radiology only took 30 secs 😭

I think the RoK National Assembly just voted to end martial law by majority of 190-0... As per auto translate and live Korean TV.

Everything is fine 🙂

RoK president is likely facing impeachment proceedings from the opposition controlled national assembly... Something for Trump to mull for his next time.

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

Track records usually matter though and as an avid observer of DHSC not found any evidence of delivered change or impact (let alone positive) since 2016.

Imagining what he would have been like on the phone to the ED SHO trying to send a referral...

17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19.

New article by me & Lucas at Our World in Data!

The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.

We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:

China similarly found statistically significant rise in Situs Inversus births during C19 surge.

Absolute risk of congenital heart defect etc remains v low.

Hypothetically would fit proven SARS-CoV-2 in vivo cilia dysfunction. Cilia being crucial in L-R embryology patterning and cardiac folding.

Keep seeing references to UK food security.
Since the mid-19th century UK food security has meant the ability to keep the sea lanes open and imports flowing in. Not the ability to produce domestic needs at home.

Can only hope that once in position they wouldn't be so craven and dishonest. For the sake of US & global public health and progress of mankind in medical science. Urgh

He really wants a position in the new Trump Admin doesn't he?

Seen posts suggesting Jay Bhattacharya was in line for the NIH top job 🙄

Tirzepatide for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity | NEJM Obesity increases the risk of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Tirzepatide, a long-acting agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor...

Last year thought SGLT2 inhibitors would be the revolutionary HFpEF med of our time.

SUMMIT Trial of Tirzepatide (dual GIP/GLP1-R agonist) just demonstrated a greater effect size in reducing risk of death from cardiovascular causes or worsening Heart Failure 🔻 38%.
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www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

“Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year.” #IDSky

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hi Tom! Could I join the MedSky community please?

Worst Trump cabinet nominee so far?

1️⃣ RFK Jr - Health
2️⃣ Tulsi Gabbard - Director of National Intelligence
3️⃣ Pete Hegseth - Defense
4️⃣ Matt Gaetz - Attorney General

📊 Show results

A stupendous 93% reduction in 3-yr diabetes incidence risk.

0.07 Hazard ratio for diabetes of Tirzepatide (dual GIP/GLP1-R agonist) in patients with obesity.

Drug effects of this magnitude outside of preventative ID vaccines are absolutely wild.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke

Wait, isn't he the horse?
That's loose.
In a hospital.

youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU?...

So much sense and clear thinking about trial design and public interventions.

Especially in an emergent disease setting.

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Yep his anti Vax interjections during a measles outbreak on American Samoa contributed to a failed emergency immunization programme and 83 deaths (74 of whom were children).