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...

V excited with postal delivery

🚨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

hi @drlouisenewson.bsky.social . someone just sent me a link to a 'Perimenopause, menopause and mental health: a global survey' but the questions seem so biased that I am having difficulty believing that this is part of research project? has it ethics approval? thankyou.

VERY EXCITING launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi... please sign up and come

20 years post TGN 1412, later , are drug trials safer? v pleased to be doing this for @BBCRadio4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

VERY EXCITING launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi... please sign up and come

Good to see @mgtmccartney.bsky.social & @debscohen.bsky.social back out on tour

The UK’s flagship health research programme promises breakthroughs, but beneath an NHS branded facade, critics are asking who really benefits from the database, heavily backed by industry and government. @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and ‪@debscohen.bsky.social‬ investigate www.bmj.com/content/390/...

ARE YOU A UK MEDICAL STUDENT OR DOCTOR? Please take part in this short survey about medical education in the UK. Thankyou! standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

notes on rcgp council yesterday margaretmccartney.com/2025/06/22/r...

Big claims in the @thetimes today on weight loss drugs and preventative impact. thetimes.com/uk/healthcar.... however;

free link, to me and Susan Bewley editorial in the @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...

It really should not be necessary for a group of volunteer women - work run on donations and good will- to take the scot gov to court to point out their illogicality. Thankyou for all your hard work over many years. Congratulations @ForWomenScot

one of the key things to consider with screening is how the test results will affect advice to minimise health risks vs advice you would have been given anyway without these additional tests being done. so I will leave this here. www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

me in the BMJ, free access #parkrun #socialprescribing Prescribing parkrun: medicalising a walk in the park www.bmj.com/content/389/...

🚨 New Episode! Skinny Jabs and Conflict of Interests with @mgtmccartney.bsky.social A vocal advocate for Evidence Based Medicine, newspaper columnist and contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health. An insightful and no-holds barred chat. Do not miss it!

Met one of my long term heroes today. The amazing Angela Raffle

My and @mgtmccartney.bsky.social critical look at Zoe for both Unherd and The BMJ has sure had legs.... Great to see our work being cited in today's Economist economist.com/britain/2025...

Call me a Luddite but things to stop burnout should be based in evidence. If the job is so bad that people can’t do it- change the job, not the amount of yoga. Opportunity cost for covering for staff having sabbaticals to prevent burnout may be…burnout

ARE YOU A UK MEDICAL STUDENT OR DOCTOR? Please take part in this short survey about medical education in the UK. Thankyou! standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"Three things concern me about the structural way in which Leadbeater’s private member’s bill is being processed." Using a private member’s bill to legislate on assisted dying lacks the necessary preparation for an informed debate, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

just saying

assisted dying, the problem with private members bills, and the need for independent evidence www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Read Margaret’s evidence….it’s the best article I’ve read on this difficult subject, and I’ve been reading a lot. It moves away from the emotional and personal views and is so helpful.

Reminded that Living with Dying by @mgtmccartney.bsky.social is the best book about end of life that I have read. Get yourselves a copy. www.waterstones.com/book/living-... /n

Trying to find the new guidance from ?@TheGPhC trailed on am radio. With something about private providers contacting GPs re weight loss drugs. NHS GPs absolutely cannot take on service work for the private sector. hope this isn’t what it sounded like . Anyone got a link

just wondering where the best place to post about existential despair is these days

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: call for evidence here's mine margaretmccartney.substack.com/p/terminally... www.parliament.uk/business/new...

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: call for evidence here's mine margaretmccartney.substack.com/p/terminally... www.parliament.uk/business/new...

from me and @debscohen.bsky.social on early diagnosis unherd.com/2025/01/the-...

spent 20mins trying to get access to a 1955 paper and thankyou @princetonupress.bsky.social I have managed it v proud

just reading the original vicious book reviews of a tome published in 1955 which is now the go-to ref for a niche area and cited >3000 times. last laugh etc

prob not a day to hang out the washing

Spotify's Daniel Ek's latest tech is Neko Health. Its full body scans a "health check for your future self". Tech enthusiasts are applying mechanistic thinking to complexities of the body. But it's not so simple. @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and and me for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/01/the-...

🔊 Published today, our new Cochrane review on the impact of calorie labelling on people’s selection and consumption of food (including non-alcoholic drinks) and alcohol: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... Short thread below 👇

also here is a tip that you probably knew already but if you set up a log in for pubmed you can save papers to your own personal library and share publicly or not v handy

it's almost as though apps for fertility/contraception should be treated like a medical intervention capable of side effects/ineffectiveness/harm and women should have really high quality information on that srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

you may wish to put this high on your to-read lists . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

basically I want Diana Tavener's wardrobe and her attitude to wear it with

Confusing to the point of bewilderment. I don’t think ecgs are complicated to do but deciding when to do them and what to do with the result might be. Are we talking about screening? Because that IS especially complex…. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If we had did most of thing things inquiries after disasters had told us to do we probably wouldn’t be going round in circles thinking we need to do more inquiries

I seem to have forgotten half my shopping list .

Had a lovely day today @univofstandrews : yes you can do a PhD aged 53. Here is Prof Frank Sullivan who was my fantastic mentor. And yes you can read it here research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023...

Remember guys, before you smash retweet on an article you love because it confirms your bias, READ IT PROPERLY FIRST Or you might just find you retweeted a flaming turd alasdairmunro.substack.com/p/how-junk-s...