GLP-1 medications for weight-loss: a triumph of marketing over patient care GLP-1 weight loss drugs are receiving an avalanche of positive press. From major media outlets to trade publications, clinical, policy, and lay audiences have been inundated with articles declaring...

GLP-1 medications for weight-loss: a triumph of marketing over patient care

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@ragenchastain.bsky.social, Angela Meadows & Louise Adams

#Obesity #CDoH #COI #CorporatePlaybook #WebOfInfluence

Galling to see the GamblingCare ads on TG4 around the GAA matches this afternoon

Gambling Care is funded by the Gambling Awareness Trust (wholly funded by donations from the online & retail betting & gaming industry in Ireland) 🙈

#COI #CDoH #Gambling #CausesOfTheCauses #CorporatePlaybook

Medicines and advertising regulators examine Ozempic maker's Irish ads It’s illegal to advertise prescription drugs. Novo Nordisk, which makes Ozempic and Wegovy, has not named any drugs in its ads.

And this said "disease awareness campaign" is running again... just heard the radio ad

We really need to tighten up regulation (& definitely not have self-regulation!) of such industry-driven marketing campaigns (tactics)

www.thejournal.ie/novo-nordisk...

#COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #Obesity

"Experts on Stage" both days of the Fair features a Nutritionist from Danone 😒

#Marketing #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #InfantFeeding #Pregnancy #AtWhatCost

Baby show urged to rethink sponsor Academics and the HSE’s National Breastfeeding Coordinator have written to the organisers of the country’s biggest pregnancy and baby show asking them to reconsider its choice of sponsor.

When did it become okay again for commercial milk formula companies to be involved in the Pregnancy and Baby Fair here? 😒

Cow & Gate sponsoring 2026 awards pregnancyandbabyfair.com/awards/

Our 2018 letter: www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30...

#COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #InfantFeeding

Alcohol Forum Ireland has produced a new short new video exposing the predatory tactics of the alcohol industry - worth watching & sharing (good for teaching too!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=911_...

#COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #Alcohol #WomensRights #PublicHealth

@paulaleonard.bsky.social

Accenture, employer of thousands in Ireland, abandons diversity measures after Trump orders The global company, which has its headquarters in Dublin, is reacting to executive orders signed by Trump

Accenture, employer of thousands in Ireland, abandons diversity measures after Trump orders (Feb 2025)

www.thejournal.ie/accenture-en...

#CorporatePlaybook #COI #CDoH

Pre-Budget Submissions 2025

Good to see sample of Pre-Budget Submissions 2025 received by Dept of Finance published online - it would be great if all submissions were made publicly available

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

#COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #Framing (e.g. see Vape Business Ireland)

Obesity Masterclass - NIPC - National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health

"This masterclass is sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly...(with disclaimer)"

Disclosure is not enough

Independent CPD needed

#COI #CDoH #Obesity #WebOfInfluence #CorporatePlaybook

nipc.ie/obesity-mast...

It's workplace wellbeing day (industry initiative)

Yes to workplace health promotion

No to lifestyle drift & veiled marketing initiatives (yes, I've just seen details of the Diageo-sponsored fertility @ work event in Ireland happening today)

#COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #Healthism #JoinAUnion

A future vision for adult immunisation - Medical Independent A new position paper outlines the need for a strategic approach to adult immunisation. Pat Kelly reports. A position paper was...

Conflicts of interest in the Irish health system abound

"The paper was prepared by EY Ireland for GSK..."

#COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #RevolvingDoors

www.medicalindependent.ie/in-the-news/...

Is Ozempic a threat to Ireland's €18bn dairy industry? With dietary drugs on the rise and the food industry already seeing their effects, Irish dairy is assessing the impact they might have

What a load of...

Though perhaps to be expected from the dairy industry, & Bord Bia... media shouldn't be giving this any kind of platform

#COI #CDoH #Obesity #Nutrition #CorporatePlaybook #Framing

www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...

Great to have the opportunity to remotely join 'Commercial Determinants of Health Inequalities - a public lecture' by Prof @franbaum.bsky.social @ Lancaster University this lunchtime

A masterclass!

#CDoH #Oligarchies #CorporatePower #CorporatePlaybook #Financialisation #TaxAvoidance #Inequity

#CDoH #COI #Obesity #Pharma #CorporatePlaybook

Coca-Cola Thank You Fund 2025 - Irish Youth Foundation We are delighted to confirm that this fund is now open for applications until Wednesday 26th March 2025 at 11.59pm.

Really disappointing to see this partnership between the Irish Youth Foundation & Coca Cola continue (& I appreciate the struggle for funding in this sector) 😔

#COI #CDoH #CSR #CorporatePlaybook

iyf.ie/coca-cola-th...

#COI #Obesity #Pharma #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #WebOfInfluence

MSD Social Impacts Prog-"designed to support innovative, non-profit orgs that work to expand access to quality healthcare via community-based solutions that reach poplns which may be historically underserved by the healthcare system" 😒

#CSR #COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook

www.msd.com/wp-content/u...

ILSI is a Food Industry Lobby Group Documents reveal how the International Life Sciences Institute advances food industry interests, not public health

'International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a food industry lobby group' via @usrighttoknow.bsky.social (2023)

Would be interested to know if anyone has conducted more recent research on ILSI's activities & influence

#CDoH #COI #CorporatePlaybook

usrtk.org/pesticides/i...

Corporations showing their true colours, who would have guessed...

[Also, will they be looking for their 'Women on Walls' back now? 'We' should never have fallen for that BS in the first place]

#CorporatePlaybook #CDoH #COI

Involving national stakeholders in a systems approach to map drivers of childhood obesity and actions to prevent childhood obesity in Denmark: the Generation Healthy Kids Study - Health Research Polic... Background Childhood obesity is a preventable global public health challenge, increasingly recognized as a complex problem, stemming from complex drivers. Obesity is characterized by multiple interdep...

Yet another Novo-funded study 😩

Public health continues to legitimise partnerships with pharma in the area of obesity

Business as usual - let's just ignore the evidence & look the other way

#COI #CDoH #CorporatePlaybook #WebOfInfluence

health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’ Researchers say companies have prolonged injustice and exaggerated cost of solving infrastructure problems

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Well what d'you know? We've been played using the same cynical tactics from the #CorporatePlaybook. Water, oil, cars... how much more evidence is needed that the greatest threat to #civilisation is #CorporateGreed? @yorkshirewater.bsky.social we call you out.

The digital cage has no bars. But every keystroke tells a story. #ExposedBook reveals how your work tools become weapons

#ExposedBook #CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed

Those workplace wellness programs? There's a dark side no one's talking about. Yet.

#ExposedBook #CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed

The perfect employee trap isn't about what you do wrong. It's about what you do right.

#ExposedBook #CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed

Ever wonder why HR takes such detailed notes during your 'casual' conversations? You're about to find out. #ExposedBook

#ExposedBook #CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed

'Voluntary compliance' - Two words that will change how you see every workplace policy. #ExposedBook reveals what's really behind the smile.

#CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed

Remote work isn't just about flexibility. It's about control. The digital paper trail tells all.

#ExposedBook #CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed

'Delete nothing. Record everything.' - How one woman's meticulous documentation uncovered a pattern that will shake corporate America.

#ExposedBook #CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed

They thought no one was watching. They thought no one was keeping records. They were wrong.

#ExposedBook #CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed

What if everything you know about corporate America is by design? #ExposedBook coming soon. The truth has receipts.

#ExposedBook #CorporateSecrets #CorporateTruth #CorporatePlaybook #CorporateAmerica #WorkplaceTruth #ThePlaybook #CorporateExposed