Platysma, let’s explore this intriguing structure:
An anatomic, functional and evolutionary thread 🧵…

I’ll be talking with the magnificent Isy Suttie about UPF 🍞 THIS FRIDAY EVENING!

It’s the launch of the paperback so I’ll cover juicy details on the industry backlash, answer as many questions as I can and I’ll sign anything you bring.* 🧵

Tickets: waterstones.com/events/an-even…

Absolutely cannot wait for this on Friday 🥨

It’s happened before. 😬

This new podcast from Sue Mitchell and Rob Lawrie - hunting in real time one of the top kingpins who controls the migrant smuggling trade into the UK - is utterly extraordinary: the access, the insight, and the storytelling. First three eps out on Fri -bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Paraphrasing slightly: if you find yourself reacting negatively to anyone's description of their sex life then go home & reflect on your own bias. You're there to listen & advise, not judge!
Naomi Sutton #bhiva24

World first: Cigarette sticks with health warnings on appear in Canada. Hopefully the UK won't be far behind
newswire.ca/news-releases/…

'poison in every puff'

There is so much more I could have said .. Uzbekistan is where Ulugh Beg’s observatory was mapping stars in the 15th century, and the native region of the man from whom we get the word ‘algorithm’. But mainly this is about travels with my mother!

Such a fun series to work on. But I’m still furious I didn’t get to try out the queen’s hairdo like Raksha Dave 🏰

Tonight 8:50pm Channel 5

'Poverty is a political choice, it costs £80bn a year & it would be cheaper to fix it'
Perfect sentence from Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 illustrating just how limited medicine alone is in improving health & inequalities - Govt must prioritise health for all over profit for few
#rcpmed24

With thanks to Ronald MacDonald for that slide too. Great debate with JVT. And thankyou for #votemargaret

Great session @ #RCPMED24 Royal College of Physicians on Extreme Medicine with the inspirational Greg Whyte OBE, Dr Sundeep Dhillon, Prof Anne McArdle @livuniAgeing & Dr Connor Tweed! UHCW NHS Trust R&D at UHCW NIHR CRN West Midlands BMMS Xtreme Everest Vascular Society Global Polar &Altitude Metabolic Research Registry @Antarctic_Inspire_22 World Extreme Medicine BMMS

Outstanding performance by Margaret McCartney in the final debate at #rcpmed24 on whether doctors should engage more with the pharmaceutical industry - millions are paid each year to doctors but we have no central register of conflicts we have little idea where it goes.

Fascinating #RCPMed24 session with Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 on prevention to improve health.

Leading experts Sanjay Agrawal, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore and Professor Susan Michie provided key insights on vaccinations, smoking cessation, alcohol harm and obesity.

Catch up: rcpmedicine.co.uk/2024

#Medicine24 Royal College of Physicians - energising day kicked off by compelling talks on prevention & behaviour change Sanjay Agrawal 🚬 Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 🍔 Prof. Sir Ian Gilmore 🍺 & Professor Susan Michie 🧠 . Rounded off with great workshop on portfolio careers - new normal 💪🏾Thanks for having me!

The media, charities, government, universities - all under capture by the profit hungry food industry. With bad diet a leading cause of ill health worldwide Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 says we need legislation. And reflects on the success of Royal College of Physicians on the smoking agenda #RCPMED24

Special BMJ issue on Govt ties to alcohol industry from 2014: bmj.com/content/348/bm…
A decade later & the Govt freezes planned increases in alcohol duty: ias.org.uk/news/governmen…
Note IAS (inst of alcohol studies) is NOT funded by alcohol industry!
#rcpmed24
Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities

Wonderful to get lost (four times) whilst leading a Regent’s Park this morning with delegates at the Royal College of Physicians conference 2024 #rcp24