Superb journey of the prosthetic heart valve by the inimitable Benoy Shah MD with vital tips including Shared Care and self-testing INR; changing trend to bio prosthesis Wessex Heart Valve Clinic BHVS Madalina Garbi Nicolas Merke Alex Felix Vass Vassiliou BSEcho…

What a great morning at the Wellcome Collection, London for our BHVS spring meeting on core knowledge in heart valve disease.

A real multi-disciplinary meeting aimed at all members of the heart team. A fantastic two days of learning.

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New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

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Yes, sending people to Rwanda will cost £400m, plus hundreds of new staff, courts, judges, airfields and planes, but we will pay for it by cutting benefits to sick, disabled and unemployed people.

Most surreal photos you'll ever see - thread 🧵

1. Eruption on Mount Etna gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky

This is dreadful

What's really sad is there must be cardiologist(s) enabling this. If you've performed a major procedure & suspect a complication, why ask a PA to make the urgent call to radiology??

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The Government absurdly plans to remove doctors from the determination as to whether someone is sick or not.

Let’s explore potential reasons why.

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*1/3* of 5-7 year olds have *unsupervised access* to social media. This is insane. Parents please take the phones off your children. It’s not a baby sitter. It’s a window into every horror humanity can imagine, and at best it’s a mindless attention hoover that teaches children to…

Yesterday we celebrated the publication of An African History of Africa.
My book is the culmination of over 7 years of travel, through more than 30 African countries.
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone.
Thank you all for your support!

There is an unmet need to evaluate current clinical practice of the use of an historically proven intervention for a disease area when in an era of the use of new treatments for the same disease area.

🤔, do clinical interventions have a ‘best by date’?

There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.