https://www.jmir.org/2018/4/e150/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0141076818761383

DCIS: many breast ‘cancers’ behave benignly – e.g. some 94% survival at 20 years after diagnosis with no symptoms https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2634502 before breast cancer screening only a few percent of all breast cancers diagnosed were DICS after screening introduced – 20-25% of all breast cancers classed as DCIS https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/441318/nhsbsp66.pdf very little known about natural history of […]

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 […]