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How can researchers report scaling studies with maximum accuracy and usefulness?

Guidance for authors ⬇️
https://t.co/Lmbu36RYuA

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Andy Burnham has promised to lead a party that “drives good growth in every postcode.”

The challenge is to ensure that this is not merely another route to conventional economic growth that fails to tackle the UK’s social and environmental challenges
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Growing use of AI by commercial industries is creating new opportunities to influence health.

An AI commercial determinants of health framework may help to identify and assess emerging mechanisms of influence
https://t.co/D0iJJZcM6g

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"The increased workload and safety problems that have accompanied the change to unfettered online access were entirely predictable."

Helen Salisbury on the ever increasing flood of requests through GPs' online portal
https://t.co/lbuHBSeDJM

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The risk of trainee doctors experiencing burnout has slightly decreased, the latest annual survey from the GMC has suggested.

However, there was an increase in the number of trainee doctors reporting regular unwelcome sexual conduct in the workforce
https://t.co/YVYYh3FqDF

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Longstanding frontline Labour politician Yvette Cooper is the new health and social care secretary in new prime minister Andy Burnham’s reshuffled cabinet.

Wes Streeting—who resigned in May—has been appointed defence secretary
https://t.co/f2e05H9XAD

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The number of confirmed cases of Cyclospora is already 6 times higher than last year, and if the possible cases are confirmed, this year’s total is 27 times higher.

Officials suggest that lettuce or salad greens could be a potential source of the outbreak
https://t.co/hlYyaCr5jV

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In just 16 years, a handful of food banks in the UK have proliferated into thousands of community-run food parcel distribution centres.

@sabineegoodwin looks at why we must end the need for charitable food aid @IFAN_UK
https://t.co/qoxi5SPRQj

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"I know a lot of people wouldn’t think of weight training as being meditative, but I’ve done yoga in the past and I find it just as calming."

Consultant psychiatrist Rajen Shah speaks about building physical and mental strength through weight training
https://t.co/9r9FJswFFK

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The potential long term effects on offspring of exposure to a GLP-1 receptor agonist during pregnancy are unknown.

Data gathering in early pregnancy would inform on areas of uncertainty
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Commonly used weight loss drugs may help to reduce symptoms of binge eating disorder, the largest review of the evidence to date has suggested
https://t.co/n155yn7ZsQ

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A legal challenge to a review that recommended limiting the scope of physician assistants and anaesthesia assistants has been dismissed on all grounds in the High Court
https://t.co/Jdz95nOQRA

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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is failing in its role as regulator of maternity services in England, the chair of a national review into maternity and neonatal care has told MPs
https://t.co/EnMPX6iwW0

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Patients in the US are to have easier initial access to the drug lecanemab to treat Alzheimer’s disease thanks to a decision by the US Food and Drug Administration
https://t.co/a1FGUIPBGr

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Having an epidural during labour is not associated with clinically significant increased risks of harm to newborn babies, including brain injury, severe breathing problems, sepsis and death, or cerebral palsy later in childhood, finds #BMJResearch
https://t.co/AgbiTMxBxm

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Many hospital doctors still struggle to access hot or nutritious food while on shift.

This has implications for wellbeing, team unity, and, ultimately, patient care
https://t.co/kMbFeApz6L

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Andy Burnham is making history as the first health secretary to become prime minister of the UK.

In this Editor's Choice @KamranAbbasi offers a seven point health plan for Burnham to restore public and professional trust
https://t.co/pH9jQ18o6O

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Cambridge University Hospitals recently requested an investigation after 40 staff members accessed the medical records of a boy attacked by a crocodile.

Insider risks can disrupt care and compromise patient data
https://t.co/giuhu8bp6N

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Research assessing the effect of different types of contemporary hormonal contraceptives on the risk of developing colorectal cancer in women of reproductive age
https://t.co/EkKhOFAwsS

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Gaps in reporting persist in many areas of health research, including in the science and practice of scaling.

This article presents 33 recommendations for how to report scaling studies with maximum accuracy and usefulness
https://t.co/vLY6eD40oP