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Ban lifted: Gay and bisexual men among over 600,000 Australians newly eligible to donate blood Rules that have effectively banned all sexually active gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma will be lifted, in a world-first move that would expand Australia’s donor pool and redress a ...

An excellent development! Gay and bi men now able to donate blood. I can highly recommend being a donor -- the staff are lovely, the snacks are plentiful and the demand on your time is very small.

Glad to see that open or transparent peer review is increasingly gaining ground!

🧠New📰in @apajournals.bsky.social #HealthPsychology
🕸️We used network analysis to explore how different components of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) are interconnected
🎯Findings suggest key intervention targets
📖 Read more: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#FCR #PsyOnc #SurvOnc @daffodilcentre.org

The acceptability and feasibility of an internet-administered, guided, low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for parents of children treated for cancer: findings from a qualitative ... Background Despite parents of children treated for cancer commonly reporting psychological difficulties such as symptoms of depression and anxiety, there is a lack of evidence-based psychological inte...

🔍 U-CARE study published: Parents of children treated for cancer found an internet-administered CBT self-help programme helpful, but identified room for improvement. Co-analysis with public contributors with lived experience added important insights.
👉 bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Late breaking at #ASCO25:

A 3-year structured exercise program after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improved disease-free and overall survival, physical functioning, and fitness, as compared with health education alone. Full CHALLENGE phase 3 trial: nej.md/4mh5RPL

@ascocancer.bsky.social

The #ASCO25 #OncoAlertTOP10 Abstracts in #SupportiveCare These are some of our picks of TOP abstracts we look forward to be presented at the upcoming ASCO Meeting in Chicago 🇺🇸

One final board member introduction remains... Prof @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social is our hard working, inspiring President of the International #SharedDecisionMaking Society. (1/n)

NEW RESEARCH🔬| This study gathered insights from healthcare professionals worldwide, suggesting guidelines to improve the emotional and psychological outcomes of lung cancer screening.

READ MORE🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

Honored to be presenting alongside two of the best Prof @michael-jefford.bsky.social & Prof #LarissaNekhlyudov on this important topic!
Please join us in Seattle for this interactive workshop!
#oncologynursing @oncoalert.bsky.social @pallonccop.bsky.social
@fumikochino.bsky.social

How Charlie discovered that time wealth can be the key to a slower, happier life | Modern mind Feeling tired and out of touch with what really matters to him, a busy father tries a few behavioural experiments

Interesting perspective on balancing time wealth & financial wealth through values clarification. Can relate!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

CONGRATULATIONS🎉| Dr Yuan Ni on your graduation! Yuan's thesis, titled “The Epidemiology of Multiple Primary Melanomas in Australia” was supervised by #DaffodilCentre Prof Anne Cust, and @melanomaau.bsky.social A/Prof Serigne Lo, PhD.

📍 @sydney.edu.au

This is a great thread. It's also why you can lessen that feeling of time speeding by and everything blurring together by simply doing *different* things. Get out of the rut. Start a new volunteer thing, take on a different role at work, take a vacation if you can, etc.

Quality cancer survivorship care: a modified Delphi study to define nurse capabilities - Journal of Cancer Survivorship Purpose To establish capabilities required by nurses to deliver quality cancer survivorship care in Australia. Methods A two-round online modified Delphi involving Australian cancer nurses. Initial do...

Also pleased to share this just-published paper. Work led by A/Prof Gemma McErlean to define scope and roles of all cancer nurses in the care of cancer survivors, open access at link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A preview of our education session at the ASCO annual meeting is in this ASCO Daily News article. The session will be at 8am on Sunday June 1 in room E450a, dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/treatable...

Excited about our upcoming ISBNPA Conference satellite workshop "Scaling Up & Sustaining Health Innovations"
📅 June 4–5 2025
📍 Newcastle NSW
More info: ncois.org.au/events/works...

Honored to be a featured voice for #ASCO25
Will be sharing highlights from a patient/research advocacy perspective & likely focus in digital health interventions, supportive care advances, and diagnostics that lead to treatment optimization & risk mitigation
TY @ascocancer.bsky.social for the oppty

Things that we cover:

- How the concept of open science is not new
- Whether the benefits of open science outweigh the extra time taken to implement these practices
- The responsible development of open science practices in psychology
- Data sharing considerations
- Plus more!

Integrating a Mobile App to Enhance Atrial Fibrillation Care: Key Insights From an Implementation Study Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research Background: Despite the growing use of mobile health apps in managing chronic heart disease, their integration into routine care remains challenging due to dynamic, context-specific barriers. Objectiv...

🧠 Big takeaway from our paper just out: Introducing apps into healthcare isn’t all about tech — it’s also about navigating people, practices, and perceptions. Without early planning and local alignment, even the best apps can struggle!

📄 Read the full paper here: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e66815

From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.

Amid Dutton's 'hate media' and Trump's despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever Australia’s press is already in a perilous state. But things could easily become worse.

Opinion | What's happening in Donald Trump's America is having a profound impact on journalism in Australia. And depending on the outcome of the election, it could get even worse.

🎉 Congrats to @drannasingleton.bsky.social from @daffodilcentre.org on winning the @ipospsychooncol.bsky.social 2025 Hiroomi & Setsuko Kawano New Investigator Award for her research providing accessible & scalable psychosocial support to cancer survivors 🌟 ipos-society.org/awards/winners 👏 #IPOS2025

Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

Step up to the podium! Tell the world about your work in #impsci, #evaluation, #EvidenceSynthesis, #KnowledgeTranslation, any project where you're bringing #research #evidence into #policy & #practice. #abstracts close 18 May @eisummit.org & @ishca-25.bsky.social combined: www.eisummit.org/abstracts

📣 We’d love to hear from anyone who has used or considered using the Equity Check feature on our website to develop their #impsci research questions! 📣

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World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza

World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza

🎙️ New podcast episodes out now | Three new episodes of Menzies’ Ask the Specialist are now live, sharing insights on culturally safe palliative care for First Nations patients. 🎧 Listen now: www.menzies.edu.au/page/Resourc...

RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

My dad turns 90 this year & I almost got a bit teary reading this reflection from Tim Baker about how our relationships with parents change over time and the little things we can do to support their happiness as they age & the activities they love doing everyday become more challenging #Ageing

👆 #WPOD @ipospsychooncol.bsky.social