👓 Read this new paper looking at the psychometric performance of a widely-used oral health related quality of life measure.
Our very own Georgios Tsakos is one of the authors.
Read the full paper here: lnkd.in/e3NFpNbS#OralHealth#dentalpublichealthonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thanks to the Lancet Commission on Oral Health and all co-authors. Welfare regimes influence oral health and inequalities, as well as economic development.
When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump.
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2. Your Teeth, You Are in Control: A Process Evaluation of the Implementation of a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Intervention for Reducing Child Dental Anxiety
doi.org/10.1111/cdoe...@zmarshman.bsky.social
1. A Theoretically Informed Process Evaluation in Parallel to a Feasibility Study of a Complex Oral Health Intervention Using NICE Guidelines in a Care Home Setting
doi.org/10.1111/cdoe...@ucl-dph.bsky.social
We are advertising for a Communications Officer for Equalise our new ESRC funded research centre on Lifecourse Health Equity. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🇧🇷 Brasileiras que mudaram o mundo! ✨ Johanna Döbereiner revolucionou a agricultura 🌾, Chu Ming Silveira criou o orelhão 📞, Ester Sabino e Jaqueline Góes de Jesus decifraram o coronavírus 🧬 e Therezinha Zorowich inovou com o escorredor de arroz 🍚. + 👇
PGR pede ao STJ a retirada de vínculo público de Ustra, torturador idolatrado por Bolsonaro, e Maciel, ex-agentes da ditadura. Decisão pode impactar pensões e revisar a Lei da Anistia
www.diariocarioca.com/politica/tor...
I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS.
I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
3. "Why use methods that require proportional hazards?"
@amjepi.bsky.social 2025
doi.org/10.1093/aje/...
The proportional hazards assumption is generally superfluous. We encourage the use of survival analysis methods that produce absolute risks and that don't require constant hazard ratios.
Are you planning to attend the @IADR General Session in Barcelona?
@BEHSR - Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Health Services Research Group has opened the call for young researchers to send their work.
Are you working with Global Oral Health? We are waiting for you contribution. Deadline for abstracts is 1st March. @commdentoralepi.bsky.social , @profsarahbaker.bsky.social, Prof. Maha El Tantawi and
Prof. Morenike Folayan
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Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Empresa do Rio vendeu 800 toneladas de carne podre da enchente do RS para todo país
Por @henrique-rodrigues.bsky.social
Alimento contaminado deveria ser destinado a produção de ração animal, mas firma o revendeu para consumo dos brasileiros. Dono da companhia foi preso esta manhã (22)
Controversial opinion (or not): the global burden of diseases is like nuggets, which are based on chicken. GBD is based on real data but it is not real data. Like ultra-processed food, it sells a lot and tastes good, if you do not have chicken, you go for nuggets.
Do you agree?
Thinking a lot about Trudeau's legacy for healthcare in Canada AND the country's #globalhealth role (& future)
Interesting 2024 CCPA analysis of his record - raising a usual concern of "More talk than action" besetting the Liberals on health
Will a Conservative alternative do better? I'm doubtful.
Fast food science? How can Frontiers get some high-impact factor if their editorial process is so weak? We know how: they deliver what the consumers want.
theconversation.com/a-ma-ciencia...
Some people will say that it is important that this debate be made public. Those are also supporters of preprints. I doubt that this is any good because misinformation has been spread around. A closed debate during peer review has been the standard.
After so many large clinical trials, it is unnecessary to evaluate efficacy. If such analyses disagree with the RCTs, we have problems with quality control, or application, etc. One study will never refute existing knowledge.
Fast food science? How can Frontiers get some high-impact factor if their editorial process is so weak? We know how: they deliver what the consumers want.
theconversation.com/a-ma-ciencia...
A study that would never be published in journals with strong editorial process has made a negative impact. If the editors or the reviewers were experts in the area, this would not have happened. However, not even the authors are experts in the area.
We must keep academic freedom but also to protect the whistle-blowers. Fraud and misconduct can have severe consequences. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Fox News was created to cause folks who live pay check to pay check in trailers to believe that billionaires need more money and they deserve less money for their work.
🚨 $710 Billion: Economic Burden of Oral Diseases 🚨
Oral diseases cost the world a shocking $710 billion annually. As highlighted by WHO and the World Economic Forum, this figure underscores the urgent need for decisive policy action.
See our article 👉 shorturl.at/t2KPF
🎙️Our #OralHealthMatters podcast is for everyone interested in oral health and why it matters.
Listen to Richard Watt in conversation with researchers, policymakers and activists from around the world about interventions and policies that might make a difference.
oral-health-matters.transistor.fm
‼️ Funding opportunity ‼️
The CORE programme 🌎 funds 4 training studentships for early career researchers to study for a Masters degree at @ucl-dph.bsky.social or Glasgow Dental School (& School of Health and Wellbeing)
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The number of predatory journals is difficult to accurately determine but was estimated at more than 15 000 in 2021.
What can authors, institutions, funders, and editors do?
@eloder.bsky.socialwww.bmj.com/content/388/...
AADOCR and CADR - 2025 Oral Epidemiology Forum
(Epi-Forum)
If you are a student or early career researcher, send your abstracts until February 3. Organised by BEHSR
More information here: tiny.ucsf.edu/epiforum25
Why would preprints without any quality control be a solution for the problem of lack of novelty, fraud, plagiarism, etc, if reputable journals with some control by editors and reviewers could not solve it? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
O economista Bráulio Borges tem afirmado que 50% da variação atual do câmbio vem de fatores externos. Mas a maioria dos analistas insistem no "risco fiscal".
Ninguém menciona que a alocação global de capital financeiro nos EUA/dólar é a maior desde a "bolha.com" em 2000. Que moeda aguenta isso?
As incríveis opiniões do bilionário Rubens Menin. Ele critica os juros altos pelos motivos principais pra ele: menos negócios pra sua construtora, mais inadimplência no seu banco e serviço da dívida maior pro seu clube de futebol.
O certo por linhas tortas.
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Just in time for joining Bluesky - our new issue is now out.
Featuring articles, reviews & commentaries on dental care systems, oral health policies in Africa, oral health literacy, periodontal disease in refugees, dental antibiotic policies & much more
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000528...
(1T/19min) GOOOOOLLL DO GRÊMIO!!! Pedro Gabriel recebe a bola na esquerda e manda um cruzamento com GPS na cabeça do Viery. O zagueiro sobe mais alto que todo mundo, cabeceia com categoria e corre pro abraço.
#Grêmio 2x0 Vitória da Conquista
🇪🇪 #BaseGremista#Copinha2025#Sub20