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Actual advocacy for affordable insulin list prices (not just lower copays for the insured). Fewer “donations” from insulin makers that price insulin we need to survive at $300/vial. In sum, stop repping Phrma while turning a blind eye to patients’ unnecessary suffering.

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#MedTwitter, help me settle a debate: is this is a clinical trial? 1) You invite all patients with episodic migraine who come to your clinic to participate. 2) They choose which of two experimental treatments to take, open label. 3) You assess headache frequency before and after.

Do surgeons have worse outcomes when they operate on their birthday? Our The BMJ X-mas study, led by Hiro Kato & @ytsugawa1 We analyzed 1M surgeries, linked to surgeon & surgeon's birthday We found higher mortality for surgeries performed on a surgeons bday Thread

She is the face we kiss during practice for CPR, but do we ever stop and wonder about the story behind this face? This #ChristmasBMJ article looks at how this history takes us back to 19th century Paris when the body of a girl was pulled from the Seine ow.ly/QK3250CIcZ4

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"Alarms were raised early on about the mix of sheer volume and unprecedented speed." Jocalyn Clark writes how the pandemic turbocharged scientific publishing and if the harms of pandemic publishing have been overlooked. bmj.com/content/380/bm…

Time to bring out last years The BMJ Xmas paper "On the 12th Day of Christmas, a Statistician Sent to Me..." --> tinyurl.com/mrxah6rr We want to help you "publish the gold not the mould, the frankincense not the makes-no-sense, and the myrrh not the urrgghh"

Our new policy for research published by The BMJ requires authors to share analytic codes from all studies and data from all trials, Elizabeth Loder, MD, MPH, Helen Macdonald, Theodora Bloom, Kamran Abbasi

Progress on the Chatbot Assessment Reporting Tool - #CHART! Panel Consensus 2/3 co-chaired with Gordon Guyatt Pictured: our global, multi-d expert panel - apologies to those missed #MedTwitter #AI Julio Mayol Tim Feeney Elizabeth Loder, MD, MPH Annette Flanagin Dr Riaz Agha Stavros Antoniou Gary Collins Nan Liu, Duke-NUS

1/9 Rachel Amdur and I comment in The BMJ on a new trial of surgical face masks. bmj.com/content/386/bm…

One dose of modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) smallpox vaccine is moderately effective in preventing mpox infection and should be made available to communities at risk, finds a study published by The BMJ today. Link: bit.ly/3XpuCxA

Different US states have evolved different approaches to gun control, setting up something akin to a natural experiment. Louis Klarevas looks at the evidence so far and says the emerging lesson is that gun control seems to save lives, says bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Some triptans are a more effective treatment for acute migraines than newer, more expensive drugs, finds an analysis of the latest evidence Andrea Cipriani Includes a visual abstract #BMJInfographic bmj.com/content/386/bm…