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Join us for #OnlyConnect25 celebrating the power of #intergenerational and inclusive practice/research - hosted at Newlyn Art Gallery, with an expedition to Potager Garden for a magical evening meal.

Get ready to connect, make, talk, wonder and look beyond the horizon to what is possible.

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Graphic showing a headshot of YHEC's Mick Arber. The wording reads: Senior Information Specialist, Mick Arber. There is a quote from Mick: "The challenges you meet for each review are different each time and, usually, there's no single correct way to meet that challenge. What we're always trying to achieve is the sweet spot, the balance of robustness and efficiency that is appropriate to the particular project." The YHEC logo is in the bottom right corner.

👋 Meet Mick Arber, Senior Information Specialist at YHEC.

With 25+ years in health information and evidence synthesis, Mick brings expertise in robust, high-quality literature searching.

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#EvidenceBasedMedicine #MedLibs

The doctor fighting for women's health on Ukraine's front line Dr Baksheiev, a gynaecologist, travels to front-line areas in his kitted out mobile clinic.

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This involves thinking about systematic reviews through a hermeneutic lens involving background understanding, lived experience, practical understanding (phronesis), and interpretive activity towards a fusion of horizon between researchers and the policymaker, and other stakeholders (2/2)

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In this paper we aim to show how undertaking a #systematicreview in collaboration with a policymaker can be framed as a hermeneutic process, improving relevance for policy and challenging the conventional rule following account of #systematicreviews (1/2): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Menstruation & Menopause as Reproductive Justice Issues: Feminist Reflections on Activism, Research, & Policy from the Global Movement's Scottish Hub

Bettina Bildhauer & Marcy Karin

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If you were at the #NHSConfedExpo yesterday you might have heard Kath Bainbridge talking about this in the panel session "Individually rare, collectively common: closing the health inequality gap in rare diseases"

Also, framework which maps inequities onto patient pathway to follow soon...

Evidence of inequities experienced by the rare disease community with respect to receipt of a diagnosis and access to services: a scoping review of UK and international evidence - Orphanet Journal of ... Background People with a rare disease find it difficult to obtain a diagnosis and access appropriate services. Evidence suggests that this can lead to health inequity amongst the rare disease communit...

Our latest paper: Evidence of #inequities experienced by the #raredisease community with respect to receipt of a diagnosis and access to services: a scoping review of UK and international evidence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Protocol: What works to increase the use of evidence for policy decision‐making: A systematic review This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows: Our aim is to collect, assess, and synthesise all the available empirical evidence on what works to support evide...

Interesting Campbell protocol - What works to increase the use of evidence for policy decision-making: A systematic review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ministers commit to £86bn for ‘breakthrough’ UK science and tech R&D Mayors welcome £500m set aside for regional authorities to target investment locally

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Naga Munchetty: My first period made me faint - but doctors said it was normal The journalist described having to throw up while presenting BBC Breakfast due to the pain of adenomyosis

“When I started my period at 15, I passed out, threw up, was petrified about what was happening and was told it was normal.”

When world's collide - spotted in the @hayfestival.bsky.social bookshop

Naga Munchetty's important book on the women's health crisis cites our recent #systematicreview of #primarycare clinicians’ perspectives on interacting with patients with #gynaecological conditions

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The reproducibility and interpretability of academic Ai search engines like Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, Scopus Ai and more A blog about academic librarianship. Covers discovery, open access and other hot trends by a librarian in Singapore.

Interesting blog post by Aaron Tay on the reproducibility and interpretability of academic Ai search engines musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

Expert judgement in systematic reviews for policy: reflections from a hermeneutic perspective on current practice and AI Systematic reviews seek to use methods which are defined in advance in a protocol and carried out without deviation. However, in reality we are often interpreting these methods using our expert jud…

In this blog post we summarise our recent paper which uses hermeneutics to explore expert judgement in systematic reviews for policy, and explore what this means for using AI in systematic reviews.

We hope you find it considered and thought-provoking!
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

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Excited to see our paper "Framing #systematicreviews commissioned by policymakers as a hermeneutic process" published in Methodological Innovations -- a methodological commentary which uses hermeneutics to understand how reviewers and policy teams work together journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

It's Rare Disease Day. Over 350 million people live with a rare condition globally. But rare disease is poorly taught about in medical education leaving doctors unable to support their patients. So we are raising awareness amongst healthcare professionals #ShowYourStripes

You can read the full report here (2/2): zenodo.org/records/1489...

England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2025: annexes

The England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2025 is published today and includes an annex with a summary of our scoping review of inequities relating to diagnosis and access to services for people with a rare disease (1/2) #RareDiseaseDay2025 www.gov.uk/government/p...

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🌍 Today is #RareDiseaseDay 2025!

We stand with the 300 million people worldwide living with rare diseases.
By coming together, we can raise awareness, drive change, and work toward a more inclusive and equitable future!

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#RareDiseaseDay2025

A digital illustration compares equality vs. equity using three individuals of different heights and abilities reaching for apples on a tree. On the left, labeled "Equality," all three individuals stand on identical platforms, but the shortest person and the person with a mobility aid still cannot reach the apples. On the right, labeled "Equity," each person is given a different number of platforms based on their individual needs, allowing all of them to reach the apples. The image is branded with The Ehlers-Danlos Society’s logo, reinforcing the message of fairness in healthcare access for people with rare diseases.

TODAY is #RareDiseaseDay! 💙💚💜

Across the world, our #raredisease community is sharing our colors and demanding equity for the 300 million people living with a rare disease.

But what’s the difference between equality and equity?

Projection of the 'Rare Disease Day' logo on the facade of Magdalen College Chapel.

Last night, the chapel facade of Magdalen College was lit up ahead of #RareDiseaseDay.

A disease is classed as rare when it affects fewer than 1 in 2000 people and there are over 3.5 million people living with a rare condition in the UK alone.

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Twitter (X) and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Characterizing the Most Amplified, Influential, and Connected Voices Driving Twitter Discourse About Tobacco Regulatory Policy From September 2019 to July 2021

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Commercial influences on patient and public involvement: a renewed call for research and action Abstract. Patient and public involvement is increasingly advocated in health policy, research and practice. Patients and people with lived experience, care

Our commentary on commercial influences on patient & public involvement is out today @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of special issue on the #CDoH. We hope to stimulate discussion & debate (& hopefully meaningful action) in this area

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Evaluation of sex differences in the receipt of concomitant atrial fibrillation procedures during nonmitral cardiac surgery Women are less likely to receive guideline-recommended cardiovascular care, but evaluation of sex-based disparities in cardiac surgical procedures is …

Another example of sex differences in quality of care - women less likely to receive guideline-recommended care during surgery www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For those not working in academia, how do you access peer reviewed research, if at all? How would you like to? How can academics get better at sharing findings?

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What thing I've learned from working in academia for the last 23 years is that we're given a special gift of trying to make the world a better place, on a micro and macro level.
That we're able to do that by improving ourselves but it should never come at the expense of others.