I wish I was staying longer IPCRG - the friendliest conference by far.

Great discussions last night on #cardiopulmonaryrisk in #COPD , chaired by Hanna Sandelowsky, with Ann Hutchinson and Peter Lin, MD CCFP.

Best wishes to all for the rest of the conference!

#actonCOPD

Do consider coming along - a virtual, public lecture on...

'AI, Smartphones and Lung Health: Breathless with Excitement'

UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences - UCL – University College London

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📢 Attention all early and mid-career researchers! The wait is finally over!

🗓️Applications are open for our 7th Implementation Science School. Join us to enhance your skills in implementation science and NCDs in LMICs.

Don't miss out! Apply now👉: bit.ly/ISS24applicati…

'Pulmonary rehabilitation delivered posthospital discharge for exacerbation of COPD results in a reduction in hospital re-admissions and improvements in exercise capacity, health-related quality of life and dyspnoea' thorax.bmj.com/content/79/5/4…
@AJ_COPD

😱- access to spirometry is a lottery.

People living with #alpha1 can develop a skin problem called #panniculitis . In partnership with one of our patients we’re running a survey for people affected to understand their experience of care. If you can, please share🙏

Alpha-1 Foundation Alice Turner

surveymonkey.com/r/Alpha1pannic…

One of the best things about being an academic is seeing bright, enthusiastic and hard working early career researchers grow and develop into talented colleagues. Well done Malik. Thank you for choosing UCL and for teaching me so much about ILD and remote monitoring.

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This is big news: QRISK4 now includes #COPD reflecting the increased CV risk seen in COPD over and above that due to shared risk factors.

This is big news, and I’m really pleased to see such a large majority of MPs on the right side of history,

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MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

🇧🇷🇬🇧 -we are hiring a biostatistician to support my group UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences in our collaboration with Renata Mendes' team UFSCar #UniversidadeEuDefendo.

We are interested in chronic respiratory multimorbidity.

The work is NIHR Global Health funded.

Apply!

Research Fellow at UCL: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA804/res…

Watch Dr Michael Collins UCL History in conversation with SI-UK India as he discusses the importance of UK-India partnership in higher education and offers tips for Indian students studying in London and the UK 🎓

#UCLandIndia 🇮🇳 UK in India🇬🇧🇮🇳 UCL Global Engagement

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🧵 We are NOW RECRUITING people for our Lived Experience Panel, where you can inform the design, governance, and delivery of our project on COPD. Interested? Please email [email protected] [3 of 3]

😱 😱 😱
Thing submitted by me.
Response: don’t do it like that.
Thing resubmitted by me.
Response: don’t do it like that either.
So, I ask, politely, how DO I do it?
Response: it’s not for us to tell you how to do the thing.
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Third time's a charm? 🏆

Team UCL has made it to the final of University Challenge for the third time in history and will compete against @ImperialCollege.

Tune in at 8:30pm on @bbctwo and @bbciplayer
to see who takes home the crown 📺

#UniversityChallenge #UCLFingersOnBuzzers

🔥🔥FEV1 quotient (FEV1Q) 🫁

✅First percentile that represents a value below which survival is unlikely (400 ml in women and 500 ml in men, regardless of age >50 y).

✅New approach: express lung function as multiples of FEV1Q

▶️bit.ly/43P2aIv

John Hurst

Utterly astonishing that Medscape would take money from Big Tobacco for health education on - checks notes - diseases they themselves are causing. Whatever next?

Shame on you.
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There are many challenges to better #COPD care in LMICs from diagnosis through to accessing affordable interventions. Biomarkers might assist and huge shout out to Patricia Alupo for leading this work on neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio to predict severe exacerbations. Take that eos!

🆕 A novel 🫁➡️🧠 mechanism signalling infection and determining host response outwith immunology.

Do we need to target neuronal pathways in chronic 🫁 disease?

Biofilm exopolysaccharides alter sensory-neuron-mediated sickness during lung infection: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…