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Appalling news that Department of Health and Social Care has decided to stop funding mental health services for hospital doctors from
Monday.

When I was broken & traumatised during Covid, sessions with an NHS Practitioner Health psychologist helped me back on my feet.

How can the govt suspend this?

The vibrant bluebells are now in bloom in Highgate Wood! Now's the perfect time to enjoy this springtime magic ✨

Recently visited Highgate Wood? We'd love to see your photos! Tag us @colhighgatewood or #HighgateWood for your chance to feature 📸

:-)

Highgate Wood 1946 - 2024.

Did you know Highgate Wood is a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. It is also listed as one of only eight Green Heritage Sites in London.

#HighgateWood

It's a great recovery.

This idea is of increasing risks from reinfections is a COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDING.

That paper DOES NOT show a reinfection is more dangerous than earlier infection.

That paper —and much research— shows reinfections are statistically much less riskier than earlier ones. See next.

Spring :-)

A surprisingly small proportion of Mendelian randomization studies present data aimed at falsifying the instrumental variables assumptions the analyses depend upon. Here Louise AC Millard & Kate Tilling present a global randomization test addressing this link.springer.com/article/10.100…

“The connections that develop parkrun UK make me think of parkrun as a sort of ‘community adhesive’, bringing people together.”

Great blog piece on how parkrun can play an important role in #SocialPrescribingDay

blog.parkrun.com/uk/2024/03/13/…

Our next UCL Pharmaco-Epi Collaborative event is out! Free sign up Tues 16 April 10-12, all welcome UCL Primary Care & Population Health UCL IEHC The UCL Institute of Health Informatics UCL CEHRAM Team Prof Irene Petersen

🤔 Want to learn more about the immune system in pregnancy and early life? Interested in how this is important for health in adulthood?

💡 Join us on #WorldImmunologyDay Thursday 25th April, 6pm at The Crick!

Either in person or online. FREE tickets👇🏻

crick.ac.uk/whats-on/world…

We can't wait for our upcoming Pharmacoepidemiology Summer School 🤩
🌍 New colleagues from all over the world
🎓 International faculty
🏖️ Social program and venue by the sea

Early-bird offer ends next week (20 March) ⏰ Register here: kea.au.dk/education/summ…

#DCEsummerschool

1/6 A thank you 🧵to parkrun UK

In 2021 at 84, my dad, Leo volunteered for the 1st time Southportparkrun

In Feb 24 he volunteered his 127th and final time

He died 2 weeks later😢

He was an avid writer of thank you letters but didn't have the opportunity to thank parkrun...

Good morning :-)

Paper in The BMJ shows ultraprocessed food consumption is associated with every adverse health outcome that poor people have higher risks of than the well healed. Here Marcus Munafò explains why these associations should not be interpreted as causal bmj.com/content/384/bm…

📢 Next NASH_UCL masterclass:

Peter Tennant & Michalis Katsoulis will present

'Problems in the use of 'change scores' in causal inference'

When: Tuesday, 19th March 2024, 2.00-4.30pm

Where: B17 Basement LT, 1-19 Torrington Place WC1E 7HB

For tickets: eventbrite.com/e/problems-in-…

NEW: France's Parliament votes to make abortion a constitutional right, the first country in the world to do so.

French PM Gabriel Attal: ' We're sending a message to all women: your body belongs to you and no one can decide for you.'

Are you listening at the back!