@laranroberts1.bsky.social
Haematologist interested in venous thrombosis and acquired bleeding. King's College Hospital, London.
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Up to a third of older people who fall are taking prescribed anticoagulants at the time of the incident.
This article provides guidance on imaging decisions and anticoagulation management in suspected and confirmed traumatic brain injury
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
What are the barriers to recruitment and participation in RCTs evaluating postpartum thromboprophylaxis? This qualitative study reveals trust in providers, altruism, and risk perception as key motivators and barriers. Important insights for future trial design.
www.jthjournal.org/article/S153...
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New review discusses underutilization of effective agents for hematologic care.
The team, including @heme-fan.bsky.social and @gbarnesmd.bsky.social recommend addressing this knowledge gap with better patient education resources!
www.rpthjournal.org/article/S247...
@emanhassan.bsky.social
Congratulations!
📢 New in Lancet Haematology!
Our commentary explores how machine learning can personalise blood donation by predicting ferritin recovery—not just haemoglobin. Towards safer, iron-aware donation practices.
doi.org/10.1016/S235...
#Haematology #BloodDonation #DigitalHealth
Have you had a blood clot and would like to get involved with research? Take a look at our news update - lots of opportunities seeking your voice conta.cc/4dLqMa2
30.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in pregnancy-associated VTE? Do you use the RCOG GTG 37a? Here's a commentary @bjog.bsky.social from the guideline update committee. doi.org/10.1111/1471... @isth.org @bhwords.bsky.social @profmakris.bsky.social @middeldorps.bsky.social @fniainle.bsky.social @laranroberts1.bsky.social
25.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent review. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
16.04.2025 13:12 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
👥 Meet the future of thrombosis and hemostasis research. In "Leading from the Start", we highlight the pivotal role of the ISTH SSC and its Early Career Co-Chairs—emerging leaders who are already making a global impact.
Read more here: bit.ly/3XOmNCI
Congratulations to the 2025 Editor’s Awards Recipients! We invite the community to read and share their important contributions ⬇️
31.03.2025 13:15 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Prof. @isabellemahe.bsky.social presents API-CAT at @accintouch.bsky.social published in @nejm.org: Extended anticoagulation with reduced-dose apixaban is noninferior to full-dose for preventing recurrent VTE, with less clinically relevant bleeding 🩸in cancer patients
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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📢 @jthjournal.bsky.social is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 JTH Editors’ Awards!
These prestigious awards honor six outstanding early career investigators for their top articles in thrombosis and hemostasis. Join us in congratulating the winners🎉 and learn more here: bit.ly/4lc2pFR
If you are interested in vascular liver diseases , you are definitively interested in joining this COST Action!
22.03.2025 20:31 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Very sad. So many good doctors driven to either leaving the NHS or taking their own lives.
16.03.2025 06:59 — 👍 139 🔁 72 💬 7 📌 3
The Repeat Study addressed a really important knowledge gap!
The incidence of recurrent events following an ante- or postpartum VTE is 2.4% person-years. The cumulative risks are 6%, 13%, 17%, and 30% at 2, 5, 10, and 30 years respectively
www.jthjournal.org/article/S153...
@jthjournal.bsky.social
Pubmed
02.03.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I can still access Pubmed - seems to be strange regional variation.
02.03.2025 11:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just picked this up from the library. I am really looking forward to reading now!
02.03.2025 09:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can... obvs right?
01.03.2025 18:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Read this State of The Art review on transfusion therapy in trauma first presented at the @isth.org 2024 Congress:
Transfusion in trauma: empiric or guided therapy?
Full paper here: www.rpthjournal.org/article/S2475-0379(24)00358-3/fulltext
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
Large international multicenter cohort study showing that DOACs are a good option to treat cerebral venous thrombosis. Kudos to @jonathancoutinho20.bsky.social and team for pulling this off!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1ke765FFzL...
@nytimes.com positions let go
19.02.2025 02:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Did you know? Around 50% of patients with acute CAT in your practice do not meet the inclusion criteria of the RCTs. Listen to the podcast with @gbarnesmd.bsky.social about recent trials taking a more pragmatic approach.
www.medthority.com/medical-educ...
Congratulations to all runners-up and winners of the Medical Program Research Awards for 2024! ◦ Riding.high award: Most citations gained during the 12-month period presented to Cindy Jones • It was noticed award: Highest-cited paper in the period presented to Christian Moro and Allan Stirling The wind beneath their wings award: Support of research presented to Dena Bird and Krystie Teasdale ◦ Starting_on a high award: Early-career publication award presented to Jacob Thorstensen and Charlotte Phelps orry, try_again award: Highest number of rejections on a single manuscript presented to Amy Bannatyne et al. 11 rejections (accepted on the 12th) • Broken dreams award: Biggest grant failure award / highest value of rejected grant application presented to Paul Dunn . Show me the money_award: Lowest-value successful grant presented to Joan Roehl ◦ Almost there award: The longest HDR supervision award presented to Michell McLean et al. (9.5 years!) • They don't get me award: Most boring title on a submission presented to Tanisha Jowsey et al. Headline Hero award: Most creative title on a submission presented to the Internal evaluation paper team: Sujani Gamage, Tanisha Jowsey, Jo Bishop, Melanie Forbes, Lucy Grant, Trish Green, Helen Houghton, Matthew Links, Mark Morgan, Joan Roehl & Jessica Stokes-Parish. • Look at me award: Medical Influencer presented to Mark Morgan and Jessica Stokes-Parish • We_did it supervision award: Most HDR student completions in the period presented to Christian Moro and Tanisha Jowsey
Picture of the award winners holding their award certificates.
If you're looking for #PsychologicalSafety in academia, this is how it's done- 👏👏👏 to Bond University medical program for recognising effort as much as achievement with awards like the 'Sorry, Try Again Award'. 11 rejections, woohoo! 🤣❤️
13.02.2025 08:19 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Introducing JTH’s new Educational Review Series—your go-to resource for fundamental insights into critical topics in thrombosis and hemostasis ⬇️
11.02.2025 16:49 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals?
This is not how it works, Mr President.
Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words"
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
