🇺🇸 Gynaecologist & pro-mesh key opinion leader has taken more than £1.6 million from industry since 2016. Imagine if we could see how much money 🇬🇧 Drs take from industry! This is why we need a Sunshine Act for the UK Carl Heneghan Margaret McCartney openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/30143

This Thursday - Margaret McCartney at Consilium! Sign up here mailchi.mp/consilium-scie… HealthSense Eric Low John A Hickman Susan Bewley Aaron Mitchell Kevin Knopf Martin Kaiser The BMJ Kim Witczak 💜 Richard Lehman

This. Is. Not. Good. HealthSense Consilium Scientific Sense about Science Royal College of Psychiatrists Royal College of PsychiatristsAddFac Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche madinamerica.com/2024/03/medica…

Real-life harms of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and some solutions: read our report on last year's Preventing Overdiagnosis conference: healthsense-uk.org/publications/n… #overdiagnosis

If you missed an excellent talk by Adriane Fugh-Berman PharmedOut on how Industry invents diseases, watch here youtu.be/hRNK-BMX7s8?si… Kim Witczak 💜 Susan Bewley Kevin Knopf Lawrence Lynn, DO KFF Health News HealthSense Margaret McCartney RIOT Science Club

We'll be there to meet Margaret McCartney our brilliant 2008 HealthSense Award winner, broadcaster, and advocate for good evidence in general practice and screening and generally a speaker of huge common sense in everything to do with health

Coming soon Margaret McCartney at Consilium! Sign up here mailchi.mp/consilium-scie… HealthSense Eric Low John A Hickman Susan Bewley Aaron Mitchell Kevin Knopf Martin Kaiser The BMJ Kim Witczak 💜 Iva Parvanova Arianna Gentilini LSE Health Policy

'It’s hard to imagine a reasonable justification for cutting off a baby’s continuing blood supply—yet this is normalised on television' writes Susan Bewley in The BMJ about harmful practices featured in BBC 'Call the Midwife' bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Ash Paul Jenna Smith Michael Baum Paul Pharoah (R soul) 🇪🇺🇵🇬🇿🇦🇬🇧 Steven Laitner alf collins Alexandra Freeman 'This study is an important first step in improving messaging provided by national cancer screening providers direct to older adults.' Shame NHS still doesn't give balanced information to ALL women women Harding Center hardingcenter.de/en/transfer-an…

Prof Susan Bewley & Amanda Burleigh have renewed the call for safety warnings in BBC’s Call the Midwife.

The authors fear the normalisation of cutting off a baby's continuing blood supply could wrongly influence the public.

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Past HealthSense chair Susan Bewley calls for safety warnings after BBC Call the Midwife depicts potentially harmful practice with newborns kcl.ac.uk/news/bmj-lette…

HealthSense @ Maybe it could have been even clearer: I can't see how its right for anyone to have this privilege of marking their own homework. Sense about Science Consilium Scientific NICE Margaret McCartney ABPI

Tune in to the Trials with Maya Z. and Leeza Osipenko from Consilium Scientific here: share.transistor.fm/s/739149dc Francois Maignen Eric Low John A Hickman Kevin Knopf Rita Kessler TranspariMED LSE Health Policy HealthSense Andrew Dillon Jack Scannell Anticancer Fund

Last Word talking about the late, great, fantastic Caroline Richmond - BBC Sounds with John Illman

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BBC Radio 4's 'Last Word' 2 Feb remembered feisty, determined Caroline Richmond. In it, HealthSense trustee John Illman recalled her famous 'allergy to bright clothing' spoof that kick-started our charity: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… listen from 08:22 to 14:28

Breast Cancer Now Infirmed decisions by women about accepting breast cancer screening, or not, need to be supported with information on the limitations of the screening programme, as documented by charity HealthSense (under its old name). Please read this: healthsense-uk.org/projects/agex-…

A new HealthSense Newsletter is online now! Read about our prize winning students and Award winner; #overdiagnosis conference report; and personal farewells to our founder members Caroline Richard and Vincent Marks who died recently healthsense-uk.org/publications/n…

A new HealthSense Newsletter is online now! Read about our prize winning students and Award winner; #overdiagnosis conference report; and personal farewells to our founder members Caroline Richard and Vincent Marks who died recently healthsense-uk.org/publications/n…

If you are interested in the way politicians try and influence the decisions that NICE takes about what drugs to approve, and what general practice does, and how evidence is regarded. please do read this. (I cannot tell you how many hours this took. What we found was shocking.)

Congratulations Shavez!