Research has found that a routine vaccine slows aging and cut dementia risk. www.vox.com/health/47776...
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Research has found that a routine vaccine slows aging and cut dementia risk. www.vox.com/health/47776...
LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account:
> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement
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A microsimulation model to estimate the impact of care disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer mortality using an administrative database.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Via @jclinepi.bsky.social
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
New study links marijuana use during IVF to higher risk of abnormal embryos, potentially providing new insights into the link between cannabis use and female fertility.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/m...
Via @statnews.com
#fertility #cannabis #marijuana #IVF #statnews
With social media site Bluesky growing in popularity among academics, a new study has revealed how it measures up against X when it comes to sharing and promoting scientific research.
Most Americans still don’t know that #alcohol can cause #cancer — and the alcohol industry and Trump are working hard to make sure it stays that way by discrediting and burying a new report that offers new evidence of the link between drinking alcohol and dying www.vox.com/health/46008... @vox.com
What's wrong with the obsession to consume high protein in your diet or via bars, supplements, or powders?
A review of the data on efficacy and safety erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...
Let's all try not to get surgery immediately before the weekend...
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@jamanetworkopen.com
Really thought provoking article on Canada's assisted dying law - and the fairly murky 'rules' that are supposed to guide clinician's on who is eligible for the procedure.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences.
They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.
They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
Scientists have mapped individual sugar molecules on the surface of cells at a resolution once thought to be impossible for light microscopes
go.nature.com/40I9Ewv
The U.S. is paying $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of contraceptives - including IUDs, implants & pills - meant for low-income countries that don't expire until 2027 to 2031. This takes the Republican madness to boost the birth rate by any means to a new level...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Great article from Nichola Ibe feat. some (hopefully helpful) insights from me on the need for professional indemnity insurance as a science writer.
"Doing good quality work should be protection enough" - but it's always good to have some insurance - as well as indemnity clauses in your contract.
Screenshot of the PubMed homepage showing the service alert banner describing the planned maintenance for 24h+ from 25th July
Starting to have this awful, sinking feeling that the 24h+ of "planned maintenance" on PubMed is just going to turn into the US government shutting down the site completely in pursuit of their silencing of evidence-based medicine. Here's hoping we're wrong...🤞🏻 #pubmed #research #evidence
At least since the mid-20th century, England has left mass hunger behind. How was this possible? How did English farmers prove Malthus wrong?
My 'Data Insight' on @ourworldindata.org today is about rising yields and falling hunger.
→ ourworldindata.org/data-insights
Prospective registration was associated with a reduced risk of bias for randomised controlled trials: a meta-research study.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Via @jclinepi.bsky.social
#riskofbias #bias #reportingguidelines #trialregistration #clinicaltrials #research #evidence
More than half of the UK government’s nutrition advisers are paid by world’s largest food companies, including Nestlé, Unilever and Tate & Lyle, generating big conflicts of interest.
www.bmj.com/content/386/...
Via @bmj.com
#OA #openaccess #conflictofinterest #nutrition #food #publichealth
New dental costs of $9.8 billion are expected if the rest of the USA follows Utah and Florida in banning the addition of fluoride to water, based on a new cost-effectiveness analysis.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...
@statnews.com
#evidence #research #fluoride #dentalhealth #health #dentistry
Had enough of the Google AI overview search page nightmare? We’ve changed over to @startpage.com as a browser. Excellent so far! It uses Google’s search engine with super duper privacy protection. It also doesn’t throw up the annoying accept/reject cookies notice every time you open your homepage! 🎉
This is pretty impressive! 🏸
In the wake of several countries legalising #marijuana, questions remain about the drug's long-term #health effects. A new study has found that people who smoke weed or use edibles do worse on measures of vascular health that predict cardiovascular risk.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@jama.com
The front page of the Grant Watch website, providing an introduction to the project and offering more resources for any scientists whose grant has been terminated by the Trump administration
This critical work from @hsph.harvard.edu scientists continues to compile a list of the NIH & NSF grants that have been cut by the Trump administration in 2025.
Over 2,100 grants have gone, many with a focus on minorities - women, LGBTQ, others.
grant-watch.us
#grantwatch #science #research
A scoping review of carbon emissions associated with clinical trials finds that several trial activities, including travel and meetings, trial facilities, and sample & lab activities, are consistently carbon heavy.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#scopingreview #openaccess
Brand new SPIRIT and CONSORT #reporting #guidelines are out now!
🎯 CONSORT 2025 for reporting RCTs now has a 30-item checklist
🎯 SPIRIT 2025 for reporting trial protocols now has a 34-item checklist
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#SPIRIT #CONSORT #RCTs #protocols
A diagram with seven blue circles describing the different items within a patient-researcher research cycle. The seven blue circles include: designing and managing, undertaking, disseminating, implementing, evaluating impact, prioritising and commissioning
A new reporting guideline has just been published for the involvement of patients and caregivers in identifying and designing healthcare interventions: the IDEAS framework www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... HT @jclinepi.bsky.social #OA #openaccess #IDEAS #coproduction #patients #partners #research
Yet another facepalm for the Trump administration - they’re almost constant at this point 🤦
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Out of the top 25 most-cited papers in the 21st century, the #PRISMA statement comes in at number 6 with a mind-boggling 133,965 citations according to Web of Science.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
H/T @nature.com
#systematicreviews #evidence #evidencesynthesis #statistics #data #citations