Misinformation about health is flooding social media, exposing the limits of current regulations and interventions. In this scoping review, we highlight key challenges and gaps in the current landscape: ebm.bmj.com/content/earl... @brookenickel.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @ucph.bsky.social

sign up sign up come along to our first event 31st october or add yourself to our mailing list for a streamed section of the day. it's going to be excellent. no sponsorship, independent, and amazing people are coming medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...

🚨Publication🚨 Grateful to be part of this publication with @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and colleagues Take home: lots of hormone replace therapy social media claims don't align with best practice recommendations. And lots of the posters have conflicts of interest. Full study: tinyurl.com/2rxpfwnr

Less inequality = fewer problems @profkepickett.bsky.social lays our her vision for a good society at #SSM2025 @socsocmed.bsky.social

Research by alcohol industry funded organisations like DrinkAware often distorts health evidence In that context, Alice Thompson presents on alcohol industry funded research on drink spiking #SSM2025 @socsocmed.bsky.social @markpetticrew.bsky.social @maizie333.bsky.social @spidermaani.bsky.social

There is nowhere safe to go in Gaza. Israeli forces have ordered thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City to evacuate as the military prepares another major assault. States should act to prevent genocide in Gaza and press Israel to reverse course.

Do unhealthy commodity advertising restrictions affect energy consumption, have unintended effects and are there loopholes? Great presentation by @frankdv.bsky.social discussing his evaluation of the Bristol unhealthy commodity advertising restrictions #SSM2025 @socsocmed.bsky.social

“Advertising is one of most effective ways of promoting harmful commodity use” Excellent presentation by @michaelpdaly.bsky.social on what policy restrictions local authorities place on harmful commodity advertising, & what factors impede or facilitate these policies #SSM2025 @socsocmed.bsky.social

Pharmaceutical payments to general practices rose from £2.5 mill in 2015 to £7.5 mill in 2022. 54 companies made payments, but one company, Chiesi—marketing respiratory inhalers—accounted for >50% of payments since 2017 The payment growth and the dominance of one company raise concerns about bias

"Patient Partnership Week has been sponsored by Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca & Novartis" www.patients-association.org.uk/news/patient... Our commentary on commercial influences on patient & public involvement ➡️ academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... @jameslarkin13.bsky.social @healthpromint.bsky.social

Yesterday the Dáil debated legislation to legally mandate public disclosure of payments from pharmaceutical & medical device company payments to healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations. It was refreshing to hear insightful contributions from government and opposition TDs thread: 1/4

Great to speak alongside Kath Sansom & Kieran Harkin in the Oireachtas audiovisual room, outlining the need for sunshine legislation: legally mandated public disclosure of payments from pharmaceutical and medical device company payments to healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations.

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the New Foundations Scheme. The scheme supports eligible researchers who intend to pursue research, networking or dissemination activities within and across the diversity of disciplines. Go to: researchireland.ie/funding/new-foundations/

On Saturday, the Irish Times published a piece I wrote asking whether Novo Nordisk should be funding children’s playgrounds. We need to ask if there are hidden costs to Novo Nordisk funding parts of our education and health systems, costs that may not be worth paying for. shorturl.at/erwpH

On Saturday, the Irish Times published a piece I wrote asking whether Novo Nordisk should be funding children’s playgrounds. We need to ask if there are hidden costs to Novo Nordisk funding parts of our education and health systems, costs that may not be worth paying for. shorturl.at/erwpH

Publication: We modelled the impact of post-2016 changes to prescription medicine co-payment charges and cost caps on out-of-pocket prescription expenditure Mean annual expenditure for medical card holders reduced from €117 to €55. For the DPS-group, it reduced from €719 to €555 shorturl.at/l7OAh

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Liverpool to explore the mental health and environmental impacts of outdoor advertising, focusing on meat and dairy www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

$1000 per day for risdiplam from Roche for treatment of SMA.

Strange that a pharmaceutical industry funded children's poster about intellectual property doesn't mention intellectual property's role in millions of deaths in the COVID pandemic and HIV/AIDS epidemic It's more focused on how IP helps companies "grow and fund further research" ‪@abpi.bsky.social‬

Greyhound racing is a cruel industry where thousands of dogs are killed every year. It is an industry that only benefits the gambling companies and bookmakers. We are calling for a ban on cruel, unpopular Greyhound racing once and for all. #Speirgorm

Grateful to have gotten @researchireland.ie funding to conduct a study with Alcohol Forum Ireland exploring corporate influences on public health alcohol policy. @paulaleonard.bsky.social

🚨 INVESTIGATION: Private clinics delivering NHS cataract surgery face investigation over claims they have artificially inflated costs for the taxpayer, performed unnecessary operations and incentivised high-street optometrists to refer patients to them: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...

Spot the difference 🔎 Left: A Guinness ad near an Irish primary school before a complaint. Right: After the complaint - now Guinness 0.0. A dangerous loophole lets alcohol brands dodge ad restrictions by promoting zero-alcohol products. It's time to close it. Found by @jameslarkin13.bsky.social

Pleased to play a part in this publication on Zero Alcohol in Ireland lnkd.in/eQgXv_pZ 0.0 alcohol is being used as a loophole to facilitate alcohol marketing near schools See images from my town Left: Guinness ad before I complained that it's within 200m of a school, Right: after I complained

🚨Publication We assessed the impact of multimorbidity on out-of-pocket prescription medicine expenditure for all adults in Denmark Even in Denmark, with large government subsidies, people with multimorbidity are vulnerable to high prescription medicine expenditure shorturl.at/caQDW

Proud to have supported this letter to @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social The UK (& Ireland) need a conflict of interest disclosure system detailing the payments that pharmaceutical & medical device companies make to healthcare professionals, healthcare organisations and patient organisations

Looking through @easoobesity.bsky.social #ECO2025 list of sponsors - having diversity in pharma cos. appears to be #Obesity #COI mgt strategy in recent yrs* Also interesting to see Pronokal (Nestlé) back (can't claim lack of awareness this time www.bmj.com/content/380/...) eco2025.org?p=sponsors

The need to call out corporate corruption in health - The Lancet Excellent from Helen Walls @martinmckee.bsky.social and @dinabalabanova.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This publication led by James Larkin reports an analysis of out of pocket expenditure across the whole Danish population, supported by Anders Prior and his colleagues. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢Publication We examined almost every multi-centre RCT with an Irish centre & found big reporting issues 🔎only 27% of RCTs reported number of participants recruited in Ireland Huge €'s are devoted to Irish RCT infrastructure, yet levels of Irish involvement in RCTs aren't clear shorturl.at/9mmGk

📢Publication We examined almost every multi-centre RCT with an Irish centre & found big reporting issues 🔎only 27% of RCTs reported number of participants recruited in Ireland Huge €'s are devoted to Irish RCT infrastructure, yet levels of Irish involvement in RCTs aren't clear shorturl.at/9mmGk

“One official inside the European Commission reportedly summed up how things were looking during a recent meeting: industry had largely secured what they wanted” @irishtimes.com Jack Power Inside the pharma industry’s lobbying campaign to water down reforms www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

"more than a third [of survey respondents said] they had avoided healthcare appointments or buying medicine in the past year due to cost concerns. To afford their healthcare, almost half had cut down on general expenses, 30% accessed savings and 22% reduced food spending." #NCDs

The 2023 disclosure of payments to patient organisations in Ireland

Lists, by country, of financial & non-financial support from Eli Lilly to patient organisations (e.g. funding for 'disease awareness training for advocates' 😏) #COI #CDoH #Obesity www.lilly.com/eu/support-t... Ping @jameslarkin13.bsky.social

Novo Nordisk engaged in a “large-scale, misleading, intransparent, biased promotional campaign of a highly sought after weight management medication. This case revealed deep cultural issues within the company” Piotr Ozieranski speaking on Channel 4’s Dispatches www.channel4.com/programmes/s...

Proud to see our study covered in the @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

🔎 To afford healthcare, 46% of participants cut down on general expenses, 30% accessed savings & 22% reduced food spending 🔎 Choice experiment found that participants were more likely to skip hospital visits if experiencing financial constraints, while medication would be prioritised

📢 PhD Publication Our survey & choice experiment showed that people in Ireland with chronic conditions are experiencing significant financial issues: 🔎Over a third said they avoided healthcare appointments or buying medicine in previous year due to cost bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

📢 PhD Publication Our survey & choice experiment showed that people in Ireland with chronic conditions are experiencing significant financial issues: 🔎Over a third said they avoided healthcare appointments or buying medicine in previous year due to cost bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The pharmaceutical industry rank 6th, spending €21.75 on EU lobbying. And this is likely to be a "substantial underestimate"

Risks of industry funding of universities: Erodes support for academic endeavours not seen as commercially valuable Corporate capture of universities' public-good mission Distracting academic attention away from policies prioritising human & ecological health publicpolicy.ie/papers/indus...

The pharmaceutical industry rank 6th, spending €21.75 on EU lobbying. And this is likely to be a "substantial underestimate"

RCSI department of general practice is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Lung Cancer Screening @rcsi.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

We have a paid summer internship in the Behavioural Research Unit. Looking for final year undergraduate or masters students in psychology, economics or social policy. Enthusiasm for experiments a must!

“I have even been told to tone it down, and that this is how it is, and it’s a rite of passage. The fear of speaking out is huge, but I don’t accept that this is a rite of passage – it is a hiring choice.“ TCD PhD student @conorreddy95.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

"92 healthcare companies executed $2.6 trillion in shareholder payouts between 2001-2022" "Increasing capital distributions to shareholders of publicly traded companies may be associated with higher prices and may not be reinvested in improving access, delivery or research" shorturl.at/459ha

A new study published in the Lancet finds that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the genocide. Apocalyptic.

The striking similarities between these two industry statements & what unfolded since are analysed by us in the @bmj.com. We add to the extensive evidence that health-harming industries mimic tobacco industry strategies to promote their business interests www.bmj.com/content/388/...

"Now is the time to strengthen our systems for addressing conflicts of interest, separating harmful industry funding from science, & acknowledging that public health research should seek to serve the public good, not the profit motives of vested interests" academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...