Margaret McCartney

A few years ago, Grail launched NHS trial of Galleri 50 cancer test, despite concerns from experts about its sensitivity as @mgtmccartney.bsky.social & I reported for @bmj.com & the BBC.

Today investors were told main endpoint- a statistically significant drop in Stage III–IV cancers was not met

CMA investigation private dentistry following one on vets. thetimes.com/business/compa…
Treating healthcare as a market doesn't work.
From 2016: GP is going to do a dentist-still headed that way
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(medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreftreforevide… opening for booking soon)

Screening: Evidence and Practice Abstract. Muir Gray, Anne Mackie and Angela Raffle have been at the forefront of achieving improvements in UK screening over recent years, and they bring a

It’s from academic.oup.com/book/25046

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hurrah

where are all my friends

Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare - 5th Feb in St Andrews.
Screening can be confusing, numbers, ethics, communication....PSA, whole body scans, influencers telling you to get bloods for 'wellbeing'...

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How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men David Cameron has joined the King as the latest public figure to disclose his diagnosis of prostate cancer. In an interview with the Times this week, the former British prime minister revealed that,…

Prostate cancer, left alone, often does not affect male lifespans. We should be careful not to increase diagnosis rates without actually stopping men dying of the disease | Margaret McCartney

thanks Caroline. as ever it will be whether the tests leads to real world improvements for women, or whether it picks up minor / no consequential issues vs leads to helpful better diagnosis and better care..... hope all well with you

Media coverage and PATHFINDER2: hype, simplification, and free advertising The recent media coverage of interim results from the PATHFINDER2 study of GRAIL's Galleri multicancer detection blood test exemplifies a troubling and recurring trend in science communication: the co...

"Media coverage and PATHFINDER2: hype, simplification, and free advertising". Commentary on new GRAIL Galleri study published in: @thelancetoncol.bsky.social
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From @mgtmccartney.bsky.social @paulpharoah.bsky.social, Sullivan,Houlston,Aggarwal,Schuh,Hogarth,Callister

The UK media is overstating the benefits of prostate specific antigen tests, which can result in risk without benefit.

Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social
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thanks so much @dnblane.bsky.social not just for this, but the support and all the incredible work you are doing.

Healthcare: what is it for? Inaugural event of the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare: Sir David Haslam. Fri Oct 31st: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/centr... @mgtmccartney.bsky.social

Free to access Delphi study on what would make it easier to make and understand declarations of interest. Thankyou to everyone who took part. Next is to build it…. t.co/igfJKeybX5

The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth YouTube video by Katie Couric

"Here I am, this middle-aged black man, I'm in my best suit. I actually argued the case at the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all these degrees and awards. And I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation."

Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social

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V excited with postal delivery

🚨Publication🚨

Grateful to be part of this publication with @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and colleagues

Take home: lots of hormone replace therapy social media claims don't align with best practice recommendations. And lots of the posters have conflicts of interest.

Full study: tinyurl.com/2rxpfwnr

hi @drlouisenewson.bsky.social . someone just sent me a link to a 'Perimenopause, menopause and mental health: a global survey' but the questions seem so biased that I am having difficulty believing that this is part of research project? has it ethics approval? thankyou.

VERY EXCITING
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
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Benches are better!

BBC Radio 4 - The Drug Trial That Went Wrong What lessons have been learned from a 2006 clinical trial at Northwick Park Hospital?

20 years post TGN 1412, later , are drug trials safer? v pleased to be doing this for @BBCRadio4
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hahaha.
did you like the aubergine I feel was under appreciated

(we should have a drink)

thanks Alf. if you join the mailing list we will let you know how to join for the talk by DH.

VERY EXCITING
launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews
first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener
find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
please sign up and come

it was great !

Lifestyle medicine shouldn’t be a separate branch of medicine What is lifestyle medicine? It’s a massive hit on social media, where it seems to have captured the zeitgeist of a generation of doctors who are noticing, rightly, that many chronic health conditions ...

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Good to see @mgtmccartney.bsky.social & @debscohen.bsky.social back out on tour

meantime Rohin I do think I will be seeing you in Oxford and therefore will be buying you a drink for this before run off for sleeper.