A study led by VA Connecticut Healthcare Center and #yalepsych researchers reveals ancestries around the world possess a shared genetic architecture for problematic alcohol use (PAU) – habitual heavy drinking, accompanied by harmful consequences. bit.ly/3uLuTAm

Academic clinician–scientists risk becoming an endangered species. World View from stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE) Cambridge University nature.com/articles/s4159…

New research from Cel McCracken Betty Raman Dr Anya Topiwala Masud Husain et al.: NHS Health Check attendance is associated with reduced multiorgan disease risk: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Over the years, through leaving and returning to this platform, I’ve gone from over 5k followers to just 250. Writing for charity isn’t the same as running but this took me over a year to write and donating royalties to Maudsley Charity. It would mean a lot if you could share 🙏🏼.

A study by Veterans Affairs and Yale School of Medicine researchers assesses how the most up-to-date genetic and psychosocial predictors of opioid use disorder compare and combine when predicting the risk of becoming dependent on opioids. bit.ly/492EVMx 나종호 Peter Jongho Na Joseph D. Deak, PhD

Together with Medical Research Council, we are asking medically qualified professionals to share their thoughts on barriers to progression in clinical academia in the UK. Share your thoughts through the survey below 👇

Our DPhil in Healthcare Data Science is now open for applications!🎓💻 📅 Deadline: 1 March 2024 Find out more 👉 buff.ly/3wh3NBN

"Clinician researchers bring together science and the NHS and they are atrophying at a rate of knots." Academy Fellow Sir Stephen O'Rahilly has spoken about the decline of clinician scientists & echoes our calls for enhanced NHS-academia collaboration. ow.ly/AAAq50QGb4E

I’m so happy to be publishing Corinne Low ! Her book applies economics to women’s everyday lives and has already won me so many arguments (lol) and gets an emotional reaction from everyone who reads

Commercially driven efforts to frame alcohol harms have no place in UK health policy development | The BMJ bmj.com/content/385/bm…

We cannot wait any longer for action to be taken to address the issues in clinical academia that we all recognise need fixing. If we delay/continue to ignore the issues, there will no longer be anything left to save…

Fresh from a tour in the U.S., literally every single person in the tour group I spoke to - all #babyboomers -exceeded low risk drinking limits. None were aware of the health risks posed by their drinking behaviour. This data is worrying and unsurprising. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

NEW: Researchers from the Fairfax Group (OxfordOncology) have published a study in Cell Genomics proposing a link between DNA methylation, inflammation and long-term health outcomes. Read more on our website: imm.ox.ac.uk/news/gilchrist…

How does alcohol use 🍷 impact brain changes 🧠 in later life? In older adults, we found very few robust relationships between low level drinking and brain changes over time. BUT heavier drinking was related to poorer white matter integrity. Read more👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

I received a bill today from the GMC for the annual £455 registration fee. Once again, I wonder why I am paying for an organisation that I have no say in how it is run, for which I can’t elect any of its senior officers and which is largely an arm of the government & NHS England.

Such an important message and why dementia biomarkers should only be deployed within a specialist clinical assessment to determine pathological cause of dementia. Can only end in unnecessary tears if used to “screen or test for dementia”.

Whoops! Thanks are for helping me get a Wellcome Trust Career Development Award to study alcohol-related dementia!! Wellcome Big Data Institute Oxford Population Health (OxPop)

Nice write up of our work in The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…