Parkinson's Disease is synonomyous with aging--most patients in 70s, 80s, 90s
Yet RCT of a new treatment for PD has an age cutoff of 75.
Seriously? How did this get through IRB?
Time to put a stop to Ageism in medical research
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We’re looking for new trustees here The King's Fund. Keen to hear from people from a wide range of backgrounds and careers. Closing date 3rd May and more details here kingsfund.org.uk/about-us/jobs/…

Dr Marjory Warren was a co-founder of the BGS and her work is credited with the formalisation of geriatrics as a medical specialty within the NHS. Find out more about her here bgs.org.uk/marjory-warren

There's never been a disease-modifying drug for Parkinson's disease to slow its progression. Now there may be two emerging.
—GLP-1
nejm.org/doi/abs/10.105… NEJM
—anti-synuclein antibody nature.com/articles/s4159…
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Increase in wastewater SARS CoV2 viral load in Bangalore in April
Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India Farah Ishtiaq 🐦(^o^)

Important question here from the brilliant Jenni Burton 💙💚

Brilliant finding. ReconditionTheNation #ReconditionTheNation

Today’s GMC report on why UK doctors are considering moving abroad to practice is important. Far more must be done to ensure the retention of doctors in our health service.

Read the full statement from our President: rcpe.ac.uk/college/colleg… Andrew Elder

If you haven’t looked at all the wonderful things people and teams have done to #ReconditionTheNation ReconditionTheNation please check on Elective & Emergency Care Improvement Support Team Futures NHS page and AcademyOfFabStuff and a huge thanks to Dr Theresa Porrett Roy Lilley 💙 for your support to #PreventDeconditioning ever since 2016.

Congrats Laxmi

1 week to go! Register now for the BGS Wales Spring Meeting 2024. 18-19 April in Wrexham and online. Programme highlights include #Cardiology , #Fraility and #PalliativeMedicine .
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Amazing topic and better still is the chance to work with the amazing leaders Prof Vicki Goodwin MBE and Andrew Clegg British Geriatrics Society

The BMJ As usual, my writing gives much credit to the work of others. My reference list cites: RoyalCollegeObsGyn Alcohol Change UK Centre for Perioperative Care AoMRC AoMRCTrainees The Royal College of Surgeons of England World Health Organization (WHO) Ramani The BMJ We can all learn from others.

Long COVID more common after reinfection.

This specifically applies to Omicron.

Although individually less severe at the outset, the large number of reinfections amounts to significant subsequent Long COVID burden in the population.

idsociety.org/covid-19-real-… via IDSA

PROGRAMMING project (PROmoting GeRiAtric Medicine in countries where it is still eMergING ia ) has launched a survey aiming to map the educational interests and needs of current and future healthcare professionals in the field of care for older people. cost-programming.eu/survey/

Fabulous work ReconditionTheNation

So looking forward to hearing the inimitable Roy Lilley 💙 at the Move it or Lose it conference in September. Come join us. I’m sure you’ll be enthralled, educated & entertained in equal measure! AcademyOfFabStuff

A new Age_and_Ageing systematic review analysing care outcomes in long-term care found 62% of included studies demonstrated disparities in care outcomes for minoritised groups compared to majority groups in long-term care. Read this blog via Bruyère. bruyere.org/en/Blog/care-r…

We know the skills doctors need to work with care home residents: now we need to think about how to deliver them Rachael Carroll bjgp.org/content/74/741…