Health workers at the CDC and other agencies have urged Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to stop spreading false information and harming public health. In an open letter to Kennedy and Congress, they called his statements "dangerous and deceitful." doi.org/10.1136/bmj...
Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people: cohort study.
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The discussions surrounding the article often highlight the need for better awareness of fall risks among the elderly, using phrases like 'improving awareness' and 'crucial psychological factors' to underline their points. The tone remains mostly inquisitive, as users contemplate the split between perceived and actual risks while questioning implications for healthcare practices aimed at the elderly.
There is a mix of opinions in the discussions, indicating neither strong agreement nor disagreement with the findings.
Many discussions display a notable level of curiosity, with users showing keen interest in researching aspects related to elderly fall risks.
The depth of engagement is somewhat moderate, as users reference the study but do not delve deeply into its implications or methodologies.
While some perceive potential benefits of the findings, others are skeptical about the overall impact on practices regarding elderly health management.
Abstract in brief
- The study examines how the elderly perceive their risk of falling compared to actual physiological risks, focusing on a cohort of 500 men and women aged 70-90 in eastern Sydney.
- The findings show that both perceived and physiological risks independently predict future falls, leading to four distinct groups based on their risk perceptions: vigorous, anxious, stoic, and aware.
- Disparities in risk perception were linked to psychological factors like depression and personality traits, suggesting that improving awareness and attitude towards fall risks may help reduce actual fall occurrences among the elderly.
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RT @EricTopol: An 'indictment' of French Fries for being associated with increased risk of Type 2 diabetes
RT @EricTopol: An 'indictment' of French Fries for being associated with increased risk of Type 2 diabetes
An 'indictment' of French Fries for being associated with increased risk of Type 2 diabetes
НЕТОЧНІ ЦИТАТІ В НАУЦІ: КОЛИ КОЖНЕ СЛОВО МАЄ ЗНАЧЕННЯ Дослідження https://t.co/PLGweR8aTS вказало на некоректний опис цитованих робіт, надмірне узагальнення, відрив від контексту. Вчені пропонують https://t.co/02uLZK6EzB письмово підтверджувати точність кожної цитати в роботі https://t.co/pQHakwtMT4
PM2.5 air pollution from fossil fuels causes 13% of all deaths in the U.S. doi.org/10.1016/j.en... NO2 air pollution causes almost 2% of all deaths in the U.S. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... Long and short term exposure to air pollution increase risk of strokes: doi.org/10.1161/STRO... But we are blamed.
RT @Serginho1409: Current management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy https://t.co/TcI0h4IZT5 #CardioEd #cadiology #MedEd https://t.co/EAbfvr…
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Sturgiss E, Pallavi P, Phillips WR, Moriarty F, Lucassen P, van der Wouden JC, Glasziou P, olde Hartman T, Orkin A, Reeve J, Russell GM, van Weel C. Key items for reports of primary care research: an international Delphi study. BMJ Open 2022;12:e066564. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2022-066564.
Check out the journal article “Ethnic Minority Staff and Patients: A Health Service Failure.” It explores systemic racism in healthcare with sharp insights. Click ‘Responses’ for more perspectives. Worth a read: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
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Los efectos adversos del “publicar o morir”. Hora de empezar a cambiar el sistema dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Surgeon to the Addenbrooke's Hospital, George Murray Humphry, Esq., wrote on 'The Proportions Of The Human Figure' in the 25 September 1858 issue of The British Medical Journal. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... @bmj.com
## How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis in healthy men aged 70 and over ## BMJ 2011; 343 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 15 December 2011)
The BMJ author notably asserts that: "Nowadays, in a drawing room, in the presence of young ladies, no one would venture to speak of a woman being pregnant; and a silencing glance would be directed upon any one who asked, 'when the lady was to be confined'." doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
So is that better or worse than this, Clifford Allen's 'Sexual Offenders', from the 26 March 1949 issue of The British Medical Journal? doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... @bmj.com
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Acceptability, fidelity and implementation of systematic integrated pain management in oncology outpatient services: a process evaluation protocol for a multicentre clustered randomised pilot trial. BMJ Open. 15(6), pe101935. DOI: doi.org/10.1136/bmjo... @meadsd.bsky.social @johnodwyer.bsky.social
RT @JonathanNefro: Los iECA (inhibidores de enzima convertidora de angiotensina) AUMENTAN el riesgo de CANCER de PULMÓN 22%, después de con…
At least they were able to dump this on Instagram for good measure. (Cartoon women with rosy cheeks lying in bed seems to be a genre unto itself.)
Symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency are many and varied. If you want to know more, read this blog pernicious-anaemia-society.org/pernicious-a... (even this doesn't cover all of them). If you want to help your patients, read and follow the NICE guidance and this paper dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...
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The British Medical Journal distinguished itself by loyally editorialising that "We have no sympathy with those who would make political capital out of the high death-rate in the concentration camps" because "The camps appeared to be a military necessity". doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... @bmj.com
Illustrating that people have struggled for states to protect the health and wellbeing of people as opposed to destroying that capacity a la the second Trump Administration, here is 'Chicago Delicacies', from the 2 June 1906 issue of The British Medical Journal. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... @bmj.com
That is lovely Stephen! Love the editorial too.. 'Academic gardening' You may find Hodges' model worth donning gloves, picking up trowel.? It's like 4 raised beds, or an epistemological allotment: nature hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=nat... The model incorporates Monet's bridges too..
Just a deal without empathy for patients. Caution is for American Academy of Paediatrics’ guidelines on weight loss medications for childhood obesity BMJ 2025; 390 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-... ( 7July 2025) …because of systematic conflict of financial interest. LL Hagenaars et al.
CONVERGE’s Director of Law and Policy, @greerdonley.bsky.social, co-authored a paper published in @bmj.com titled ‘Confusion over emergency pregnancy care is endangering patients: Trump’s actions on EMTALA deepen the problem’. Read it here: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
I saw this article on The BMJ app and thought you should see it. https://t.co/KYgvwbJKXX
The #covid-19 pandemic significantly increased the burden of several non-covid conditions, particularly mental health disorders, malaria in young children in the African region, and stroke and ischaemic heart disease in older adults. BMJ. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-083868.
Read our editorial on ethnicity and childhood cancer survival @bmj.com We need better data to analyse outcomes. @rgfeltbower.bsky.social @neil-r.bsky.social doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
open letter published today on Gaza - initiated by fantastic colleagues at LSHTM: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Hello! I DID post the original, but nice of you to share it again. My personal favourite in this tradition remains doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... which addresses an important life-and-death situation in many organisations.
The UN’s draft plan to fight diseases like cancer and mental health conditions lacks bold action. Experts urge stronger measures—banning harmful ads, taxing unhealthy products, and funding fair healthcare—to save lives. doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
From the BMJ: Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
New paper in BMJ out today…. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...
RFKJr threatens to stop US gov scientists from publishing in major medical journals “We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine & those other journals because they’re all corrupt going to create our own journals inhouse” doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
To gesture toward how social conservatism was impacting the possibility of research along the lines pursued by Magnus Hirschfeld in the early 20th century, consider how these two books on sexuality were reviewed in the 10 April 1909 issue of The British Medical Journal. doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
@dsmith2025.bsky.social and I have another new paper out today in BMJ Mental Health. Excited to have published the first ever research study from the Our Future Health UK cohort, involving data from over 1.5 million adults. Highlights below
キャス報告書を援護するようなタイミングで掲載された論文、調べてみたら提出から掲載まで3ヶ月だった。多分かなり短い部類に入ります。 著者のひとりはキャスレビューの諮問委員でSEGMの関係者。掲載されたのはキャスレビューと縁の深いbmj。 コメントにもあるように批判を浴びている論文ですが、英国の国策を擁護するために複数の文書で引用されています。 doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
Thank you - here's the correct link - I shared the wrong BMJ article! doi.org/10.1136/bmjo...
doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... Good letter in BMJ identifies key challenges for clinical academia and trials - with some suggestions for how we could do better. Better use of patient data seems like could be part of the answer.
New commentary in the BMJ GH: Hunter, Benjamin M., David McCoy, Ana Carolina Cordilha, Anna Marriott, Victor Roy, Felix Stein, and Benjamin Wood. 2025. “Private Finance and the Threat to Global Health.” doi.org/10.1136/bmjg....
Our President, Dr Janet Barter, has co-authored an article for @bmj.com with Nicola Packer, @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social, The RCOG, & others to call for urgent reform to abortion law. MPs vote today on decriminalising abortion in England & Wales - a landmark moment.
New suicide prevention guidance in England BMJ 2025; 389 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 05 June 2025) Move to focus on safety rather than risk in assessment, formulation and management and also the recommendation not to use risk prevention tools. #suicideprevention #safety #culturalshift
That non-inferior comparison study came in Bisson et al (2022) doi.org/10.1136/bmj-..., with Spring + 3 hour clinician support vs 12 in-person 60-90min TF-CBT sessions.
This is a tricky issue, but I think the govt are making a mistake: if we go down the route of mandatory reporting we will lose the opportunity to help young people at risk of abuse. doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
緊急時の中絶を義務付けるバイデン政権時代のガイドラインを取り下げたホワイトハウスだが、一方でメディケア・メディケイド・サービスセンターの説明と齟齬があり、現場に混乱をもたらしている。 doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Emergency care plan for England lacks ambition, say doctors’ leaders BMJ 2025; 389 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 06 June 2025) www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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“The scientific community has a chance to disrupt this attack on science (...) When these bad ideas reared their head before, outcry and mobilisation from the scientific community helped defeat them.”— @gretchentg.bsky.social & @jbd-phd.bsky.social in @bmj.com ➡️ www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Bentham has, otherwise, led a relatively uneventful afterlife, only suffering the occasional indignity of restoration. Here he is at Hampton Court in 1980 during just such an exercise doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
The head *was* dehydrated, but had no facial expression, and Smith decided “this would not do for exhibition” – so he asked French artist, Jacques Talrich, who specialised in this sort of thing, to make a wax head. He then doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
If governments funded the NHS properly it would be able to actually built new hospitals and improve working conditions, we wouldnt be stuck training bottle necks, the F3 phenomenon, people being treated in corridors, cos thered be more patient beds, staff, & services doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (2)
Nice obituary for Bert Brooker, who played an important but largely unsung role in keeping heroin prescribing in Britain alive: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Accelerators for improved health among adolescent mothers in South Africa: HIV and violence prevention, sexual reproductive health and education success doi.org/10.1136/bmjg... Paper in BMJ Global Health co-authored by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social 's Lucie Cluver & Janina Jochim
A reminder again that racism is real since there's some social work journal editors who needed to be reminded since they allowed for a racist special issue to be published. doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
RFKjr、ポッドキャストでアメリカの科学者に一流ジャーナルでの論文発表を禁止すると発言。 具体的にはランセット、JAMA、NEJMを挙げ、同ジャーナルが本物の論文を掲載し不当な撤回を辞めるよう方針転換を求める。 ランセットはワクチンと自閉症の関係をでっち上げたウェイクフィールドの論文を撤回したジャーナル。 JAMAとNEJMは以前連邦検事からDEI方針について脅しつけられている。 RFKjrの発言は、自身が抜擢したバッタチャリア氏の方針と矛盾する。 doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
The 10 year plan & the shift from hospital to community: 'To make this a reality, & not just another episode of well intentioned hand waving that leads to no discernible change, it will need careful planning & substantial investment in estates and staff.' doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
#Droughts, #floods, and water shortages are exposing young #adolescents in #Kenya to early pregnancy, gender-based violence, and school dropout, says a new study in 'BMJ Global Health'. DOI: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg... #SRH #ClimateChange
Read the paper: Svedenkrans J, Hellgren K, Backlund K, et al. Determination of prednisolone concentration in human breast milk and plasma of breastfed infants: study protocol of a Swedish multicentre low-intervention clinical trial. BMJ Open. 2025;0:e097898. doi.org/10.1136/bmjo...
Hmm BMJ link wrong. Try this: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...
The explanation & elaboration paper is here: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-... All CONSORT 2025 & SPIRIT 2025 documents, figures & fillable checklists are here: www.consort-spirit.org @equatornetwork.bsky.social 2/2
SPIRIT 2025 - the updated reporting guide for RCT protocols - is now published: BMJ: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-... JAMA: doi.org/10.1001/jama... Lancet: doi.org/10.1016/S014... PLOS Med: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Nature Med: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/2
Some research
Nationwide variation in cholecystitis treatment identified. by van Maasakkers MHG, Weijs TJ (...) Boerma D et 4 al. in BMJ Open #Surgery #SurgSky #GeneralSurgery #MedSky
7/ I admit I have NO idea how humans in 2100 & beyond will choose to make families & live their lives. Neither does anyone else. But I do know that social engineering designed to change this unknown distant future is likely to fail, at potentially high human cost. doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...
Nice work Germany
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Citations: PM2.5- deaths: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... NO2- deaths: dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... other health risks: www.lung.org/research/sot... air pollution- health- Southeast: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... crop yields: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... Pm2.5 reduces GDP: api.developmentaid.org/api/frontend...
After recovering from the initial “WTF did I say?”feeling… now pleased to be part of this @bmj.com
"In the US, patients lose access to their primary care doctor when they enter a hospice" WTF #medsky We really need to do death better. dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
BMJ reports ‘ scotland lags england in NHS post COVID recovery dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
What is an emulated trial, and what is the diff with standard retrospective analysis ? dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-... The idea is to follow a RCT recruitment protocol: people eligeable assigned at a given time to treatment. We use propensity matching two have comparable groups #EpiSky 3/5
9/ Here are a couple of seminal articles: Stone J, Burton C, Carson A. Recognising and explaining functional neurological disorder BMJ 2020; 371 :m3745 doi:10.1136/bmj.m3745 Aybek S, Perez DL. Diagnosis and management of functional neurological disorder. BMJ. 2022;o64. dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
Good to see at least one of the Royal Colleges has some common sense amongst their leadership dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
The link to the full paper, published in BMJ Mental Health is here: dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
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7 Signs of Burnout That You Shouldn't Ignore https://t.co/tBT76BeN9G via @YouTube
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@ReubenKihiu1 I am experiencing it now
7 Signs of Burnout That You Shouldn't Ignore https://t.co/rjzKWY4RMi via @YouTube
Very important, especially for streamers! ☺️ https://t.co/Vt9n47KgnM via @YouTube
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7 Burnout Signs You Shouldn't Ignore https://t.co/tcQ4x0J8Bi
I clicked this SPECIFICALLY because of the Demon Slayer reference. https://t.co/rm4tjbiBB9
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I'm SUPER excited!! The first video I've been script editor on for @Psych2go has been released! (Not the first script I edited though). Check it out here! It's all on burnout. #psych2go #Psychology #mentalhealth #editing https://t.co/hmQM4A2H1r
RT @drjohnmorley: Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people: cohort study https:…
RT @drjohnmorley: Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people: cohort study https:…
Determinants of disparities between perceived and physiological risk of falling among elderly people: cohort study https://t.co/gRh3FegHSF
Physical activity for smoking cessation in pregnancy: randomised controlled trial BMJ 2015; 350 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h2145