Nick Hopkinson

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

427.76 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 01-Feb-2026
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Europe has greater responsibility in the WHO without the United States The US’s withdrawal from WHO makes Europe the system stabiliser in global health multilateralism, writes Ilona Kickbusch At the upcoming executive board meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO...

🇺🇳 Opinion: ‘Europe has greater responsibility in the World Health Organization without the United States’ - Writes Professor Ilona Kickbusch in @bmj.com

‘Europe must become a proactive system stabiliser as the principal guarantor of @who.int ’s operational continuity’

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

YouTube video by CEGA Stacking The Deck - with Christopher Eccleston

Christopher Eccleston has joined forces with CEGA to call on the Government to end all gambling advertising.

Watch Chris explore the issues and make a 'real' gambling ad of his own.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6uf...

Child poverty strategy: Bold commitments and binding targets are essential for health equity To protect the health of children now and in the future, the medical profession must continue to advocate for action Child poverty is a fundamental driver of ill health that has been rising in recent...

Child poverty strategy: Bold commitments and binding targets are essential for health equity. www.bmj.com/content/392/... @bmj.com

Thanks to Think Like a Key for a perfect and timely release day delivery! Listen to @joebankswriter.bsky.social and me mulling it over below...

The BMJ appeal 2025-26: Hospitals should be sanctuaries, not military targets Last year, MSF healthcare workers and facilities in South Sudan experienced multiple attacks.  David Charo Kahindi , MSF’s medical coordinator, was in Old Fangak in May the day the hospital there was ...

Last year, MSF healthcare workers and facilities in South Sudan experienced multiple attacks. David Charo Kahindi, MSF’s medical coordinator, was in Old Fangak in May the day the hospital there was bombed
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Findings revealed major gaps in enforcement, including missing health warnings, absent disclosure of brand-influencer relationships and unrestricted youth access to tobacco-promoting content. /n

Evaluating policy compliance among leading tobacco brands on Instagram Background Instagram hosts pro-tobacco content that may reach youth despite existing US federal and platform-specific policies designed to restrict such content. This study assessed compliance with pl...

Tobacco sleaze: Leading tobacco brands on Instagram often violated platform and federal policies, particularly those concerning age verification, sponsorship disclosure and health warning labelling tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl... #LungSky #RespEd @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org /n

When we speak about community, or 'communities of care', it can easily sound like a buzzword, or platitude. A gloss to cover over the very real difficulties of dangerous times.

Yet here's the proof, that communities can form in necessary ways and collectively make powerful things happen.

Cost-effectiveness of a self-management maintenance programme following pulmonary rehabilitation: a UK randomised controlled trial for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Introduction Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an effective intervention for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but impact typically only lasts 6–12 months. This paper presents ...

The ‘SPACEforCOPD’ programme co-developed with patients and tested over 10 yrs was highly cost-effective in extending the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation and reducing NHS costs by £139.72 per patient (95%CI −£728.14 to £1007.41). bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/12/1... #LungSky #RespEd @bmj.com

ICBTrepresents a promising adjunct to routine medical care for patients with asthma complicated by anxiety. /n

Thorax: therapist-guided, internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (ICBT) effectively and safely reduces catastrophising about asthma, improves asthma control, avoidance behaviour and quality of life. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #RespEd #LungSky @asthmaandlung.org.uk @bmj.com /n

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Happy birthday, Angela Davis.

We’re inviting adults with lived experience of respiratory conditions to join the National Respiratory Audit Programme's (NRAP) patient panel.

Your perspective is invaluable in guiding NRAP’s programmes and improving patient outcomes.

Interested? Apply now: https://ow.ly/XqSA50XZLOE

Kick off 2026 with 6 CPD credits and expert insights at the Update in medicine – Birmingham. 🩺

Join leading physicians such as Sir Michael Marmot for a full programme of topical, practice-relevant medical updates.

Book your place today: https://ow.ly/ygoN50XZAaz

COPD and the idea of justice Join Professor Nick Hopkinson from the National Heart and Lung Institute for his Imperial Inaugural lecture.

Respiratory Medicine Prof and @ashorguk.bsky.social Chair Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social lecture: 'COPD and the idea of justice' @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Weds 28 January at 5:50-6:30pm

Attend or access the livestream: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20195...

#publichealth #tobaccocontrol

Delightful. Thank you.

Aberrant cellular communities underlying disease heterogeneity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Nature Genetics This study uses single-nucleus RNA sequencing to analyze lung tissue from 141 individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Distinct patterns of spatially resolved changes in cell compositio...

Finally out! The largest ever multiomics COPD study. 1.5M lung cells. 141 individuals. snRNAseq, spatial, blood proteomics reveal shifting cell states & biomarkers across COPD stages, disease endotypes.
Kudos Dr. Sauler & team for this Herculean effort.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Apart from Dusty in Memphis, of course..

Mushrooms from the tobacco barn - unfairtobacco In Zimbabwe, the Utariri Programme supports farmers to venture into climate friendly alternatives with short cultivation periods and low socio-ecological footprints: oyster mushrooms, small grains, ap...

Thanks for this valuable research, written by @tcrgbath.bsky.social experts.

How farmers in Zimbabwe could successfully escape the tobacco trap, you can find out here: unfairtobacco.org/en/alternati...

#FoodNotTobacco

Flue-cured tobacco in Zimbabwe: a particularly harmful commodity requiring the attention of tobacco control Background Tobacco control is beginning to pay attention to additives and flavours in tobacco products but less so to the tobacco leaf itself. Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) leaf increases dependence on ni...

New research highlights deforestation and economic traps created by flue-cured tobacco in Zimbabwe.
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social @btsrespiratory.bsky.social #RespEd #LungSky

Ten Yeasr After www.ten-years-after.co.uk/band.htm

Ten Years After were splendid.

Looking forward to seeing Ten Years After again, 43 years after the last time.

“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.”

Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini:
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

It outlines changes in how asthma is diagnosed and managed, highlights early improvements in care, and identifies where challenges remain - so we can understand what is working, and what still needs to change. /n

NG245 One Year On Our new report marks one year since the publication of the updated asthma guideline (NG245) and assesses initial progress across the UK. It outlines changes in how asthma is diagnosed and managed, hig...

Report from @asthmaandlung.org.uk marks one year since the publication of the updated asthma guideline (NG245) and assesses initial progress across the UK.
www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/ng245-one-year /n

There was a time on old Twitter when I would get online on MLK Day and write a long thread about his radicalism and the defanging and sanitization, his warnings and the quote misusage, and the collective not singular effort. I guess I am old or exhausted because by now I think folks should know.

MEPs demand answers from Commission over tobacco lobby meetings Five MEPs are pushing for EU trade officials to face scrutiny over dealings with Philip Morris International.

Tobacco sleaze - MEPs push for EU trade officials to face scrutiny over dealings with Philip Morris International. www.politico.eu/article/mep-...