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Development of a digital biomarker and intervention for subclinical depression: study protocol for a longitudinal waitlist control study Gisbert W. Teepe, Yanick X. Lukic, Birgit Kleim, Nicholas C. Jacobson, Fabian Schneider, Prabhakaran Santhanam, Elgar Fleisch & Tobias Kowatsch Abstract...

It's a small thing but I feel slightly more validated now that I know someone out there thinks my spit is useful :)

These newspapers are part of the Reach plc media conglomerate which in addition to three UK national titles - Mirror, Express and Star and the Scottish Daily Record, owns the largest part of UK local media, and although the corporate image is of separate locally published material papers/online...

Three body problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem “The three-body problem is the problem of taking the initial positions and velocities (or momenta) of three point masses and solving for their subsequent motion according to Newton's laws of motion and Newton's law of...

Serious concern about resistance - bad enough with bacteria, but with far fewer antiviral agents, resistance could be catastrophic: Potential Emergence of Antiviral-Resistant Pandemic Viruses via Environmental Drug Exposure of Animal Reservoirs

My answer to both first and second is no. There is a fair amount of workaday biochemistry being done but that seems mostly driven by lab/researcher preferences reflecting either inhouse skill sets or Principal Investigator perspective. Of course there's always the possibility that workaday...

Excess cost is a commonly used concept in Health Economics - usually a neutral term meaning "extra cost of doing or not doing A compared to doing or not doing B, without additional health/wellbeing gain" e.g Excess cost of care associated with sepsis in cancer patients: Results from a...

"Shortly" is code for "it's in the works, therefore I can't/won't give you a date" while "Later date" is code for "we aren't going to commit to timescale". LRM could have asked a supplemental on timescale but would have received a 'put down' response of "As I already replied to the Member....."...

The first ref is from 1998 and the second is mis linked - it leads to a botanical study. What looks like to be intended is Larun et al Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome . I think that ASA would be a more rewarding line of complaint than Trading Standards - the firm isn't making...

Institute for Government "This report – written jointly report by the Institute for Government and Public First, and funded by the Health Foundation – assesses why NHS hospitals are failing to deliver higher activity despite higher spending on the service and higher levels of staffing over the...

Oh - I was hoping for this:

I realise that an annual conference/colloquium is part of what IIME is set up to do but I do wonder whether it's a model that's past its usefulness. Bringing seven American, one Canadian and four European based researchers to the UK just so they can talk to each other in front of a small...

Episode 2 now available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mlym

i News How to see through the AI hype to the actual life-changing scientific advances A new antibiotic discovery shows the promise, but also the limitations, of AI There’s been a lot of AI doom and gloom of late. The newest generation of Large Language Models – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s...

Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins "For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by toughening up benefit rules. Part of the motivation has been to cut the welfare bill, but it’s also been framed as an attempt to stop disabled people...

Aerium Therapeutics has only been in existence since 2022 - no track record, although the scientific pedigree seems sound: https://www.aeriumtx.com/ however it's not clear why the Monoclonal Antibodies route would be useful post COVID19 when it's not recommended as a preventative...

Surely not ! The Psychological Flexibility Model: A Basis for Integration and Progress in Psychological Approaches to Chronic Pain Management "In the current review, we examine models underlying current cognitive behavioral approaches to chronic pain with respect to these criteria. A...

A very unusual study population: This is at variance to other "Long Covid" studies where PASC is associated with higher deprivation numbers.

Illness coherence seems to be a term developed out of the ideas of Antonovsky (Health, Stress and Coping) - explanation of which : The Sense of Coherence in the Salutogenic Model of Health and formalised in the Illness Perception Questionaire (IPQ-R) to which Moss-Morris has been a contributor...