Scalable Medication Extraction and Discontinuation Identification from Electronic Health Records Using Large Language Models - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

People with early-onset obesity (diagnosed at age < 25 yrs) may present with more cardiometabolic abnormalities & obesity-related complications..

Early-Onset Obesity and Tirzepatide Treatment: A Post Hoc Analysis of the SURMOUNT Clinical Trials.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Systematic reviews are the ultimate symbol of the unthinking box ticking evidence synthesis machine.

I gather we've passed the point where there are now more systematic reviews of RCTs than original RCTs.

What a wonderful achievement for humankind.

Self-reported race is NOT a proxy for genetic ancestry. Don't ever use it that way, even "approximately". www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants @juddlegum.bsky.social @popular.info open.substack.com/pub/populari...

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

For years now, groups like Oxfam have warned us about a small number of men accumulating more wealth than half the world’s population

These men today are buying elections, backing fascists, and preparing to become trillionaires

By not taxing them, we invited the unfolding disaster

“A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear.”

🚨 The indefinite pause on NIH study sections & CDC public communication updates is devastating for science, public health, and our future. These decisions will have long-term consequences for research, disease prevention, and lives if they are prolonged.
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This is such a great journal cover (and journal)! https://journal.trialanderror.org/. Cover by Lieve Visser.

#journaloftrialanderror #academicpublishing

The way “global health” people have stated the value of WHO to the US (and to the world) and what’s at stake in US withdrawal from WHO has been very revealing of the strong neocolonial tendencies/undercurrents that shape how people do “global health” and how the field works.

The epidemiology of type 1 diabetes mellitus in older adults

🖇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@natureportfolio.bsky.social

A Standing Desk is not healthier than sitting. (Internat. J. Epidemiology) https://buff.ly/3Z1e6ou

ICYMI: The BMJ published a long series of Statistics Notes. They are all short essays on specific topics in medical statistics written for a broad audience of medical researchers. You could do worse than to organize a journal club based on these papers. www-users.york.ac.uk/~mb55/pubs/p...

🚀We'll launch "Global Health 2050," the 3rd report of our Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, on Oct 15 at the World Health Summit in Berlin!

The 2 launch events will stream online:

🕑2-3.30pm Berlin time www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS95...

🕔4-5.30pm Berlin time www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHl-...