David Tennant on how vital the NHS is. Keep Private Healthcare out.

If you're a researcher who cares about/works on sex differences & gender influences in science, please add your papers to MESSAGE (Medical Science Sex & Gender Equity) 's burgeoning Resource Library! We want to promote best examples in this space across disciplines to inspire and inform. messageproject.co.uk/resources-requ…

Wholehearted recommendation for ⁦⁦⁦Dr Rachel Clarke⁩ ‘s latest. “Telling this true story with dramatic pace, medical precision and characteristic warmth, The Story of a Heart is Rachel Clarke’s finest book yet.” My review in ⁦⁦⁦Financial Times⁩ ft.com/content/599798…

What should but probably won't change is the widespread idea in the UK that regulation is bad, costly, and shouldn't really happen. We need a new conversation about what regulations, how designed, then implemented. That recognises this as THE key function of government.

Scientists at Imperial, Karolinska Institutet and MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (MRC LMS) have uncovered how hormones affect our immune systems, explaining why diseases can affect men and women differently 🤧 Read more ⬇️ imperial.ac.uk/news/255913/se…

A call to arms to change the ways that universities and NHS organisations work together to support research. My experience is that this can work well if local leadership and academics want to make it work as it does with Noclor NHS Research Office.

The most detailed map ever made of the endometrium, or inner lining of the uterus, could help us better understand endometriosis and infertility. newscientist.com/article/244605…

Black tights, leather boots, courduroy, knit. 🍁

“Telling this true story with dramatic pace, medical precision and characteristic warmth, The Story of a Heart is Rachel Clarke’s finest book yet.” Thank you so much Dr Kate Womersley for this wonderful review. #OrganDonation 🫀🫁💗 ft.com/content/599798…

My friends who have had cancer treatment are particularly pissed off by Macpherson's claims that she followed “an intuitive, heart-led, holistic approach” and was "being authentic", implying people who trust science and doctors are heartless, fake and obtuse dullards.

Male and female immune responses differ, but is this to do with sex chromosomes, hormones or both? This study tracking immune responses in transmen over 12 months of transition finds that innate immune responses are rapidly modulated by sex hormones. 1/ nature.com/articles/s4158…

What struck me powerfully/painfully when reading The Story of A Heart by Dr Rachel Clarke is the perfect fit of organ transplantation and a nationalised health service, but not one which is running out of money. Financial Times ft.com/content/599798…

The RCOG Women’s Network is recruiting new lay members. The Network aims to ensure the experiences of those who receive obstetric and gynaecological care inform and influence the College’s work. (1/3)

Huge news that GMC is going to APPEAL against the extraordinarily lenient 8 month suspension imposed by The MPTS on James Gilbert for over a decade of sexual harassment (& racism). Such respect for Ms A, H, G & E’s courageous open letter. Thank you everyone who signed it 🙏

Clinical research in the UK is wild 😳 What takes months and a dozen emails in Germany can be years, hundreds of emails, and many meetings in the UK. Urgent reform is needed—thanks for calling out this issue so poignantly!

My mum still buys me magazines, and now she does for my daughter too. 💜

This whole case is horrific and this quote speaks so much to how people persevere whilst suffering.

"People with PCOS are four to seven times more likely to have depression and anxiety, three to six times more likely to have an eating disorder, and 8.47 times more likely to attempt suicide." TAKE A MENSTRUAL/REPRO HISTORY PSYCH FOLKS! theguardian.com/wellness/artic…

AND TAKE A PSYCH HISTORY GYNAE/GP/SRH FOLKS!

I don’t agree that anger drives the world, but I’m looking forward to being challenged on that. Hard not to feel more angry as a woman in the world after this week 💔