Wellness influencer really means running experiments on people without ethical oversight or attention to basic principles of research. Let’s get anecdotes!

In a TED interview, Vaughan said that she was often asked, “Why do you do all this?’ to which she replied, “There’s a simple answer: it’s the right thing to do.”

She was never afraid of anyone

Jenny Vaughan | Just Culture for all in healthcare neurologist and medical law campaigner bmj.com/content/385/bm…

The number of new and expectant mothers receiving specialist mental health support has nearly doubled in the last three years, according to a report from ITV News.

Dr Livia Martucci, the incoming Chair of our Perinatal Faculty, said: “There’s huge demand for care and services.…

Thrilled to announce that WHAM CEO & Founder, Carolee Lee, has been named to TIME's inaugural #TIME100Health list, recognizing her as one of The 100 Most Influential People in Global Health. Check out the full list and related tributes: time.com/time100health

what a terrible letter #allaboutme

'Our relations with female artists, co-producers, authors, cast members, members of our creative teams, backstage and front of house theatre staff have all been jeopardised by the recent publicity.'
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Today’s meeting on sex and gender research was excellent! Huge thanks to our organisers (Dorien Kimenai, Dr Kate Womersley, Jenny Regan, Rochefort_lab, Jacqueline Maybin & imagingmedsci) & all speakers: so many interesting talks, spanning such diverse fields!

Can’t get a doctor’s appointment?
There are around 3,000 unemployed GPs today.
Get out and vote.

Great to see adolescent reproductive health high on the agenda at the European congress of sexual and reproductive health. Great presentation by Eveline Roos to an engaged audience #ESCRH2024

Excited to step out of the world of front door medicine and attend the first Sex and Gender Research Meeting at the University of Edinburgh.

Further disparity between ‘physical’ and ‘mental’ health conditions: prescription charges for psychiatric medicines in England.

“An example is in metastatic breast cancer (MBC), where flaws in the way cancer registries are built mean we cannot accurately count the number of people with MBC. Consequently, data is incomplete.” thedrum.com/opinion/2024/0…

Only Matt Hancock could take a subject as ethically fraught & complex as assisted dying and, in all seriousness, insinuate that those who hesitate about changing the law are - what? - on a par with homophobes, Matt?

What on earth does gay marriage have to do with it?

Asinine.

I'm also surprised that not more than half of women chose women.

Calling all Psychiatry docs post CT3. Tell me you CASC secret weapons (books, handouts, hacks, tv shows, confectionery) Laur Rosemary Gordon

Only a couple of weeks to go until THE IMMUNE MIND by Monty Lyman is a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week!
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So…moderate pain only partially relived by OTC analgesia is by far the most common experience of menstrual pain. Which means it’s clearly *pain* and not “discomfort”.

New The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity UCL report 6/9 English regions showed increases in inequalities in life expectancy for women (NE, NW, Yorkshire & Humber, East of England, E Midlands, SW) @UCL bit.ly/LEGAP

May is #MaternalMentalHealthMonth

Tackling inequality in maternal health: Beyond the postpartum

Jane Hirst The George Institute for Global Health Imperial School of Public Health Dr Kate Womersley Dr Katherine Ripullone #IntegratedCare #maternalhealth

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