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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · 6d

Really looking forward to speaking about intersectionality in our approach to abortion access at the @bsacp.org.uk conference later today - do come along and say hi if you're there!

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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · 16d

So...we're just letting this happen again, are we?

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · Aug 19

"It doesn't work reliably, so just don't use it for anything, like, super important" is a wild thing to say about your own product

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 19

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions

www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot Al to help ...
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The Verget-4.1-mini Al model | 5
successor to the LABS.GENERATIVEAI function Microsoft started experimenting
with in 2023.
Microsoft notes that you can combine its new Al function with other Excel functions, including IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, or WRAPROWS. The company adds that information sent through Excel's COPILOT function is "never" used for AI training, as "the input remains confidential and is used solely to generate your requested output."
The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in “high-stakes scenarios” with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can
give incorrect responses."
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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · Aug 18

I feel like this is happening in the AI space - billions in investment for nebulous health interventions on the promise that they might save money down the line. Can we please remember that health technologies are expensive to implement, and this has an impact on healthcare expenditure!

Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · Aug 18

Meanwhile, interventions that tackle the structural determinants of health often don't attract investment (despite being much cheaper!), because it's difficult to prove that they would save money in the short term. Even if it's clear that there would be significant benefit to populations.

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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · Aug 18

Interesting paper - semaglutide increases healthcare costs despite lowering incidence of some high-cost outcomes. Preventative technologies often don't produce the cashable savings that they're marketed on, but this usually isn't a barrier to investment.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Health Care Expenditures With Semaglutide

This cohort study evaluates changes in cardiovascular risk factors and health care expenditures after initiation of semaglutide.

jamanetwork.com

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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · Jul 27

As someone who grew up in a family that was obsessed with football, young me could never have imagined the journey that women's football has taken to get this point. Huge congratulations to the #Lionesses ⚽️

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · Jul 7

It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it?

Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Jun 6

More powerful evidence that race is not genetic (from AllofUs)

But “The screening of [NIH] scientists’ communications contrasts with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s promise to foster a culture of free speech.”

www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research

A large government study shows that Americans’ self-reported race is a poor proxy for their genetic ancestry.

www.statnews.com

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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · Jun 3

Today's @ukhsa.bsky.social report shows a ⬇️in gonorrhoea infections - a testament to the hard work of public health teams and their commissioned sexual health services - but there is still work to be done.

👀Read our response ➡️ www.adph.org.uk

UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · Jun 3

We have published new data on sexually transmitted infections in England:
📈 Syphilis diagnoses continued to rise
📉 Gonorrhoea cases dropped overall, with the biggest reduction in young people (15 to 24)

A chart showing long-term syphilis trends in England from 1931.

A chart showing long-term gonorrhoea trends in England from 1918.

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Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · May 2

#HealthInequalities: Stark social divides in #InfectiousDisease admission rates in England, study finds

UK Health Security Agency says people in most deprived areas almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital as those in least deprived.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Stark social divides in infectious disease admission rates in England, study finds

UKHSA says people in most deprived areas almost twice as likely to be admitted to hospital as those in least deprived

www.theguardian.com

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Apr 21

Once widespread, smoking is now uncommon in Great Britain 🧵

Line chart showing the decline in smoking among adults over age 16 in Great Britain from 1974 to 2023. In 1974, around 51% of men and 41% of women reported smoking cigarettes. Over the decades, these rates fell steadily. By 2023, only about 12% of men and 10% of women reported smoking. The gap between men and women remained fairly consistent, with men having slightly higher rates throughout the period. The chart illustrates a dramatic and sustained decline in smoking for both sexes.

The data is sourced from the GLS & OPN surveys (2023) and published by OurWorldinData.org under a Creative Commons BY license.

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Adam Briggs @admbriggs.bsky.social · Apr 7

Today, we've published new @healthfoundation.bsky.social / @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social showing the public supports bolder policy approaches to tackle alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy food. 1/n

www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...

Graph summarising Health Foundation / Ipsos polling data. It shows levels of public support across a range of population-level public health policies, some of which are summarised in the thread.

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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · Mar 7

This is probably obvious to all who follow me here, but when a very contagious infection leads to rare terrible outcomes (measles, COVID), it can both be devastating at a population level, & also most patients will recover without therapy, which makes any therapy look like it works, anecdotally.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · Mar 7

RFK Jr says he talked to two frontline doctors treating measles patients in Texas, seeing "almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery" with an unproven regimen of a steroid, antibiotic & cod liver oil

One of those doctors, Richard Bartlett, was disciplined by the Texas Medical Board in 2003 (1/2)

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Mar 28

I stand in solidarity with all of my colleagues who do health equity research. This work matters for the communities we serve.
This week has been catastrophic for grant cancelations and our communities are hurting terribly.
Please share and stand with us in solidarity.

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Mar 27

Tax and benefit policies have cut incomes since the election, with low-to-middle income households being the most affected.

Households in the bottom half of the income distribution will lose on average 1.4 per cent of their income, compared to 0.7 per cent for households in the top half.

Chart showing Change in annual income as a result of tax and benefit policy changes announced since the 2024 general election, by income vigintile: UK, 2029-30 (2024-25 prices)

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Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan @drrageshri.bsky.social · Mar 17

“We’re seeing a rise in broken legs being diagnosed.”

The discourse about this would not be about ‘over-diagnosis’, but about investigation into why this was happening, prevention and support. Perhaps we could do the same for other diagnoses.

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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · Mar 13

Feeling very sorry for anyone working at NHS England today - I feel like this has been incredibly poorly handled.

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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · Mar 13

Public health is almost always characterised as 'bureaucracy' when one of these organisational changes happens, but it's particularly galling after living through a pandemic where policy analysis and expert decision making was so clearly necessary as part of the frontline response.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Mar 13

Whatever the rights and wrongs of abolishing NHS England I find the language Starmer used *troubling*

It's exactly what a future populist extreme govt would say to justify removing independence from institutions.

Also - back office staff, management & planning are very important functions!

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Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan @drrageshri.bsky.social · Feb 14

✨My essay in @thelancet.bsky.social this week has made the front page!✨ (I didn’t know about this 🤗)

‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · Feb 20

Thank you!

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Danielle Solomon @dsolomon.bsky.social · Feb 20

The opinion piece that I was commissioned to write as part of the BMJ's "Racism in Medicine" special issue was published today! Do have a read.

The BMJ @bmj.com · Feb 20

Racial inequity stretches across the entirety of reproductive health.

To tackle inequities, we must understand intersectionality and the complex, structural drivers of inequality, writes @dsolomon.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Digital Health @digitalhealth2.bsky.social · Feb 14

Hetan Shah, chief executive of The British Academy, said that the NHS and UK government “can’t just overlay tech on a failing service”.

Full story 👉 ow.ly/iQxl50V054A

‘AI can’t just be overlaid on a failing health service’

Hetan Shah, chief executive of The British Academy, said that the NHS "can't just overlay tech on a failing service”.

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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · Feb 6

Our Vice President Alice Wiseman is quoted in the BMJ investigation on tactics used by industry to overturn council attempts to prevent new fast food outlets.

“It’s very undermining in the role of local government in being able to shape a healthy environment".

bit.ly/4hNQAmH

McDonald’s triumphs over councils’ rejections of new branches—by claiming it promotes “healthier lifestyles”

The fast food giant used a GP to support appeals against planning decisions in some deprived areas with the worst rates of food related ill health in England. Then it threatened councils with bills fo...

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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · Jan 29

Calorie labels on menus are negatively impacting people with eating disorders.

A new study from @kingsnmpc.bsky.social published in the BMJ Public Health found that people with eating disorders changed their behaviours if presented with calorie labels on a menu.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/calorie...

Calorie labels on menus could make eating disorders worse

Calorie labels on restaurant menus are negatively impacting people with eating disorders, according to a new study.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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