Public health is about keeping all of us safe and healthy, but it's been neglected for decades. If we fail to invest in public health, we're condemning ourselves—and our children—to preventable illness, injury, disability, and death.

Our letter in ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ today highlighting the importance of evidence base in psychiatry when treating mental illness Glad to see ⁦Prof Miranda Wolpert⁩ also responded. ⁦Professor Tamsin Ford 💙⁩ ⁦Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)⁩

As hair transplants become big business, here’s what you need to know about the risks theconversation.com/as-hair-transp… via Professor Adam Taylor

Waking up with a bang? It could be ‘exploding head syndrome’ theconversation.com/waking-up-with… via University of York 's #DanDenis

🎉 Our team has published yet another paper on real-world better implementation of cardiology clinical guidelines using an MDT innovative approach. Our post MI MDT virtual reviews enhanced appropriate uptake of extended DAPT Full paper 👇 frontiersin.org/journals/cardi… #CardioTwitter

“Is Ketamine An Effective Treatment For Depression?“ gidmk.medium.com/is-ketamine-an… via Health Nerd

Big practices perform: - no better on clinical quality measures like QOF - worse on patient experience - worse on access - worse on staff turnover - worse on continuity Worse continuity = worse prescribing, more unplanned hospitalisations & higher health service costs

Institutional murder. Not suicide.

Long delays in NHS England care causing serious damage to children’s health across UK: Paediatricians warn of ‘life-long consequences’ after ‘shocking’ findings of their professional body RCPCH theguardian.com/society/articl… via Denis Campbell

Great initiative from Dr Matt Kneale! GMC is trying to bury its consultation on physicians’ assistants. Let’s shame Charlie Massey by requesting our responses & independently reconstituting the consultation. The link in Matt’s email takes only 30sec to request your submission.

Eight former CDC directors: Hollowing out the CDC is a prescription for disaster. The agency’s ‘core mission’ isn’t infectious disease, it’s the nation’s health statnews.com/2024/09/05/cdc… via Dr. Tom Frieden et al

Why we need a revolution in clinical research via Masud Husain academic.oup.com/brain/article/…

The spinal tap for MS diagnosis is dying. This study found the "central vein sign" (veins in the center of MS plaques on MRI) is just as accurate. Authors include Daniel Ontaneda Peter Calabresi pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39234802/

Performance of polygenic risk scores in screening, prediction, and risk stratification: secondary analysis of data in the Polygenic Score Catalog" bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/2/1/e0… via Aroon Hingorani et al

The misbegotten belief that common conditions can be treated commonly, ignores the substantial risk that common conditions can often mask, or even erupt, into uncommon conditions with exceptional consequences. myemail-api.constantcontact.com/Breath.html?so… via Roy Lilley 💙

Common food dye tartrazine found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent theguardian.com/science/articl… via Ian Sample

‘The challenges facing nurse education must be tackled’ nursingtimes.net/opinion/the-ch… via Steve Ford Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse

Viral Hepatitis: Host Immune Interaction, Pathogenesis and New Therapeutic Strategies mdpi.com/2076-0817/13/9… via Francesco Branda et al

Debunking Popular Psychology Myths: The Bystander Effect open.substack.com/pub/powerofus/… via Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel, PhD

Spotting Risk: Cardiac Screening Essentials in Athletes medscape.com/viewarticle/sp… via Jonathan Kim, MD, MSc, FACC