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History always has a lesson.

Anaesthetists at two London Trusts organised themselves and got a 50% rise to their extracontractual rates. We can do the same across London for all grades and all specialties if we act together. Join the BMA London Scrap The Cap campaign here today: www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... @BMA.org.uk ✊💙🧡

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

Still stand with 🇺🇦. You don’t buy security by appeasement. Churchill, Michael Foot, Bevin, Roosevelt, Ike, Eden, Reynaud, De Gaul, Harriman, Stephenson, the Young Kennedys, Murrow, Beneš all knew. There’s a stain that you won’t wash out. It won’t ever wash out.

Great work, helpfully advancing therapeutic/ curative options for this massive group of patients.

Senate Republicans just voted down an amendment that would have stopped cuts to Medicaid from being used to pay for tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. They’re throwing working families under the bus again.

Most viewed in the last 7 days from JAMA: US states that adopted abortion bans had higher than expected infant mortality after the bans took effect. https://ja.ma/3X711tB

Beautiful journal club referencing the 1963 paper by Randle.

Meanwhile, so much for “free speech” over at The Bad Place.

Very helpful article on the importance of considering and addressing vaginal symptoms during and after the menopause transition in @theguardian.com supported by @kingscollegenhs.bsky.social colleague @haithamhamoda.bsky.social

Bravo. We have to make it clear in a million ways that we object

It’s day 25 of #Veganuary! Did you know that some people can reverse their type 2 diabetes on a whole food plant based diet?

NEW: Why not calling a Nazi salute a Nazi salute puts us in a whole new place of danger. We have to call spades spades or what else is there? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

I know what I saw.

It’s day 9 of #veganuary! Reduce your cancer risk, #chooseplants! Read more in the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Day 7 of #Veganuary! Think about the impact of your diet, not just close to home but across the globe.

We’ve all to have an eye on this. Eroding people’s pay so much they damage their pensions is a narrow minded fool’s/ politician’s dream. The can is kicked so far down the road as to be almost, only almost invisible. Do not destroy the future to half-pay for the present… ecologically or financially.

More from the picket line #SaveTheObserver @gonuj.org

Today I’m on strike. For journalism without fear or favour; for the future of the Guardian; and most of all for our beloved newspaper The Observer, 233 years old today, being put at existential by its billionaire owner. Happy birthday to The Observer 🎂❤️.

@emilytownsend.bsky.social HSJ Emily Townsend?

Despite encouraging progress in the global #HIV effort, the Sustainable Development Goal of ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030 is not on track. Ahead of #WorldAIDSDay, our latest Editorial explores the triumphs and threats of HIV in 2024. Read this & more in our new issue: bit.ly/4fL2ugz

The response to Chris Hoy's call for wider access to prostate cancer screening has been largely uncritical. But few things are quite as vexed as screening for prostate cancer, says @mgtmccartney.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...

This practice article summarises updated NICE guidance on recognition, diagnosis and management of #meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal disease www.bmj.com/content/387/...