A helpful scoping review on #prehab in #radonc from Laure Marignol

Heterogeneity (diseases, interventions and outcome assessments) a problem in the evidence but enough signal in the noise to keep pushing.

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Congratulations to Liz Sampson on this wonderful paper

Can anyone point me towards a paper around duration of efficacy of PET in older females with breast cancer, that is more recent than 2014? Most leaflets still say 30-50% 3-5years Richard Simcock Cassandra Ng SIOG

Congratulations Grace!

Here's our Easter hols🎶

It's named 'We're Tory' - a satire about the outgoing government, parodying #ThisIsMe (The Greatest Showman)

Dedicated to all good Tory councillors/MPs who'll be ousted in May local elections & the General Election #nottheirfault

👉youtu.be/OnYN_c8CYGM

Tomorrow the clocks go forward, and as evenings are becoming darker later, some people with #dementia may experience #sundowning . ⏰

We've put together some advice on how to manage and prevent sundowning. ☀️

Visit our website to learn more: dementiauk.org/information-an…

Our paper in The BMJ reports a dose-response relationship in delirium episodes and rates of subsequent dementia among >650K inpatients in NSW Australia. Reducing #delirium could be effective in #dementia prevention. Emily Gordon Shlomo Berkovsky Prof Ruth E Hubbard bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Fascinating study suggests 1/8th of hospitalized patients diagnosed with pneumonia probably do not have pneumonia--Over diagnosis particularly common in those with dementia. Lead to inappropriate antibiotics and failure to treat real cause of illness. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Dunhill Medical Trust have a vacancy on the Research Grants Committee and would particularly welcome applications from clinician researchers dunhillmedical.org.uk/about-us/vacan… The Dunhill Medical Trust

📢New BGS Joint Position Statement📢 Important information enabling safe decisions about which patients taking anticoagulation or antiplatelet treatment need to go to hospital and receive a CT scan after sustaining a head injury via NICE guidelines rcem.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

We’re delighted to be launching GMEC at the British Geriatrics Society Spring Meeting on Friday 24th May #BGSConf 🔥
Come along if you’re interested in #GerisMedEd - open to all, in-person and online ✨
More details coming soon… 👀
With Dr Grace Pearson 🇺🇦💙🇪🇺 (she/her) Rebecca Winter Ellen Tu 👯‍♀️

NHS Research Scotland are hosting monthly lunchtime webinars on ageing.
(not just for Scots, or academics)

Want to hear the latest in ageing research, join us
Tuesday 26th March 12.00-1300 (UK)

Our first speaker is Miles Witham
Register: tinyurl.com/48twek3h

Delirium means less, not more, physical activity in hospitalized geriatric patients. Thanks to Alessandro Morandi and Kristin Taraldsen!
Leiv Otto Watne, Bjørn Erik Neerland, dirtycam link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Cochrane UK Before it’s gone for good need to thank the truly fantastic Sarah Chapman for bringing Cochrane #dementia diagnostic test accuracy #research to accessible understandable life using LEGO evidentlycochrane.net/assessed-for-d… Cochrane UK Students4BE Dr Terry Quinn💙 #IQCODE

What are the priorities for research of older people living in their own home, including those living with frailty?

Let’s find out, in this review in Age_and_Ageing from Andrew Clegg, Karen Spilsbury 💚💙💛 and others.

On priorities and unmet needs. Read on…

academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

EAMA cohort number 15. 45 future geriatrician leaders from 17 countries including Rebecca Winter and Natalie Cox from the UK.

“We work with evidence b(I)ased medicine” EAMA

Cue everyone at EAMA rushing out to buy strawberries and capers following an excellent talk by Prof Andreas Simm