Marian Hannan

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Elbows up!! Happy Canada Day!

The ultimate power play in research - partnering with patients, partnering with power - Research Involvement and Engagement Background Patient and public involvement (PPI), also called patient engagement, patient partnership, or consumer involvement, holds potential to change approaches and outcomes in research and healthc...

The ultimate power play in research - partnering with patients, partnering with power

@dawnrichards.bsky.social, Janelle Bowden, Patrick Gee, Alex Haagaard, Anita Kothari, Annette McKinnon, Codie Primeau, @andreatricco.bsky.social, et al

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Number of interventions utilising each type of healthcare professional. Note: Other trained individuals included Masters level psychologist, PA coach with Masters related to health education, heath coach, fitness instructor or peer with RMD

Scoping review summarized existing telerehabilitation interventions for people living with rheumatic musculoskeletal disease. Most interventions were for OA and RA, and more than half of rehab interventions relied on physiotherapist skills

Arthritis & Rheumatology
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#Medsky

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

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Lovely presentation on foot & ankle by Prof Hylton Menz at EULAR. Great focus on foot OA at last! #EULAR2025 #hyltonmenz #ACR2025

PSA: One of those anecdotal data points that might be useful to know—more than a quarter of my mom's ward at her nursing home has contracted Covid in the last 10 days or so.

Call for applicants for editor-in-chief of Arthritis Care & Research banner

The call for applicants for the position of Editor-in-Chief, Arthritis Care & Research, is open. All ARP members are eligible to apply. Submit your letter of intent by May 16. Applications are due Aug 1
Details → acr.tw/4ctGN3r

On my way to Sydney where I’ll be giving a talk called “Dr. Glaucomflecken’s Really Fun & Incredibly Uplifting Guide to US Healthcare.”

The takeaway message: do the opposite of the thing that we’re doing.

Oh no! Speedy healing to you and yr poor foot 🦶!
Check out the Ruth Galloway mystery series by Ellie Griffiths. Archeology + UK + good female lead. Def helps healing! ❤️‍🩹 👍

Please take some time to register your views on outcomes for people with foot and ankle disorders in an online consensus study being conducted by Lara Chapman on behalf of the OMERACT Foot and Ankle Working Group. Details below:

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leeds/comf...

Remember this

A man holding a sign that says: "Why Protest? Because it is easier than hiding a family in your attic"

Saw this post and chills ran down my spine.
Let's not let history repeat itself.

Boston does protests like no other! Who cares about rain!#handsoff

The Longitudinal Relationship Between Pain and Depression in People with Inflammatory Arthritis: a Narrative Review. Graphical abstract created with BioRender

Narrative review examines the relationship between pain and depression in patients with inflammatory arthritis in longitudinal studies and summarizes the literature on causal pathways and assessment recommendations

AC&R
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#Medsky #Rheumsky #ChronicPain #MentalHealth

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If you are at a conference and feel compelled to make a comment during the QA section, consider, for just one second, don't. No one is paying to hear you speak. Keep your comments in your pocket.

E is for Epi | Ellie Murray, ScD | Substack Making sense of the science of public health. Click to read E is for Epi, by Ellie Murray, ScD, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Some personal news: I have resigned from Boston University as of this week.

Those of you that have been following me for a while will know I have been having some health issues—I have resigned to focus on recovery.

I’ve also started a newsletter (epiellie.substack.com), so please follow me there.

I’m sorry to read of your leaving BUSPH. 🤯Tremendous loss for them and the students. I look forward to seeing more from you on yr sub stack! Good luck and sending lots of good health your way! 👍 🙏 🕵️‍♀️

Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now

Volunteers revive pre-Trump CDC website Restored CDC provides the same critical data and information and user experience as the previous CDC website.

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website, called RestoredCDC.org, as it appeared the day President Trump was inaugurated.

"I felt that we could restore any data sets that people might not have access to anymore because these were publicly funded data."

The man with the golden arm A short tale of immunology and one man's incredible commitment.

A little immunology story celebrating the legacy of James Harrison- something positive in amongst the gloom 🧪

Dear Canada and Mexico,

We’re with you.

Sincerely,

Decent Americans

I’ve been trying to pass as Canadian on my travels (in and out of country!) and have maple leaf and lapel Canadian flag. 🇨🇦 I only wish we could be the extra Canadian province!!

I think I'm going to say that we're Canadian whenever we're travelling out of the country now. Maybe sport a maple leaf sticker.

Inflation rose in January. Working people are struggling to make ends meet. Trump’s newly planned tariffs will make the problem worse. Let me explain. The Truth About Trump’s Tariffs

Who pays Trump's new tariffs?

Spoiler alert: it's not Canada, Mexico, or China.

It's YOU. https://youtu.be/AfVGUiet39E?si=UEYERynxqVk8ORMZ

Me too Mike. Skype was IT back in the day… I’ll miss it weirdly enough! 🥴

The Town That Went Feral When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.

What’s happening with the US government reminds me of this story (great book btw):
Libertarians took over a town in NH in 2004 and gutted its services, cut taxes, etc. Less than 8 yrs later things had gotten so bad that black bears were breaking into homes and killing people for the first time ever.

I remember when a simple break-in to the DNC’s offices caused an impeachment and a president stepping down.