Adam Jacques

Journalist @Independent for 12 years, now freelance writer on health, tech, art and all things Cystic Fibrosis related. Might as well, seeing as I have it

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

After a rollercoaster year, my first piece on #CysticFibrosis and life on oxygen, in today's @guardian @guardiang2 https://t.co/cqOuepRafH

[A Caring Mind @acaringmind]

Undiagnosed adult ADHD could cost UK billions a year, report finds

https://t.co/wCXWpzlMob

[Ben White @drbenwhite]

A person with Cystic Fibrosis takes first breaths with new lungs. One of the most amazing pieces of footage I have seen. @NHSOrganDonor https://t.co/44GR99q7CQ

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

@jayrosen_nyu @Recode But isn't that like a utilities supplier who's cornered the water market telling people if they don't like the water they're free to drill their own aquifer? Once you take out Facebook & Google advertising spend it's a barren wasteland out there. Do publishers have a real choice?

[Aidan Regan @Aidan_Regan]

Today I counted 34 students sitting in a shared-seating space, silently staring at their smartphones. 16 years ago in the same space (the smoking area @ucddublin ), all you could hear was talk & laughter among students. The smartphone addiction is killing society #BlackMirror

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Boston Dynamics’ newest robot learns to open doors https://t.co/9QjETvKN2r

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

Damn it, just when I was starting to think I might get off scot-free from this whole cold season, one sneeks up on me and heads straight for the chest like a ravenous snot tiger.

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

This is such important news to address the housing crisis in London. Well done Sadiq Khan for biting the bullet. https://t.co/P4zqqyHnbs

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

I’ve announced a landmark step towards offering Londoners ‘first dibs’ on all new homes under £350,000 for up to a month, with sales ringfenced to UK buyers for three months before they are marketed overseas. https://t.co/ld8j7l1pD3

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

@realDonaldTrump Without the NHS, I wouldn't be alive today. It might be under strain but it works, especially with a life-threatening condition like Cystic Fibrosis. Maybe if you'd experienced our fantastic UK healthcare you'd come to a different conclusion too. PS it was an NHS solidarity march

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

Nothing quite like going for a tasty meal only to experience a freak oxygen-cannula snapping accident just before said meal has begun. Cue awesome gig economy: one uber straight home. One Deliveroo for a Hache Bavarian burger direct to my door. And lots of laboured breathing.

[Charles Grant @CER_Grant]

Yes I am clear, and the recording has confirmed what I say I said. My problem is with @Jacob_Rees_Mogg's inaccurate question, more than with @SteveBakerHW's response, which I found incomprehensible.....@CER_EU https://t.co/3xiTKBT1UI

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

I asked my GP which Flu jab I'd had in November: like many it was the cheaper 3-strain jab (as recommended by their CCG), doesn't cover 'Japanese' flu, responsible for half of hospital flu admissions. Lovely GP procured 4-strain jab, and am now (better) covered. So worth asking!

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

@DrFrancesRyan @nottmhospitals So sorry to hear you’ve been so badly affected by it. Wishing you the best of luck in your recovery.

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

Great news about tonight's government U-turn. But this blatant mental-health discrimination of so many vulnerable PIP claimants should never have been allowed to take place. https://t.co/B9UhwgBrVC

[Sangeeta Enright @Zumomma]

Please could you click on this and sign it? Orkambi offers hope and better health for many of my clients, their children, colleagues and friends..and many, many others with #CysticFibrosis. Please! We are nearly at 100,000!

https://t.co/9cjnKieGll

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

Try saying the word ‘colonoscopy’ using Siri dictation on your iPhone. It takes a genius level of careful enunciation to get right, otherwise I get: “can anoscopy”, “Colin Oscar P”, “Connell Skippy”, “: Oscar P”. Trick is to enunciate like the Queen + rapidfire 1st two syllables

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

Interesting piece in the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this AM about unprecedented levels of French and British military cooperation, integration and joint deployment plans. I do hope that any upcoming Brexit doesn’t undermine or diminish such important cooperation.

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

Can someone tell me what the point of the flu jab is when government guidance was for GP surgeries to go for the cheaper, less effective version, which didn't cover the ‘Japanese’ flu B strain -- responsible for almost half of hospital cases? https://t.co/FERogWi6G2

[Adam Jacques @adamjacques88]

#ICancelledMyTripToLondon Because The Madame Tussauds waxwork of me has tiny hands. That’s fake news! My hands are actually so bigly impressive — I guarantee you there is no problem. I guarantee. Okay? Look at these hands. Are those small hands?... #covfefeforever

[Stuart Ritchie @StuartJRitchie]

Thread -> In publicity for his new book on depression, Johann Hari has repeatedly made the following claim: "between 65 and 80% of people on antidepressants are depressed again within a year". He says it in this extract: https://t.co/9CyTnG3mWw

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

So, to be clear:
1. It was Bush who did the relocation deal, not Obama
2. Central London site owned by Duke of Westminster not US
3. South London is not a shithole https://t.co/OMAjPaPAr4