Even an NHS programme architect says we must divert precious resources to other priorities, as screening doesn't increase life or cut mastectomies. Breast Cancer Now Vinay Prasad MD MPH HealthSense Sense about Science Consilium Scientific /2 bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Whether small time, or even small money, it must be wrong & unkind to offer pseudoscience to NHS patients using taxpayer's money Vinay Prasad MD MPH Professor Stephen Powis David Gorski, MD, PhD HealthSense Consilium Scientific ScienceBasedMed Andy Good Thinking NB preprint medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

US women are at risk from cancer screening policy based on modelling studies, says The BMJ editorial: "The modelling reported a more favourable benefit to harm ratio for all population groups than the trial evidence" bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Thanks HealthSense for covering our blog on why patients demand a Sunshine Act for the UK and why the Government must put transparency at the heart of healthcare healthsense-uk.org/publications/n…

Thank YOU Sling the Mesh for your courage and persistence and clear writing. Hidden financial incentives get in the way of patients from receiving best care. We support mandatory declaration of industry payments to Drs as called for by Julia Cumberlege

Thanks Vera Wilde for the shout out. Great review of Welch et al's Overdiagnosis book. You might enjoy our blog about the bad ethics in a vast study trying to extend mammo screens to younger and older women in England: healthsense-uk.org/projects/agex-…

Online now - from the UK's longest-standing independent charity for evidence and integrity in health care - new HealthSense Newsletter covers pseudoscience in the NHS; Sling the Mesh on vested interests; evidence and gender; truth drugs in politics healthsense-uk.org/publications/n…

👏👏👏👏👏 Congratulations Patricia Murray, for this well deserved award from HealthSense for your courage, persistence and integrity. #research #misconduct #whistleblower #AcademicTwitter

Ouch! The RoyalCollegeObsGyn are not answering HealthSense questions about why they promote costly vitamin supplements. Why might that be? /1 Edzard Ernst Sense about Science Good Thinking Margaret McCartney Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche healthsense-uk.org/publications/n…

A year ago HealthSense asked @RCOG to explain why they were promote costly pregnancy multivitamins on their website. They didn't respond & continue to devote a page to "Bassetts Vitamins Pregnancy" (with the note "paid partnership"), & links to the manufacturer's website /2

Professor Patricia Murray (Patricia Murray) has been awarded the 2024 Health Sense Award for her work into exposing research misconduct in the field of regenerative medicine: bit.ly/3SrCcGv #regenerativemedicine | #TeamLivUni

Read, please! A serious & solution focused article about publication ethics & biases. Can we improve COPE to do better? Of course! HealthSense Sense about Science Consilium Scientific Lucy Chappell Kamran Abbasi Andrew H Shennan OBE Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche nature.com/articles/d4158…

Women injured in vaginal #mesh implant scandal set to receive payout from industry giants - first successful product liability case in England dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

📌Pelvic #mesh was aggressively marketed using flimsy evidence & pushed by key opinion leaders ☀️UK Sunshine Payment Act needed NOW to uncover payments from industry to Drs researchers, lobbyists 📌Industry £ influence is #patientsafety issue #mesh legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/…

Robert Howard Harriet Vogt Duncan Double David Dr Joanna Moncrieff Consilium Scientific HealthSense Kamran Abbasi Ben Goldacre Margaret McCartney Ash Paul Lade Smith CBE RCPsych Addictions Faculty Royal College of Psychiatrists Old Age Psychiatry 🌈 .... blog says "there is longstanding evidence that exposure to industry promotional activity can lead to doctors recommending worse treatments for patients". So it matters in medicine (as everywhere else) who pays who & who marks the homework. Patients care! Sling the Mesh /2

For seven years, we at @meshcampaign & others have lobbied for statutory transparency on the payments made by drug & device companies to the healthcare sector. Read our article for HealthSense-healthsense-uk.org/publications/n… Such payments were a key factor in the mesh scandal 1/3..

Why dont BBC Health News journalists ask the Q: Does it work? A: No HealthSense Consilium Scientific Hugh Pym BBC More or Less not general health checks or workplace ones /1

Who's going to take on all the outlets who are telling LIES about checks that we know (with high degree of certainty) do NOT save lives, but waste money creating anxious patients & blaming individuals for misfortune The Standard The Sun Manchester News

Can this kit really stop cancer before it starts?? That's an astonishing claim. One for you HealthSense. (Possibly Duncan Burton might also like to check what NHSLDN is saying.)

New USPSTF recc to screen women from age 40 "prevents few additional breast cancer deaths and adds substantial harms and costs". JAMA Internal Medicine article calls for women to be equipped to decide themselves whether or not to be screened. SO DO WE jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…