Article Processing Charges are very difficult to decipher: pages of websites and lots of If's and maybe's. Proving harder and harder to get PhD student work into entry level journals!

Three companies OWN the majority of the global medical research published- but neither fund or support research

Delighted to see a chap I climbed with for several weeks -many years ago, fulfill his quietly spoken goal and ambition - and what an ambition!

Identification and management of preoperative anaemia in adults: A British Society for Haematology Guideline update
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BSH - Haematology

Being is a clinical trial is a valid treatment options so patients should always be offered the choice

Taking the Piss?? Urinary iron measurement - appears a useful screening tool to exclude #irondeficiency in children.

Urinary ferritin as a non-invasive means of assessing iron status in y... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In case you may not have heard - please recognise anaemia as a potentially correctable problem

This is NOT TRUE.
Ferritin <30 = internationally agreed definition of iron deficiency.
Ferritin <25 RBC indices become affected
Ferritin <20 QoL and Exercise capacity reduced (Cochrane meta-analysis Cory Dugan)
Ferritin <15 VO2max reduced

Improving oxygenation and perfusion is abut what goes through the pipes as well managing the pipes themselves

The relationship between menorrhagia, iron deficiency, and anaemia in recreationally active females: an exploratory population based screening study - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport jsams.org/article/S1440-…

The northern lights of the HS2 construction

Hmmm

Seems fair ?

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Times are changing - slowly - we need all doctor and haematologists to recognise and treat iron deficiency

Vascular Surgery should be about what goes through the pipes as well as the pipes themselves.

This is a horrific read - can it be true ?

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Iron deficiency