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There's quite a difference between health care systems in how GPs are incorporated within them, also the term is by no means universal. Norway, (location of the study) has only 5,400 GPs, at approximately 1 per 1000 of population, the UK has 54,000 but at a rate of only 1 per 1260 of population...

It's an odd situation - patients go to Drs for answers, treatments, cures and support, and on the face of it given that Drs are supported by State and/or commercial resources, are well paid and have a degree of positive social recognition, the Dr/patient interaction could be expected to be a...

Author research background: https://research.com/u/ulrich-schimmack Overview What is he best known for? The fields of study he is best known for: Social psychology Social science Cognition Ulrich Schimmack mainly investigates Social psychology, Life satisfaction, Personality, Big Five...

Not casting aspersions on Norway but a couple of considerations that may to a greater or lesser extent apply other smaller countries. Although now broadly similar to the European average Norway (at 12%) has historically had a low immigrant population, and with just a single mostly sparsely...

^ absolutely this. Without understanding who is ill, how they are ill, when they became ill, the context of their becoming ill, and how long they have been ill, everything else (other than GWAS) is simply sticking pins in a biological map and having a poke around in those random locations in the...

Short Twitter thread by lead author

Computational and neural mechanisms of statistical pain learning Flavia Mancini, Suyi Zhang, Ben Seymour Abstract Pain invariably changes over time. These fluctuations contain statistical regularities which, in theory, could be learned by the brain to generate expectations and control...

Blog critical of the study: https://eiko-fried.com/clear-evidence-for-serotonin-hypothesis-of-depression/ "Overall, sample size and generalizability are the reason why firm conclusions about e.g. “depression” only follow when 1) we draw a large sample from the population we are interested in...

No Free Lunch from Deep Learning in Neuroscience: A Case Study through Models of the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuit Rylan Schaeffer, Mikail Khona, Ila Rani Fiete Abstract Research in Neuroscience, as in many scientific disciplines, is undergoing a renaissance based on deep learning. Unique...

A couple of oddities - the gender ratio of the post EBV cohort (total 195) was 1 to 2 M to F, the authors make no comment on this but it seems notable that such a gender bias would exist purely on the basis of infection. Also the physical capacity of the cohorts at 6 months showed only very...

Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows "For the past few months, a fierce debate has been raging over the question of what exactly is behind the sudden, sharp exodus of older British workers into economic inactivity. Is it driven by rapidly worsening health or...

Dataset | Published 3 November 2022 Estimates of the prevalence and characteristics of people with self-reported long COVID and associated activity limitation, using UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey data xslx file = Estimates of the prevalence of self-reported long COVID and...

I wouldn't criticise a study for either examining the obvious nor from stating the obvious - the absence of obvious data is frequently a block to progress. Blancheflower is as they say 'a character' and he made an arse of himself with his 'broken ankle' intervention, however he is well respected...

(education research not medicine, concerns gender imbalance in STEM - may have influence on research further down the line, attitudes in medicine etc) The importance of external assessments: High school math and gender gaps in STEM degrees Simon Burgessa, Daniel Sloth Hauberg, Beatrice...

The unspoken amplification of those replies is "ner na ner ner ner na" - One day we might have people in Government who see giving an answer to Parliament as an opportunity to inform and engage the electorate, as opposed to tediously snubbing the questioners. :bored:

Earlier paper from the same team: https://www.s4me.info/threads/visual-interpretation-of-brain-hypometabolism-related-to-neurological-long-covid-a-french-multicentric-experience-2022-verger-et-al.25111/

The epidemiology of COVID19 has been pretty good: COVID-19-Related Mortality Risk in People With Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic and Critical Review Eight in 10 deaths of people with a learning disability are COVID related Data on Post COVID sequelae is still limited, more so a year ago...

It's about availability of approved vaccines - annual flu shots are part of a well established process, and costs are low. COVID is still a work in progress and Governments around the world are securing supplies from a limited manufacturing base for the most vulnerable in their own countries. UK...

This is by no means new, it was happening with flu jabs from at least ten years ago. The Politicians - in all 4 of the National administrations were saying 'it's up to the GP to decide, but the commissioning bodies who pay for and set the number of vaxs ordered, would frequently instruct GPs to...