Claim https://twitter.com/search?q=assocation%20vascular%20access&src=typd (lack of) evidence on shaving for giving birth  clipping is less harmful than shaving  however-  is not clipping better than clipping?: trials that compared clipping with shaving  Six trials, two of which had three comparison arms, (972 participants) compared hair removal (shaving, clipping, or depilatory cream) with no hair removal and found no statistically significant […]

2019-01-02 Complaint Notification (external) Babylon have (again) agreed to change their inaccurate and misleading advertising. https://www.asa.org.uk/codes-and-rulings/rulings.html?q=babylon#informally-resolved

Daily Telegraph on antibiotics  Which? on online GP services

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2008-11-11b.44WS.1 BMJ  2011  http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/59499/1/59499.pdf https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1702 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/public-health-england-and-drinkaware-launch-drink-free-days https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23061575   https://www.diabetes.org.uk/get_involved/corporate/acknowledgements/britvic-partnership

https://dtb.bmj.com/content/53/3/33?hwoasp=authn%3A1547504957%3A4130220%3A1377238353%3A0%3A0%3AsXIQ8AP4kAnvG2tXr3D%2FRw%3D%3D https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5883.full https://dtb.bmj.com/content/53/3/33

www.cochrane.org/CD004022/HTN_effect-low-salt-diet-blood-pressure-and-some-hormones-and-lipids-people-normal-and-elevated-blood https://www.cochrane.org/CD009217/VASC_reduced-dietary-salt-prevention-cardiovascular-disease https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2018/12/05/bjsports-2018-099921 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31376-X/abstract

free link to Globe and Mail essay 

RCGP Council 24/11/18   1) sponsorship review – This is being revisited. Sam Finnikin and I wrote a letter and asked that it was passed to each Trustee Board member and all officers. In the interests of transparency I have linked to it here. It includes an evaluation of the conference. RCGP Glasgow conference October 2018 […]

relative risks – ace inhibitors https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4209 https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/certain-blood-pressure-drugs-linked-to-increased-risk-of-lung-cancer/ https://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(10)01387-9/pdf 3,186 events in 335,135 patients using ACEI (0.95%) 266 events in 29,008 patients using ARB (0.91%)     Control event rate= 0.0091 FOR ARB Experimental event rate=  0.0095 FOR acei ARR =  0.0004 (0.04% absolute risk difference)   whole cohort 7,952 lung cancer events in 992, 061 patients.  […]

For the last 18 years, I have been writing about/protesting about the private screening companies who mislead people into either non evidence based testing, or screening which is already available on the NHS for free. over this time numerous complaints have been upheld by the @ASA_UK , but not the @gmcuk (funny that, since their […]