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Ola Howell @olahowell.bsky.social · 14d

Happy World Pharmacist Day 💊

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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 14d

An absolute goldmine of health and mortality data 📊

Well done to all involved in this.

Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 14d

New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...

Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report

An overview of the health of England’s population, including trends over time and geographical variation.

www.gov.uk

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 21d

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

on.ft.com

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The Pharmaceutical Journal @pharmaj.bsky.social · 21d

Analysis of exclusive data by #ThePJ has revealed that one in four #NHS trusts and health boards does not offer protected time as part of job plans for pharmacists.

Here, #SophieWillis investigates whether or not trusts are preventing pharmacists from progressing in their careers

Is a lack of protected learning time holding back hospital pharmacists’ career development?

“Protected learning time is essential for pharmacists to keep their skills up to date and deliver the best care for patients,” says Claire Anderson, president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society…

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Ola Howell @olahowell.bsky.social · 21d

Of 46 proven cases of sexual misconduct from one year (Aug ‘23-Aug ‘24):

ALL perpetrators were male doctors and over 80% held a position of authority.

Another example from 2025: 12-month practice suspension for proven rape because it was deemed a “one-off event”.

Is this for real?! 🤯

UK doctors guilty of sexual misconduct are not being struck off, research finds

Analysis reveals 24% of guilty doctors handed suspensions but are allowed to keep working in medicine

www.theguardian.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21d

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs.

“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”

worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine

Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.

worksinprogress.co

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22d

A groundbreaking paper published @nature.com today—the first large health language model—predicts >1,000 diseases for a person and when.
Implications here:
erictopol.substack.com/p/dawn-of-a-...

Dawn of A New Era of Primary Prevention in Medicine

Recent groundbreaking reports highlight our newfound potential to prevent diseases

erictopol.substack.com

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 22d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 23d

The moment of a Russian UAV strike on Kharkiv today. The Russians hit the building of the National University of Pharmacy.

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South West Pharmacy Research Network @swpharmres.bsky.social · 23d

Come and join us at our 2025 Innovation day in Bristol! You can expect...
👑 Top class speakers
🥳 Networking opportunities
🖼️ Poster sessions
🛠️ Workshops
🍱 Lunch!!!
See our full speaker line up and book your free place now www.bath.ac.uk/events/south...

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Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 23d

Our new research published today sets out the valuable lessons we can learn from other countries' efforts to shift care from hospital to community.

@sjanereed.bsky.social spoke to @financialtimes.com about Ireland's reform plans. 👇

Can Ireland’s ‘Sláintecare’ be a model for community care in the UK?

Irish government’s push to reduce hospital admissions drives down treatment waiting lists

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Ola Howell @olahowell.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excellent, insightful write up on the issues surrounding learning difficulties and ADHD diagnoses, and more. Thank you @bennewmark.bsky.social for sharing your experience and perspective. I very much enjoyed reading this and learned a lot.

And thanks @sarahjpharm.pharmsky.app for sharing the post💚

Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · Sep 3

New from me.
The Dangers of Diagnosis.
bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/t...

The dangers of diagnosis

Two years ago, at a conference I described the process my wife and I went through to get our daughter her EHCP. I used a phrase familiar to those of us with children who find life harder and need m…

bennewmark.wordpress.com

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Sep 2

An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.

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Ola Howell @olahowell.bsky.social · Sep 2

Amazing woman and the co-founder of the University I graduated from 🤓

The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wilhelmina Iwanowska, the astrophysicist who co-founded Nicolaus Copernicus University and through it played a major role in establishing astrophysics as a field of advanced study in Poland, was born 120 years ago today. She was head of the Torun Observatory for 24 years.

#WomenInSTEM #AstroSky 🔭

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Sep 2

Doctors and drug developers who first saw scans from a new targeted form of radiotherapy were amazed. For some patients in the clinical trial, Novartis’ radioligand therapy had — in just six months — completely cleared cancer that had spread around their bodies. on.ft.com/462deTZ

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Ola Howell @olahowell.bsky.social · Sep 2

Farewell 👋 and please PLEASE take your friends with you to this new milk and honey land 🫠

“…Russia’s “traditional values” were a natural draw for people, and a reason he chose to stay — as well as feeling freer in Russia to air his views.” 🤡

The Americans moving to wartime Russia for ‘traditional values’

Moscow promotes visa scheme aimed at those disaffected by western society

on.ft.com

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Sep 2

A very important caveat to the "AI stethoscope" that was completely ignored by many news outlets.

Yet a high false positive rate can make a screening tool more harmful than useful.

How can we encourage health journalists to be more critical of AI press releases?

Cc @mgtmccartney.bsky.social

Euronews @euronews.com · Sep 1

About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.

AI stethoscope can detect heart issues in 15 seconds, UK doctors find

About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.

l.euronews.com

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · Sep 2

*stares in academia*

Thaddeodrome 📼🥵🤯😵 @thaddeus.zone · Aug 28

this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time

excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other

screenshot of a paragraph from op's linked article

Claudy pointed to what he calls the “passion tax.” Game workers, he said, often get paid less than their tech industry counterparts because they’re passionate about what they do, and passion can be taken advantage of. Microsoft is a tech company, making discrepancies all the more arbitrary.

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer:

-Australia by 2028
-Sweden by 2027
-Rwanda by 2030
-UK by 2040
-Indonesia by 2030
-Bhutan 2030
-El Salvador by 2030
-Canada by 2040

How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban.

You will note USA is not on this list.

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Ola Howell @olahowell.bsky.social · Sep 1

Forwarding this week’s motivation, sent to me by my husband. Apparently I had sent it to him 4 years ago (and it worked). You’re welcome

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Paulb @paulb3964.bsky.social · Aug 26

@rpharms.com is holding “strategy engagement events” as part of its preparation to transition into a Royal College. There will be events for members, students, public and Pharmaceutical scientists

Details in link below (as well as a comprehensive faq)

#PharmSky

www.rpharms.com/royalcollege

Royal College of Pharmacy

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is changing to become the Royal College of Pharmacy.

www.rpharms.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 1

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Jul 18

NEW:

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment.

I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged:

Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.

www.ft.com/content/a9ea...

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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · Aug 31

I guess this is what we're going to have to get used to...

NHS Worker (and British citizen of Filipino origin) with 15 years of service abused whilst walking with her family in W Yorkshire. She's leaving the country and I'm sorry.

The tone from the top is always heard at the bottom.

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