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Mashup Score: 34Gender medicine for children and young people is built on shaky foundations. Here is how we strengthen services - 21 day(s) ago
Improving the evidence base for young people is an essential next step, writes Hilary Cass, as her independent review into gender identity services for children and young people is published Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability –William Osler William Osler’s much quoted aphorism is well known to every medical student. Living with medicine’s many uncertainties would be intolerable for doctors and for patients without some coping mechanisms. In Osler’s time, doctors relied on a mix of knowledge, custom, and paternalism to hide uncertainties from patients, and provide treatments they had learnt from their mentors. Nowadays we have the three pillars of evidence based medicine to lean on: the integration of best available research evidence with clinical expertise, and patient values and preferences. My independent review into gender identity services for children and young people is published today.1 When conducting the review, I found that in gender medicine those
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Mashup Score: 125“Medication is binary, but gender expressions are often not”—the Hilary Cass interview - 21 day(s) ago
The chair of the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People tells The BMJ ’s editor in chief Kamran Abbasi what her latest report says1 Children and young people with gender related distress have been poorly served because we’ve exceptionalised them. Health professionals are nervous to see them in local services and so they have often been bypassed straight through to the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman, whose waiting list has grown exponentially. Many have neurodiversity or other mental health problems that you would expect somebody to address locally. But if health professionals feel they can’t see them, then they sit on this long waiting list. And by the time they are seen, all of this has got much worse. There’s a greater incidence of mental health problems, …
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Mashup Score: 31Gender medicine for children and young people is built on shaky foundations. Here is how we strengthen services - 24 day(s) ago
Improving the evidence base for young people is an essential next step, writes Hilary Cass, as her independent review into gender identity services for children and young people is published Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability –William Osler William Osler’s much quoted aphorism is well known to every medical student. Living with medicine’s many uncertainties would be intolerable for doctors and for patients without some coping mechanisms. In Osler’s time, doctors relied on a mix of knowledge, custom, and paternalism to hide uncertainties from patients, and provide treatments they had learnt from their mentors. Nowadays we have the three pillars of evidence based medicine to lean on: the integration of best available research evidence with clinical expertise, and patient values and preferences. My independent review into gender identity services for children and young people is published today.1 When conducting the review, I found that in gender medicine those
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Mashup Score: 65“Medication is binary, but gender expressions are often not”—the Hilary Cass interview - 24 day(s) ago
The chair of the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People tells The BMJ ’s editor in chief Kamran Abbasi what her latest report says1 Children and young people with gender related distress have been poorly served because we’ve exceptionalised them. Health professionals are nervous to see them in local services and so they have often been bypassed straight through to the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman, whose waiting list has grown exponentially. Many have neurodiversity or other mental health problems that you would expect somebody to address locally. But if health professionals feel they can’t see them, then they sit on this long waiting list. And by the time they are seen, all of this has got much worse. There’s a greater incidence of mental health problems, …
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Mashup Score: 14
The head of the UK’s infection control specialists has called for more clarity from the drug regulator on recent advice for doctors to use fluoroquinolone antibiotics only when absolutely necessary, which he said has left prescribers confused and fearful of legal repercussions should patients experience side effects. In January the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) released without warning an update which said that fluoroquinolones should only be prescribed when no other antibiotics are appropriate, such as when first line antibiotics have failed, will not work because of resistance, or are unsafe to use in a particular patient. 12 Doctors have told The BMJ that they do not know what prompted the update or how the risks of fluoroquinolone should be balanced against the risks of other courses of action. Previously the regulator had stated only that fluoroquinolones should not be prescribed for mild …
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Mashup Score: 3Insitro, biotech AI’s quiet unicorn, unveils efforts in ALS, liver disease, and cancer at JPM - 4 month(s) ago
Biotech founded by Daphne Koller makes stir on eve of JPM conference with new papers on drugs for cancer, ALS, liver disease; poaches new CMO from Pfizer.
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Mashup Score: 2Amy Abernethy to step down as Verily’s chief medical officer in latest departure from company - 5 month(s) ago
Amy Abernethy, the president of product development and chief medical officer at Verily, told STAT she will leave the company at the end of the first quarter to start a nonprofit.
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Mashup Score: 11
There may be hope on the horizon for men who want to have more agency over birth control: YCT-529, a drug candidate that aims to be the first non-hormonal contraceptive pill for men.
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Mashup Score: 18
The FDA is in the final stages of cementing sweeping changes to the Office of Regulatory Affairs, according to three people familiar with the planning.
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Mashup Score: 17
The FDA is in the final stages of cementing sweeping changes to the Office of Regulatory Affairs, according to three people familiar with the planning.
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#Exclusive: As her independent review into gender identity services for children and young people is published, Hilary Cass writes for The BMJ about how improving the evidence base for young people is an essential next step https://t.co/QPPHeS58bE