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12 Mar 2025
Well said! Screening (by defn) is the worst form of healthcare, way behind actual prevention & cure, & esp as it creates harmed, anxious, overdiagnosed & overtreated people, many of whom are not 'saved' @HealthSenseUK @EvidenceMatters @NIHRresearch @NIHRevidence @wesstreeting
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We're back in @PrivateEyeNews (issue 1647), exposing the misuse of hyperbaric oxygen chambers by unqualified complementary therapy providers, and the lack of action from UK medicines regulator @MHRAgovuk @mgtmccartney @compandalt @drphilhammond
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"I'm a top women's doctor and I would NEVER take up an invite for a breast screening. Women are being lied to by the NHS and this is the REAL truth about mammograms you must know" Hard facts on BC screening from @susan_bewley dailymail.co.uk/health/artic…
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HealthSense retweeted
14 Dec 2024
Women with in-depth understanding of harms of overdiagnosis & overRx confidently decline breast screening & it adds to their dissatisfaction with the way NHSBSP present info. Good. Stop bullying us! @mgtmccartney @BreastCancerNow @trishgreenhalgh @pash22 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1…
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HealthSense retweeted
17 Dec 2024
Today we meet with Patient Safety Minister Gillian Merron to discuss financial redress for mesh injured women as set out in the #firstdonoharm report uk.news.yahoo.com/financial-…
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HealthSense retweeted
13 Dec 2024
Letter published by @HealthSenseUK: "the Cass Review did not cover all the reasons for cross-sex identification, and omitted discussion of autogynephilia. This appears to have no justification"
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HealthSense retweeted
6 Dec 2024
An alternative healer who promoted a “slapping therapy” taken up by millions of people across the world has been jailed for the gross negligence manslaughter of a British woman who died at one of his workshops in Wiltshire
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
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4 Dec 2024
Dear @Risk_Literacy having trouble connecting to your website just now, hope it will be OK soon? We want to link to your brilliant fact boxes to help people make evidence-based decisions on whether to take up screening tests! hardingcenter.de/en/transfer…
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4 Dec 2024
This looks like irresponsible marketing. PSA test is unreliable & not advised for young men without symptoms. Can lead to unnecessary treatment => infection, erectile dysfunction and incontinence news.cancerresearchuk.org/20…
This is outrageous @RandoxHealth . How is this a PSA by any stretch of imagination????? @mgtmccartney @ProstateUK @susan_bewley @MichaelBaum11 @paulpharoah @naserturabi @SteveLaitner @VincentGnanapr3
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4 Dec 2024
Congratulations @mgtmccartney it's an important piece of work, which exposes how far we are from transparent declaration of conflicts of interest in healthcare. We look forward to your work informing policy that will keep patients safer.
3 Dec 2024
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-andre…
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2 Dec 2024
Recording of last week's Awards night includes extraordinary presentation by brave @PMurray_65 our 2024 Award Winner, on the horrifying harms of unethical stem cell research. With introduction by @nickross and Peter Wilmshurst. youtube.com/watch?v=H9ySk3m_…
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2 Dec 2024
Congratulating the brilliant winners of the 2024 HealthSense Student Prize competition! LtoR: Kinan Wihba, Alex Fleet, Dervla Murphy, Edoardo Beltazar, Matthew Lim, with HealthSense president @nickrosscom Find out more: healthsense-uk.org/news/437-…
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28 Nov 2024
Interesting and well designed survey on how we make decisions about whether to take up invitations for screening
11 Oct 2024
Detecting cancer early through a screening programme could save your life. But a false result can lead to further tests and potentially unnecessary treatment.
Our new project with @Cambridge_Uni and @NIHRresearch wants to hear your views.
Take part 👉 bit.ly/3XZpTDb
ALT Thiscovery logo. Cancer screening. Have your say on what would make you more or less likely to take part in screening for cancer. University of Cambridge Department of Public Health and Primary Care logo and NIHR Policy Research Unit (Cancer awareness, screening and early diagnosis) logo.
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HealthSense retweeted
6 Nov 2024
so proud to see this! (am a patron of the marvellous @HealthSenseUK) marvellous work @david_colquhoun @susan_bewley @Majikthyse
Well well, our paper has appeared in Private Eye -read the paper (open access) at royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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HealthSense retweeted
27 Nov 2024
5/ Are we confident that immediate and early clamping are not going on in the UK (in an uncontrolled and non-justified way)? How do we know? @CallTheMidwife1 @BBCNews
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HealthSense retweeted
27 Nov 2024
4/ What will obstetricians, MWs & NNs make of this? @OBSevidence @jimgthornton @RCObsGyn @bwmol @neel_shah @AJOGEd_RR @DrJenGunter @crageshri @DrNancyOlivieri @PGtzsche1 @ProfJennyGamble @profsarakenyon @sandallJane @MidwivesRCM
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HealthSense retweeted
27 Nov 2024
3/ Were the mothers told? Have the babies been followed up? @pash22 @drruthannharpur @mancunianmedic @HLPretermBirth @barttels2 @benryanwriter @Healthy_Control @OBSevidence @ProfJoyceHarper @rethink_health1 @HLStatInquiries @KenZeroHarm @JuliaMasonMD1 @millihill @mgtmccartney
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HealthSense retweeted
27 Nov 2024
2/ Immediately after birth, half the babies had their blood supply cut off (established to be harmful). The experiment looked at their hypoxic brains. The ethics permission was inadequate. @AndyWilks61 @BBCHughPym @ClareWilsonMed @bmj_latest @KamranAbbasi @TheLancet @JAMA_current
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HealthSense retweeted
26 Nov 2024
FYI a retracted paper on cord clamping @ivanoransky @RetractionWatch @CamillaKingdon @BAPM_Official @RCObsGyn @buist_rob @Majikthyse @HealthSenseUK @rethink_health1 @consiliumsci @senseaboutsci ijponline.biomedcentral.com/…
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HealthSense retweeted
27 Nov 2024
Good news but no Regulator register of interests? @HealthSenseUK
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