The Effects of Diagnosing a Young Adult with a Mental Illness: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Doctors papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… via Marieke Bos et al

Pupils in England ‘facing worst exam results in decades’ after Covid closures theguardian.com/education/2024… via Richard Adams

I know why so many women like me smoke: More middle-class women under 45 have taken up cigarettes than any other group, a new UCL study has found. Lucy Denyer was one of them thetimes.co.uk/article/smokin…

Men building gender equality: A guide to XY's content xyonline.net/content/men-bu… via Professor Michael Flood

These attitudes and beliefs are shocking - we to examine the systems of recruitment, education & training in midwifery that has normalised thinking like this.

1/ Evidence from the recently posted #H5N1 genomes that there was a single introduction and subsequent cow-to-cow transmission.

#HilaryCass Review author condemns ‘misinformation’ spread by trans lawyer Alejandra Caraballo
thetimes.co.uk/article/cass-a… via James Beal

'They Saw a Protest': Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speechconduct Distinction jstor.org/stable/41511108 via Donald Braman et al

Beyond the traditional: Extending academic libraries’ roles in research integrity based on the causes of research misconduct sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Sue Lacey Bryant FCLIP

Development and validation of an automated computational approach to grade immune effector cell-associated hematotoxicity nature.com/articles/s4140… via Kai Rejeski et al

I think time to deterioration (TTD) is a reasonable QOL metric.

It is the PRO version of PFS/local control in my mind & also incorporates treatment toxicity/burden – i.e. aims to measure when a patient’s disease progression or side effects from therapy worsens their well-being

It's clearer than ever that #Brexit has failed: let’s not inflict its miseries on young people via @[email protected] theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Absolutely *must must must* read pieces here ht Frank Harrell on bad biomarker research, and the burden of demonstrating heterogeneity of treatment effect and deviating from assuming the avg treatment effect applies to every patient

fharrell.com/post/demohte/

hbiostat.org/blog/post/badb/

Systematic Evaluation of Machine Learning–Based Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… via Nils Winter et al

Response in The BMJ from Louella Vaughan and I in response to Prof Colin R Melville defence of @GMCuk 'vision' for medical education and training

bmj.com/content/384/bm…

How Did We Get Here? The Progression From Frame-Based to Frameless Intracranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery journals.lww.com/amjclinicalonc… via Shearwood McClelland III, M.D.

Can virtual reality enhance the patient experience during awake invasive procedures? A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37870233/ via rajesh sivaprakasam et al

The HYPE around biomarkers in academic medicine is really something to behold, with a section at #ESTRO24 devoted to this

Personalized/Precision Medicine guided by biomarkers is largely based on false promises; what we are really getting is Personalized Capitalism

Impact of GLP-1 Agonists and SGLT-2 Inhibitors on Diabetic Retinopathy Progression: An Aggregated Electronic Health Record Data Study ajo.com/article/S0002-… via Karen Wai et al Robin Conibere Ted Kyle

Sick notes and a UK national illness service bmj.com/content/385/bm… via Dr Helen Salisbury