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Ailish Byrne
@akbyrne.bsky.social
PhD candidate 👩‍🎓✨ Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain, Big Data 📈📚NIHR SPCR, views own.
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Highlighting #PainAwarenessMonth2025 with the PACFiND study—transforming care for people living with fibromyalgia. 🌟

PACFiND is developing a patient-centred toolkit for more effective, compassionate fibromyalgia care.

#PainAwarenessMonth #PACFiND #Fibromyalgia
September 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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🩺 Rethinking Fibromyalgia Diagnosis

New preprint shows how a simpler screening question + streamlined symptom thresholds could better identify fibromyalgia.

📄 Read more: ssrn.com/abstract=530...

#Fibromyalgia #ChronicPain #Epidemiology#Diagnosis #Research #Preprint
August 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🔍 Key insights:

• Declining work ability & diagnosis conflict with job roles
• Sickness policies often clash with invisible illness
• Tailored, early support = better outcomes 💡
Empathy & flexibility can help people stay in work — and thrive 💪
#ChronicIllness #WorkplaceInclusion #Fibromyalgia
June 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Fab few days attending & presenting at my first #SAPC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📊
July 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Wonderful talk by @drhassanawan.bsky.social on the healthcare needs of south Asian men. Important points about the need for regard paid to the spiritual and cultural aspects of patients lives.
July 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Have you sought support from your GP or someone at your GP surgery about problem periods? If so, you may be able to take part in this study. #menstrualhealth #primarycare @nihrspcr.bsky.social @katieread.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The ATLANTIS Trial showed that low-dose amitriptyline is a safe, effective, well-tolerated option for second-line management of #IrritableBowelSyndrome (IBS). Watch this new video about the study & why clinicians should consider amitriptyline for second-line management of #IBS.

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Low-Dose Amitriptyline for IBS - Information for Clinicians
The ATLANTIS Trial - an NHS-funded, 6-month long, double-blind, placebo-controlled study - has shown that low-dose amitriptyline is a safe and effective treatment…
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April 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Neural responses suggest we can detect even hyper-realistic faces, though our eyes might deceive us 🧠
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@plosone.org
@yorkpsychology.bsky.social
#UGdissertation
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March 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Lots of opportunities, including one with me and @akbyrne.bsky.social @keeleuniversity.bsky.social looking at giant cell arteritis and another with our colleagues Lorraine Watson and Anne O'Brien in polymyalgia rheumatica
The @nihrspcr.bsky.social Student Internship Programme is open! Opportunities available at various SPCR institutions. Open to students from ANY undergraduate degree programme from ANY university in the UK

🔗Learn more: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel...

#PrimaryCare #Undergraduate #Internship
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
There are 18 NIHR SPCR internships on offer across the country, including two great projects with us at Keele Medical School 📈📊👩‍💻
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Undergraduates interested in health research, you can check out all the projects on offer here ⬇️✨
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Deadline March 25th.
The @nihrspcr.bsky.social Student Internship Programme is open! Opportunities available at various SPCR institutions. Open to students from ANY undergraduate degree programme from ANY university in the UK

🔗Learn more: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel...

#PrimaryCare #Undergraduate #Internship
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Read the full paper: What helps or hinders the communication of poor prognosis between secondary and primary care? A systematic review with narrative synthesis:
bjgp.org/content/earl...

#GPSky #PrimaryCare #MedSky
What helps or hinders the communication of poor prognosis between secondary and primary care? A systematic review with narrative synthesis
Background The communication of poor prognosis from secondary to primary care helps to ensure that patients with life-limiting illness receive appropriate coordinated care in line with their preferenc...
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November 19, 2024 at 5:59 PM