Team Lithium

Clinicians & scientists striving to understand the nature of lithium to improve the treatment of psychiatric illnesses. Led by Dr David Cousins.

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

@wendyburn @rcpsych Congratulations Wendy. Truly well deserved.

[peter pratt @jppharm]

Great to hear CMA will be investigating essential pharma decision to withdraw #Priadel . https://t.co/gT5nZYOkeM Essential pharma have withdrawn their earlier decision & now re start discussion with DHSC availability and price

[Cathy Symonds @symonds_cathy]

Please, please can the right outcome happen for so many living with bipolar. A great first step #savepriadel

[Billy Kenber @billykenber]

More details here - https://t.co/N9HGNd1JP9. Cost of switching to other version of lithium previously price hiked by the same company would have been at least £16m a year and clinicians raised concerns patients could be destabilised by a switch

[Professor Ian Maidment @Prof_Ian_M]

Thanks for everyone involved - definitely positive @BipolarBlogger @FionaNaylor2 @hannhasbipolar @CizCG @RachelUTG @teamlithium @BAPsych @rcgp @rcpsych @MindCharity @Rethink_ @BipolarUK @wendyburn @WePharmacists @stevegilbertmh @MCR_mhgroup @rpharms

Pl RT #savePriadel

[CMHP @CMHPCommunity]

https://t.co/bz4X4bQuZk
Here’s a the link to the letter sent to @MattHancock regarding Priadel discontinuation.
@rpharms @rcpsych @rcgp @MindCharity @BipolarUK and several others. Thank you for the expert input @maidment_dr @ki_ciara. Let’s hope for an intervention.

[Professor Ian Maidment @Prof_Ian_M]

Letter to @MattHancock about Priadel withdrawal.

From @CMHPCommunity @rcgp @BAPsych @rcpsych @Rethink_ @BipolarUK @MindCharity @rpharms

https://t.co/E0YEf8eMNb

[Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych]

We're working with Royal Colleges and patient groups to urge @MattHancock to stop the withdrawal of lithium medicine Priadel and ensure it remains available to treat patients in the UK with bipolar disorder #savepriadel
https://t.co/Uw2QGCYc2h

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

@luke_jelen @drjmstone @UniofNewcastle I'd forgotten how many of these things we made! 1, 2 and 4 (saved for the sake of history) below... 3 was similar but housed in a box sprayed 'medical device beige'!

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

@luke_jelen @UniofNewcastle You're right... I'll relabel our plinths and admonish the curator!

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

@luke_jelen @mrc @drjmstone @mitulmehta @drjrucker @NIHRMaudsleyBRC @KingsCRF @KingsIoPPN Well deserved Luke. Fantastic news. If only it involved lithium...

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Clearly the biggest issue for #GeneralElection19 discussion is whether I have to keep living with a dammed dog...

[Aidan Moesby @TextArtist]

Huge thanks to @danielbye for getting me over the line on “I was Naked, Smelling of Rain’ , @arcstockton . Still work to do but really pleased with how it went.

[Christopher Pell @egosyntonically]

@TheLancetPsych @TheLancet @theMJA Lithium is a fascinating little ion. Some good work being done in Dundee to try and assess its role in GSK3 inhibition. https://t.co/sEzHYjnNGG

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

@rysimmons @m_wall Not wanting to worry anyone, but I think communists might have taken control of much of the internet. I've noticed a few .com sites

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

@BipolarBlogger @wendyburn Hopefully it won't be luck of the draw for too much longer https://t.co/2IO26fiyAr

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

Lithium is showing promise in this respect, at least in animal models of prostate cancer. Who knows... we may end up delivering it in to the bladder directly as suggested by Alexander Ure in 1843 for the treatment of urinary calculi. Medical advice then but not now!

[Wendy Burn CBE @wendyburn]

Take home message on photo. Anecdotally speaker started taking lithium when he developed prostate cancer. He recovered without any other treatment...(this is not medical advice) #WCP19

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

@TextArtist @weareunltd @ace_national @arcstockton @annabelturpin @danielbye @disabilityarts @PMStudioUK @TheArtHouseUK @vtillz Excellent news!! Well deserved!

[Team Lithium @teamlithium]

@strongest_smile It’s an electron thing... https://t.co/30h9vDoQjr