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Unfortunately, it’s completely out of our control. I’m in total agreement with you: these secondary prices are insane. This is grotesque profiteering from scalpers who contribute nothing to our tour, enabled by viagogo who also contribute nothing. The only way to end this insanity is legislation that prohibits resale for excessive profit. We’re having various conversations in the UK and the US, and elsewhere. PH
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This paper certainly takes an interesting spin on the data. The title is 'Physician Associate graduates have comparable knowledge to medical graduates' But they found a statistically significant difference between FY1s and PAs.
So how did they argue they are comparable?
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I've written round up of big news in biotech & medicine, with @NikoMcCarty
The return of screwworms, longer gene editing, rapid TB tests, a new long-acting hemophilia treatment, new DNA vaccines, a potential prion disease treatment, and more. 🧵
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We need people,buildings that function and time to do our jobs safely and well @keirStarmer , not apps. People to answer phones & help confused people.
I don't know who is advising you,but my god they need firing.
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"The difference in the UK, on your own now, separate from Europe, it's a relatively small market."
David Ricks, CEO of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, tells #R4Today 'something needs to be quite different' to make the UK interesting in the global markets after leaving the EU.
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This makes me so cross and sad. What vitamin helps with fertility, weight loss and exhaustion? Preying on vulnerability like this makes you at best a quack, at worst evil.
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It's amazing how quickly Hegseth has proven himself to be just as feckless, careless, and inept a boss as we said he would be.
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For 20 years, the Western media has blindly repeated whatever the Kremlin government says. It continues with this non-existent ceasefire. They lie because that's what they do. Stop helping them spread lies.
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‘We have specialised EDs and hospitals for children because they have different needs. Why do we not have this for older adults?’
#BGSconf
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despair @BBCr4today that was a pretty unbalanced conversation about prostate cancer screening and harms. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024vt…. this shouldn't be about what @wesstreeting etc thinks - this should be about evidence of benefit and harm
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If you were an MP on assisted death committee, would you want the full picture on potential harms?
Invited Australian witnesses reassured MPs that all was well there. BUT the former Vic Attorney General has BLISTERINGLY written to our MPs to tell them:
"It is not correct..."
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“The RCP has announced that it supports a change in nomenclature for PAs. RCP Council today (19 March 2025) has agreed that the job title of a PA should be renamed to 'physician assistant’
- RCP submission for #Lengreview
rcp.ac.uk/news-and-media/new…
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of a manufactured workforce crisis and people trying to take shortcuts in medicine. There are no shortcuts in medicine and this myth needs to be rejected whenever it is espoused. Until it is, patient safety will always be at risk, as hubris cannot replace years of training 2/2
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People call Trump a “deal-maker” and “transactional”.
But his approach to Ukraine was not a deal or a transaction - it was pure extortion. A demand for 500bn dollars with nothing on the other side
Quite predictably, they don't need any "deals," and they never wanted them.
All they need is to get rid of Zelensky and/or make Ukraine surrender.
Quite predictably, it never mattered whether Zelensky signed the ridiculous and unrealistic "minerals deal" because it was never about "$500 billion" or anything at all.
It was only needed to make it look like Ukraine is "unconstructive," "not interested in peace," and "disrespectful and unthankful," therefore it is to blame for Trump's failure to get an easy-peasy attempt to get "peace" from Putin, to which Putin promised Trump oceans of gold if he forced Ukraine to surrender and die.
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I was just invited to consider a full time clinical/educational job caring for frail patients in corridors.
The NHS is so broken that "corridor medicine" is becoming a sub-specialty.
And our MPs think now is the time to be offering our patients assisted suicide?!
Priorities!
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This - exactly this
@NHSEngland @NHSEnglandNMD very very aware there’s been a crisis for years & instead of addressing, have wilfully promoted non doctors as replacements whilst utterly neglecting resident doctors -
A strategy sadly supported by current “leaders” @RCP
Now they do a review? Too little, too late
Open up training posts now
Recognise the expertise & commitment of all these doctors before we lose them forever
#timeforchange
@wesstreeting
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This speech is full of half-truths, distortions, misleading claims and outright lies.
Basically living up to every meme, trope and unfair stereotype, of Americans being ignorant morons.
I'll go through each of the claims he made in this segment and what the actual facts are. /1
'In Britain and across Europe free speech, I fear, is in retreat'
US Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Munich security conference and took a swipe at Brussels, Germany, Sweden and the UK.
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