Ricardo Almeida-Magaña

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Scientific Paper Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, titled: Biparametric vs Multiparametric MRI for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: The PRIME Diagnostic Clinical Trial. Written by Ng et al.

Could faster MRI scans allow more men to receive timely #ProstateCancer diagnoses?

Research published in @jama.com led by @veerukasi.bsky.social, Dr Alex Ng & Dr Aqua Asif at @ucl.ac.uk compares the efficacy of shortened versus standard-length scans.

Grab a ☕ & read: doi.org/10.1001/jama...

We had a blast at the Fungi Festival debuting our new Fungi Workshop + Foraging Game! 🍄🌧 Big thanks to everyone who joined us in the rain + mud, and congrats to our game winners! We've also teamed up with the Great Science Share to create 3 fab fungi resources - check them out here: buff.ly/bK2LCnZ

Current "informed consent" policies on PSA-screening lead to higher incidence of metastatic prostate cancer in socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11

“If you want to see the ocean, you have to cut the land”. 📊

(So glad to find a cartography post in the hot feed)

An illumination from a Medieval Manuscript that shows a character bearing a striking resemblance to Yoda, a small green humanoid wearing an orange cloak. 📜 Royal 10 E IV, f. 30

A long time ago in a manuscript far, far away....

Happy #StarWarsDay! – #MayTheFourthBeWithYou, always.

Prostate cancer, race and the need for tests | Letters Letter: Suks Minhas and Ben Challacombe say it is important to acknowledge health inequalities faced by Black men and ethnic minorities in the UK

Prostate cancer, race and the need for tests | Letters

GU Cast celebrates these two excellent clinical trials run in the NHS supported by @nihr.bsky.social #TRANSLATE #NEUROSAFE MEDIA both presented in plenary #EAU25, both published @thelancetoncol.bsky.social 😀👏

New Research: A phase 3 trial assessing NeuroSAFE-guided robot-assisted radical prostatectomy vs standard robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in #prostatecancer for nerve-sparing surgery and erectile function recovery

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Pictured is an annotated version of a fold-out map which was included in early editions of the Lord of The Rings. The map shows readers Tolkien’s fantasy world ‘Middle-earth’. The annotations are by Tolkien himself, and were for the benefit of Pauline Baynes, an artist who was creating an illustrated poster map of Middle-earth. Baynes ripped the map out of her own 1954 copy of Lord of the Rings and took it to Tolkien, who covered it with notes, including many extra place names that do not appear in the book. Since most were in his own invented Elvish language he helpfully translated some: ‘Eryn Vorn [= Black Forest] a forest region of dark [pine?] trees.’ The annotations give an insight into how vividly Tolkien pictured Middle-earth in his mind, and how thorough his research was. They include a series of geographical pointers about the latitude of key locations: ‘Hobbiton is assumed to be approx. at latitude of Oxford,’. ‘Minas Tirith is about latitude of Ravenna (but is 900 miles east of Hobbiton more near Belgrade). Bottom of the map (1,400 miles) is about latitude of Jerusalem.’ Pictured: MS. Tolkien Drawings 132. copyright Tolkien Estate / Williams College Oxford Programme 2018

Happy #TolkienReadingDay to all who celebrate! Please enjoy this map of Middle Earth, annotated by the man himself and including several locations not mentioned in the books:

Effect of NeuroSAFE-guided RARP versus standard RARP on erectile function and urinary continence in patients with localised prostate cancer (NeuroSAFE PROOF): a multicentre, patient-blinded, randomise... Sparing the periprostatic neurovascular bundles during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) improves postoperative erectile function and early …

Excited to finally share the primary results of the NeuroSAFE PROOF trial! Huge thanks to our incredible team and, most importantly, the patients who made this research possible.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Building on this morning’s #NeuroSAFE data, @nikhilmayor.bsky.social presents late-breaking results from #IP8FLUORESCE, assessing the diagnostic accuracy of FCM for detecting positive margins intra-op

Feasible, quick and good sensitivity and specificity for detecting margins ≥3mm!

#EAU25 🇪🇸

Prostate cancer surgery breakthrough offers hope for erectile function Neurosafe procedure allows doctors to remove prostate while preserving as much nerve tissue around it as possible A more precise form of prostate cancer surgery nearly doubles the chances of men retaining erectile function afterwards compared with standard surgery, according to the first comprehensive trial of the procedure. Doctors in five UK hospitals assessed the surgical approach that aims to preserve crucial nerves that run through the outer layer of the prostate and are thought to be responsible for producing erections. Continue reading...

Prostate cancer surgery breakthrough offers hope for erectile function

Dear all, if you're a doctor/other healthcare professional, pls help our Dutch colleagues with a question that bedevils us all 👿
How/when/do you change a urinary cath when you've diagnosed infection?

Short survey <2 min
#IDSky #UTISky #Clinmicro #MedSky #CAUTI #AMS #AMR @merellambregts.bsky.social

Next up: PhD Fellow @ajwlight.bsky.social presents an update from the multicentre blinded #IP8FLUORESCE study evaluating #ConfocalMicroscopy for margin status in #RadicalProstatectomy - recruitment complete and results out on Monday 24/03 at #EAU25 🇪🇸

I'm excited to announce that we’ll be presenting the much-anticipated results of the *NeuroSAFE PROOF trial* at *EAU25 in Madrid*!

🗓 *Date:* Monday, March 24, 2025
🕙 *Time:* 10:00 AM
📍 *Location:* Green Area, eURO Auditorium 1

Join us at this Game Changer Session

📢 LESS THAN ONE WEEK LEFT

"We welcome applications from a range of experience levels, from senior trainees to junior trainees to house officers or medical students"

- Mr @veerukasi.bsky.social, BURST Director

🗓️ Apply by Feb 28th: redcap.slms.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=3...

#BURST10 #UroSoMe

Re: Creta, M., Shariat, S.F., Marra, G. et al. Local salvage therapies in patients with radio-recurrent prostate cancer following external beam radiotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis (2024). A. Pati-Alam, M. Fittall, J. Withington and S. Heavey.

How does #prostatecancer recur after radiotherapy?

Alisha Pati-Alam, Susan Heavey and the team at UCL highlight this key question in their commentary of an important new meta-analysis on salvage therapies.

Grab a ☕and read more: doi.org/10.1038/s413...

"If you are going to write a scientific paper for publication, you are also going to have to write a response to reviewers". Advice on "How to write a response to reviewers" from a group of editors who've ready many, many thousands of such responses. www.europeanurology.com/article/S030...

Feathers McGraw (a penguin with a rubber glove for a hat, or a chicken depending on who you ask) stands outside the entrance of The Museum of English Rural Life.

we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience

Thoughts on Brain Size, Birth, and the Ignorance of Obscene Wealth 2025 is going to be a bumpy ride

Thoights on brain size, birth, and the ignorance of obscene wealth open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Patient-centered pathology reports improved patients' understanding of prostate biopsy results and their ability to accurately assess their cancer diagnosis and risk level, compared to standard pathology reports.

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Bonus effect. When a drug for diabetes significantly reduces kidney stones, results of a randomized trial of empagliflozin (Jardiance), a SGLT-2 inhibitor, in people without diabetes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Walmart Effect New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

Researchers found “that the costs Walmart imposes in the form of not only lower earnings but also higher unemployment in the wider community outweigh the savings it provides for shoppers.”

Protected cycle lane approved for West End: historic first for Westminster — Westminster Cycling

About time! And great news for everyone who commutes in central London
www.westminstercycling.org.uk/c43-approval

Predicting Prostate Cancer Death with Different Pretreatment Risk Stratification Tools: A Head-to-head Comparison in a Nationwide Cohort Study Numerous pretreatment risk classification tools are available for prostate cancer. Which tool is best in predicting prostate cancer death is unclear.T…

This one might help www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Vitally important study with NPV>96% for clinically significant prostate cancer. How many other cancer diagnostics have reached this level to spare patients invasive procedures while identifying those that need interventions?

PRKAR1A

#PathSky 34M with a jet-black mass next to the seminal vesicle. Melanoma? A very occasional psammoma body was present, and expression of PRKAR1A was completely lost. Malignant melanotic nerve sheath tumor (previously “melanotic schwannoma”) in an unusual location.