Ex- pharmacist, still interested in medicines esp RA meds and pharmacy. Tennis, esp Andy Murray, Rugby, Food and beer will get the odd mention.

Joined October 2012
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Overuse of diagnostic testing in healthcare: a systematic review qualitysafety.bmj.com/conten…
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There own terms and conditions exclude pharmacy! As they should of course
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I don’t believe them @doctor_katie @VictoriaTzB @TheGPhC @SKinnock @DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland @jamesmurray_ldn This looks like financial inducement to get more on the Pharmacy First Pathway for insect bites
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Curcumin in arthritis may have NSAID like clinical efficacy. But how? Metanalysis lays out the multiple potential effects for it to inhibit inflammatory signaling pathways (NF-κB, TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, COX-2, and PGE2) buff.ly/H5KkVIi
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Light blue touchpaper and retire?
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Interesting snippet from one of my trusts
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A pharmacy fridge hitting the BBC News has to be a first. Surprised it is newsworthy. You can get centralised alarm kits although they take a fair amount of setting up and then monitoring. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpv8…
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Estimates of benefits and harms of annual mammography screening over 10 years of 10000 50-year-old women via @adamcifu
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The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice psych.hanover.edu/classes/co… via @amostversky1 et al
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VOMIT= Victim of Medical Imaging Technology ⬇️ Incidental Rotator Cuff Abnormalities on Magnetic Resonance Imaging jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… via @shamteppo et al
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It’s now 40 years since this quite brilliant episode of Yes, Prime Minister was broadcast but somehow it still seems remarkably appropriate after all this time! One of the best comedy series ever and superbly acted.
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The Screening Machine: After COVID-19 fractured trust in public health, a once-settled question—whether routine mammograms are worth their cost—has become newly contested, revealing how medicine’s preventive impulse can quietly turn healthy women into patients via @MoMoPerry tabletmag.com/sections/scien… @susan_bewley @MichaelBaum11
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Jo Ringer retweeted
If you don’t bring about justice, then you may one day experience injustice and there will be nobody there to stand before you… Watch this
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Harlequins ladies v Trailfinders , looking forward to a good game. It really has to be a better performance than the men last Saturday. Difficult for it not to be.
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Metanalysis of Tramadol included 19 PBO-RCTs, 6506 pts, showing a very modest benefit on chronic pain (low certainty of evidence), but a doubling of risk for serious adverse events (OR 2.13); including nausea (NNH 7), dizziness (NNH 8), constipation (NNH 9), somnolence (NNH 13) buff.ly/vc3lxxE
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