Weight-loss drugs: is social media promotion to teenagers still a problem? In 2022, The Pharmaceutical Journal investigated the promotion of diet pills to a fictional 16-year-old girl on the social media platform TikTok. Results of the investigation revealed that, as of…

*Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance?*

Here, #MargaretMcCartney & #DeborahCohen investigate the world of back pain treatment, following disputes over claims that antibiotics can help

#backpain #AMR #antibiotics #ukhealthcare

Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance? It was billed as a treatment worthy of a Nobel prize. In 2013, two studies purportedly showing the effectiveness of oral antibiotics in treating back pain were published in the European Spine…

*Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance?*

Here, #MargaretMcCartney & #DeborahCohen investigate the contentious world of back pain treatment

#backpain #AMR #antibiotics #ukhealthcare #chronicpain

Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance? It was billed as a treatment worthy of a Nobel prize. In 2013, two studies purportedly showing the effectiveness of oral antibiotics in treating back pain were published in the European Spine…

*Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance?*

Here, #MargaretMcCartney & #DeborahCohen investigate the world of back pain treatment, following disputes over claims that antibiotics can help

#backpain #AMR #antibiotics #ukhealthcare

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Our Future Health: consent, clinical risk, and industry issues plague the UK’s biggest ever health research programme The UK’s flagship health research programme promises breakthroughs, but beneath an NHS branded facade, critics are asking who really benefits from this vast database, heavily backed by industry and go...

Must read in @bmj.com from @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and #deborahcohen on research/clinical care/screening confusion
www.bmj.com/content/390/...