Marike Andreas

New government, old habits? The opportunity for a turning point in prevention health policies in Germany is now! Germany has long lagged behind other high-income countries in terms of implementing evidence-based prevention policies. This is reflected by the relat…

Germany lags behind on prevention 🏥
📉 Low life expectancy
💔 High chronic disease
⚖️ Health inequality

Time to shift from cure to prevention! ✅
Evidence-based, population-wide action can save lives & 💶.

New govt = new chance. Let’s go. 🚀
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The irony of researching the effectiveness of heat-health interventions with 35 degrees Celsius outside and the AC not working in the office 🌤️

'We might think we have autonomy over our food choices, but we are all heavily influenced by our environment – physical, economic and social' - @petescarbs.bsky.social

The second Trump administration: A policy analysis of challenges and opportunities for European health policymakers The second Trump administration has already made major changes in US policies that affect health and health systems worldwide.We use the Health System…

free: The Trump administration is creating heavy demands on European governments in many areas, which might undermine their fiscal capacity and willingness to fund health systems or new ventures, but diminished US investments create opportunities for European policymakers

Was told today that this graph would look much better with dot sizes according to share of voters ... so here its is :)

Yoga for fatigue in people with cancer - Messer, S - 2025 | Cochrane Library Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

Oh you can read the Cochrane Review here: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

5/ Bottom line:

Yoga might help with CRF after treatment—but current evidence doesn’t let us say for sure.
If you're considering yoga, go for it—but don’t expect it to be a cure-all just yet.

#Cancer #Yoga #Fatigue #HealthResearch #CRF

4/ Why the uncertainty?

🧪 Small sample sizes
👁️ No blinding (hard to blind yoga!)
📉 Missing long-term data
📋 Varied outcome measures

3/ After treatment:

🧘‍♂️ CRF: Yoga probably helps in the short term (moderate certainty).
🌱 QoL: Small potential benefit—but the evidence is still very uncertain.

No strong data on long-term effects.

2/ During cancer treatment:

📉 CRF: Evidence is very uncertain. Yoga may have little to no impact in short, medium, or long term.
🙂 QoL: Yoga may help slightly in the short & medium term—but again, certainty is low.

🧵1/ Yoga & Cancer-Related Fatigue (CRF): What Does the Evidence Say?

My former colleagues at @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social just reviewed 21 RCTs, 2041 participants, asking one key question: Does yoga 🧘help with cancer-related fatigue (CRF) and quality of life (QoL)? Here’s what we found ⬇️

Always a fan of network analysis 👍 Makes complicated relations easy to understand

Read the article here: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5...

Bottom line:
🧠 Facts help
💬 Peer pressure (the good kind) helps more
🎯 Changing minds ≠ changing behavior

These findings aren’t just about COVID—they could shape better communication for future health crises too.

✅ Education & info campaigns increased vaccine uptake significantly (RR 1.23)
✅ Social norms framing worked even better (RR 1.28)
🤷 Most strategies didn’t shift intention much
📈 Slight increase in confidence with gain-framed messages

🧪 What works to get people vaccinated? A systematic review & meta-analysis by Claire Iannizi, me & the team at Cologne uni on 49 RCTs on communication strategies to boost COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

The TL;DR: How you say it matters. 📢

Let’s break it down 👇
#VaccineUptake #COVID19 #SciComm

Oh cool! I dont pay for Miro and its working fine but I guess for bigger projects an alternative would be good

Our team just came together to share common problems during the #systematic #Review process. We also collected helpful #tools and #tips. Maybe this is helpful to other researchers?

Werbung: Wie Kinder zum Quengeln gebracht werden Kids stehen auf Pizza, Pommes, Süßes – und die Werbung weiß das genau. Mit „Pester Power - Macht des Quengelns" steuern sie, was später auf dem Teller landet.

Ein Schoko-Hase ohne Gesicht? 🐇
In Chile darf der #Osterhase kein Gesicht haben, weil ungesunde Lebensmittel dort nicht an Kinder vermarktet werden dürfen.
Im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy gab es gestern einen Beitrag zu Lebensmittelwerbung für Kinder

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kinder-werbu...

Climate change, weather, and disasters Stating that human-caused climate change increases the frequency of hazards and/or disasters poorly matches scientific understanding. In summary: 1.

Because I often resort to statements such as "climate change will exacerbate extreme weather events" and then @ilankelman.bsky.social corrects me, I´m sharing this useful resource here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...

Respect to the young activists in the picture! And also: When will Germany follow the UK and ban junk food advetising?

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

The food industry learning from the tobacco and the fossil fuel industries...

I'll give you three (or one..) guesses who's behind a PR campaign to intimidate scientists recommending eating more plants and fewer animals to save our climate and improve our health
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

das Gesundheitssystem durch nicht-übertragbare Erkrankungen (zb Adipositas) finanziell stark belastet ist 🚐

🔍Wo sind die effektiven, evidenzbasierten Maßnahmen, die darüber hinaus auch von der Bevölkerung akzeptiert werden? (Werbeverbote, Tabak-Kontrolle, Steuersenkungen auf gesunde Lebensmittel..)

🧐Ein kurzer Blick in den #Koalitionsvertrag von #CDU und #SPD zeigt: Präventionsmaßnahmen auf Bevölkerungsebene werden ignoriert.
🌍Und das obwohl Deutschland im Vergleich eine geringe Lebenserwartung hat, viele Menschen an vermeidbaren Erkrankungen sterben (NCDs) und ...

Our takeaway: participation needs more than open doors. It needs open communication.
🗣️ Tell stakeholders how their input is processed.
📄 Show them where their feedback shaped outcomes.
🤝 Build real collaboration, not symbolic involvement.

However, criticism was more prevalent. A common concern? Transparency.
Many wondered:
🔹 How will our input actually be used?
🔹 Will this change anything?
🔹 Are we part of shaping policy—or just legitimizing it?

Our interviews revealed that many stakeholders valued the opportunity. They saw real potential to contribute to political change—and appreciated the chance to connect across sectors. Network-building was a big win. ✅

The strategy process opened a policy window for introducing evidence-based policies that are rare in Germany. Industry reps, NGOs, and researchers were invited to the table. On paper: a big win for inclusive policymaking. But we wanted to know: How did participants experience the process?

Germany's 2024 National Nutrition Strategy aimed to be participatory—but what does that mean in practice? We interviewed 55 stakeholders to find out. Here's what we (@fsniehotta.bsky.social @annakaiser.bsky.social and I)
learned about what makes participation meaningful.
doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

Whenever I screen I start thinking that there are just too many damn studies out there... Also, I'm not a fan of covidence. Who else prefers Rayyan? #systematicReview