A new Politico piece on chronic diseases quotes #CUNYSPH Prof. Jeffrey V Lazarus on how food environments shape health more than “individual choice”. 💬 “What are the options, what’s available, do you even have the ability to purchase healthy foods?” Read more: cunysph.me/4gPQMT7#CUNYSPH

💬 'Wilton Park has shown to be a powerful outlet to reach world leaders and shape strategic health discussions.' In our latest blog, @jvlazarus.bsky.social explains how his partnership with Wilton Park has delivered policy impact. #WiltonPark80 🔗 wiltonpark.org.uk/idea/80-year...

🚨 Don't miss the third webinar of the #LIVERAIM series! 📹 youtube.com/watch?v=qdM_... #SLDthinktank @jvlazarus.bsky.social @ihieurope.bsky.social @easlnews.bsky.social @majathiele.bsky.social @salvatore-piano.bsky.social @aleksanderkrag.bsky.social

😶Liver disease is often suffered in silence. Stigma and shame block care. 💡It’s a chronic illness, not consequence of bad choices. 🩺Everyone deserves support. At #LIVERAIM, we’re breaking the silence. #EndTheStigma #LiverHealthMatters #HealthEquity @ihieurope.bsky.social @easlnews.bsky.social

Happy to support and endorse the People First Liver Charter in ‪‪@natmed.nature.com‬‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41... We've always taken a sensitive approach to the language used in our journal, and will continue to do so. See this Editorial www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The People-First Liver Charter - opportunities for improving awareness, tackling stigma, building accessible care pathways, maintaining linkage to treatment/monitoring, & reducing health inequities. 🧪 Led by @jvlazarus.bsky.social #NoHep #MedSky #HepSky #LiverSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease, we launched the People-First Liver Charter www.nature.com/articles/s41... + A call for doubling the diagnostic rate of at-risk MASH www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #SLDthinktank #InMotionTogether #LiverSky

Congratulations to @jvlazarus.bsky.social on receiving the Eugene T. Davidson Public Service Award from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology! This award recognises exceptional contributions to clinical excellence, research, public health, and community engagement in #endocrinology.

Here we are in Spanish talking liver health. #WorldLiverDay

Read about Chronic Liver Disease, MASLD/MASH, and the Global NCD Agenda in the context of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on NCDs this Sept. We need to take action every day and not just on #WorldLiverDay! sldthinktank.com/un-hlm-2025-... #liversky #SLDthinktank

🌎Did you know 1 in 3 adults worldwide has #MASLD? It’s tied to obesity, diabetes & high cholesterol, it can lead to fibrosis and cancer. This #WorldLiverDay remember: #FoodIsMedicine! 💪Let's make #liverhealth a priority @easlnews.bsky.social @ihieurope.bsky.social @europeliver.bsky.social

"Food is Medicine" -But for whom? The accessibility problem in nutrition and liver health: worldliverday.org/food-is-medi... #WorldLiverDay #SLDthinktank #LiverSky @easlnews.bsky.social @ebtapper.bsky.social @aleksanderkrag.bsky.social @debbieshawcross.bsky.social @melinamanolas.bsky.social

New paper from us in @jhepatology.bsky.social: www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S016... Causes of death in >13,000 persons with #MASLD - check it out #liversky. So proud of co-senior author Axel Wester and first author medical student Gabriel Issa for the work!

❓Did you miss the second #LIVERAIM webinar? Check out our Youtube channel and discover what an #earlydiagnosis of #chronicliverdisease truly means for patients! 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmw5... @easlnews.bsky.social @ihieurope.bsky.social @europeliver.bsky.social

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease encompasses a spectrum from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver or isolated hepatic steatosis through to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (#MASH). #MASLD https://www.nature.c...

New Nature disease primer on #MASLD out now. MASLD affects 1 in 3 adults, yet it’s still underrecognized beyond #hepatology. That’s why our multidisciplinary team collaborated to cover epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment & prevention 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-025-00599-1 #LiverSky

In a related topic, more about MASLD in an amazing Nature Reviews Disease Primers article just published: 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41... @jvlazarus.bsky.social

📌Tomorrow is the day: don't miss the 2nd #LIVERAIM webinar! ✒️Register now! tinyurl.com/bdhyjv8e @europeliver.bsky.social @easlnews.bsky.social @jvlazarus.bsky.social @aleksanderkrag.bsky.social @mkdmilan.bsky.social @majathiele.bsky.social @worldhepalliance.bsky.social

WHO "emphasizes the value of an integrated approach to HIV", drawing on our important evidence: "Integrated management of HIV, diabetes, and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa (#INTEAFRICA): a pragmatic cluster-randomised, controlled trial" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @gavinyamey.bsky.social

⌛️4 day left! Join 2nd #LIVERAIM webinar and learn what patients really think about #earlydiagnosis: the hopes, the fears, and the reality! 🗓️3 March 17:30-18:10 CET 👉Register now tinyurl.com/bdhyjv8e @europeliver.bsky.social @easlnews.bsky.social @jvlazarus.bsky.social @aleksanderkrag.bsky.social

📣 The second #LIVERAIM webinar is on the way! Early diagnosis of chronic liver disease - What does it mean for patients? 🗓️ 3 March 17:30-18:10 CET 🔗 Register now! tinyurl.com/4j97xhp9 #earlydiagnosis #changingtheparadigm @easlnews.bsky.social @aleksanderkrag.bsky.social @jvlazarus.bsky.social

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dr @aleksanderkrag.bsky.social kicks off the #SLDsummit. First session is the SLD patient trajectory, proud to have contributed to it. We're joining after a fabulous visit to the Portuguese diabetes centre in Lisbon yesterday... @easlnews.bsky.social

Hi #BlueSky! We are an international network of organisations working in over 100 countries towards the goal of eliminating hepatitis by 2030. Looking forward to connecting with likeminds! Learn more about us: www.worldhepatitisalliance.org

My #LiverSky recap of 2024 MARCH was kick-off month for @liveraim.bsky.social ‼️ Learn more: liveraim.eu LIVERAIM sets direction for biomarker research & implementation, including POSITIVE: the largest RCT in hepatology, with n=100,000 @aleksanderkrag.bsky.social @salvatore-piano.bsky.social

2025 is the perfect year to take your career to the next level🚀 There are also 6 positions to fill in the EASL Scientific Committee, Policy Public Health and Advocacy Committee, Ethics and Compliance Committee and Nurses & AHPs Task Force. Apply by 20 January: easl.eu/leadership25 #LiverSky

There is no health without #MentalHealth💚 In 2025, let's make sure mental health is given the same priority as physical health by standing up against stigma and ensuring more people can access the support they need.

How much would buying the Sudetenland cost? We asked the experts. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/b...

In 1964, the World Medical Association adopted the first version of its Declaration of Helsinki. This Viewpoint discusses key revisions of the Declaration of Helsinki 2024 in the context of internationally accepted ethical guidance for human research. https://ja.ma/3C4qXyD

Recent work showing diverse treatment responses in #HBV infection. Treatment can work well but we need to understand it better, & focus on those in whom viraemia is not suppressed. @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk #HepSky 🧪 JHEP REP www.jhep-reports.eu/article/S258...

📚New study: Increasing value-added taxes rates on meat and dairy and reducing #VAT on fruits and vegetables can improve diets and result in #health, environmental and economic benefits in #Europe @naturefood.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The greatest review written on liver biopsy: indications, interpretation, and its future By Dr Purva Gopal and colleagues in HepCommJournal Open access journals.lww.com/hepcomm/full... #liversky #pathsky

I'm very much looking forward to the EASL #SLDsummit in 2 weeks. We have an oral on MASLD #BestBuys, 2 posters on #MASHcities and one on the cost of Inaction. I'll also chair the #publichealth session - don't miss it. #LiverSky

Peter Yarrow, whose vocals for the trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped establish them as one of the most popular folk acts of the 1960s, died on Tuesday at 86. The folk trio became a pop phenomenon with hits like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Puff the Magic Dragon.” nyti.ms/3PqOFIp

Alcohol and MASLD are driving new cases of liver cancer in the US. These are diseases that can be addressed with robust public health measures to reduce downstream ill health #preventativehepatology doi.org/10.1111/apt....

JUST OUT: "A European Survey to Identify Challenges in the Management of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @easlnews.bsky.social #LiverSky

📻 Join me tomorrow, 5-6pm ET, on Duke radio, wxdu.org, for a new episode of Conversations on Healthcare! My focus will be obesity prevention & management—my guests will discuss medical approaches, ways to change our “obesogenic environment,” & insights from behavioral economics on food/exercise

Our recent @thelancet.bsky.social Commission on Investing in Health report estimates there were >23 million excess deaths during the emergency phase—Jan 30 2020 to May 4 2023—almost all attributable to COVID-19, globalhealth2050.org In the next pandemic I hope we do a better job averting mass death

No.1 in our most impactful articles of 2024 (Altmetrics) This REVIEW on ultra-processed foods and food additives in gut health and disease www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Sharedit link: rdcu.be/d5mvy #Gastrosky #Liversky #Microsky 🍎📃

This was an impressive piece of work that I was pleased to contribute to. And welcome to BlueSky @jvlazarus.bsky.social

Nice attention to the liver in the guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Would love to see more coverage in Swedish media on this as well!

Jeff is here! @jvlazarus.bsky.social And Added a bunch more to part 2 #liversky

Special #NewYearsDay edition of #followfriday because you should definitely be well informed in 2025. @jvlazarus.bsky.social a global leader in public health @iddocjen.bsky.social a cross-disciplinary researcher @profgoldberg.bsky.social a bioethicist @aetiology.bsky.social an ACTUAL epidemiologist

Most Viewed JAMA 2024: Medications for Obesity 🔗 ja.ma/3Djs3ab

My heartfelt condolences to everyone affected by the Boeing 737-800 flight crash in S Korea. www.bbc.com/news/live/c4... When the Boeing flight went down in Ethiopia 5 years ago, one of my @isglobal.org team members was on-board. She had won the @easlnews.bsky.social Young Investigator award twice.

We were thrilled to be on the Oct 2024 cover of @natrevgastrohep.bsky.social with "Food inequity and insecurity and MASLD: burden, challenges, and interventions" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Looking forward to seeing the 2025 covers @heykatray.bsky.social #LiverSky