Ash Paul
Public Hlth Dr,interested in evid-based health services commissioning,clinical leadership & hlth policy.My views are my own,RTs are no endorsements
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Association of Skipping Breakfast With Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality
JACC: Journal of the American College of Cardiology 10h 3 tweets
Background Skipping breakfast is common among U.S. adults. Limited evidence suggests that skipping breakfast is associated with atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Objectives The authors sought to examine the association of skipping...
Preventing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care
Aafp.org 21m 1 tweets
Taking specific steps to make diagnosis more reliable is something we should all consider. We will never be perfect, but we owe it to our patients and our profession to improve. A diagnostic checklist is included.
Ash Paul Preventing Diagnostic Errors in Primary Care via 21m
Theresa May warned her post-Brexit immigration strategy could close quarter of NHS services
The Telegraph 8h 2 tweets
NHS executives have described Theresa May’s post-Brexit immigration strategy as the “most destructive policy proposal for NHS recruitment” amid fears it could force some hospitals to close “25 per cent of services”, The Telegraph can disclose.
Ash Paul Theresa May warned her post - #Brexit immigration strategy could close quarter of services via 35m
Skeptical Scalpel
Skepticalscalpel.blogspot.com 7h 1 tweets
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." Oscar Wilde
The Art of Killing a Superbug
Nature Research Microbiology Community 5h 2 tweets
The Perfect Predator, an exciting new book, is a chilling and inspiring account of a couple's heroic struggle for survival, against an incurable infection
Ash Paul The Art of Killing a Superbug via 51m
The Real Cause of Deadly Medical Errors
Scientific American Blog Network 8h 1 tweets
Individuals do make lethal mistakes, but the main reason for preventable medical mistakes is a health care system inadequate to the complexities of 21st-century medicine
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Ash Paul Prof wrote an eloquent article on subj in 2016 'Real Cause of Deadly Medical Errors': Main reason for preventable medical mistakes is a health care system inadequate to the complexities of 21st-century medicine 8h
Why radiologists won’t be replaced by deep learning
Radiology Business 8h 2 tweets
Ash Paul Why radiologists won’t be replaced by deep learning via 8h
Companies are 'making up excuses' to thwart plastic bottle recycling scheme
The Independent 8h 1 tweets
'Lobbying behind the scenes must not be allowed to derail the most ambitious and comprehensive scheme from being introduced,' says Marine Conservation Society
Ash Paul UK Companies are 'making up excuses' to thwart plastic bottle recycling scheme, says via 8h
Children ‘threatening to stab and kick pregnant teachers’ as pupil violence increases amid funding cuts
The Independent 9h 1 tweets
Pupil indiscipline is a ‘worsening problem’ in schools amid funding cuts, teachers say
Ash Paul Children ‘threatening to stab and kick pregnant teachers’ as pupil violence increases amid funding cuts in UK via 9h
Woman wakes up from vegetative state after 28 years
The Independent 9h 1 tweets
'I never gave up on her because I always had a feeling that one day she would wake up,' her son says
Ash Paul Woman wakes up from vegetative state after 28 years via 9h
The settled status scheme could be putting victims of domestic abuse at risk
The Independent 9h 1 tweets
The Home Office launched its EU settlement scheme at the end of March, but the application process leaves some non-UK citizens in a particularly vulnerable position. Emily Goddard reports
Ash Paul The settled status scheme could be putting victims of domestic abuse at risk in UK via 9h
Warming climate has grown UK economy 10% in past 50 years, but shrunk the poorest by a third
The Independent 9h 1 tweets
Big emitters like UK, Norway and Canada have seen economic benefits of warming temperatures since 1960, while nations like Sudan and India have suffered
Ash Paul Warming climate has grown UK economy 10% in past 50 years, but shrunk the poorest by a third via 9h
NZ’s deadly public health battle
Newsroom 7d 5 tweets
A new book explores a vacuum of public health leadership, the appalling state of public health, and the influence of lobby groups .
Ash Paul NZ’s deadly public health battle via 9h
Selfie From Top Of Everest ‘Destroys Flat Earth Theory Once And For All’
Physics-Astronomy.org 9h 1 tweets
In a Reddit post simply captioned: ‘ Checkmate flat Earth society ’ user amazed spirit shared an image of him or someone they know posing ...
Ash Paul Selfie From Top Of Everest ‘Destroys Flat Earth Theory Once And For All’ via 9h
Measuring the health of nations: analysis of mortality amenable to health care
PubMed Central (PMC) 14h 1 tweets
Objective To assess whether and how the rankings of the world's health systems based on disability adjusted life expectancy as done in the 2000 World Health Report change when using the narrower concept of mortality amenable to health care, an...
Ash Paul Yup, Prof has written reams on the subject 'Does healthcare save lives? Avoidable mortality revisited' & Measuring the health of nations: analysis of mortality amenable to health care 14h
The book
EN Testing Treatments interactive 28d 2 tweets
This page is about the book, Testing Treatments. You can read online in full text, download a PDF or listen to the audio book.
The inconvenient truth about genetics and success
New York Daily News - nydailynews.com 4d 9 tweets
Some of us are born with genes that make us struggle to lose weight and keep it off. This was the conclusion of a new genetics study published this week, where scientists analyzed information from over 2 million locations in people’s genetic code....
Prevalence of heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and combined hyperlipidemia phenotype in very young survivors of myocardial infarction and... - PubMed - NCBI
Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 17h 1 tweets
J Clin Lipidol. 2019 Mar 11. pii: S1933-2874(19)30042-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2019.02.007. [Epub ahead of print]
Can The Obesity Epidemic Be Reversed -- Or Does Obesity Represent A New Stage In Human Evolution?
Forbes 18h 1 tweets
Americans consume on average 500 more calories per day than they did in the late 1970s.
Nobel prizes for individual scientists are an anachronism – Brian Keating | Aeon Essays
Aeon 5d 3 tweets
Science today is an intricate, collaborative, global enterprise. Nobel prizes for individual scientists are an anachronism
Ash Paul Time to update the : Science today is an intricate, collaborative, global enterprise. Nobel prizes for individual scientists are an anachronism via 18h