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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
open access, in the BMJ by me and @LarkinJames The NHS and industry partnerships: risky alliances bmj.com/content/393/bm…
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Deb Cohen @debscohen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A few years ago, Grail launched NHS trial of Galleri 50 cancer test, despite concerns from experts about its sensitivity as @mgtmccartney.bsky.social & I reported for @bmj.com & the BBC. Today investors were told main endpoint- a statistically significant drop in Stage III–IV cancers was not met
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
CMA investigation private dentistry following one on vets. thetimes.com/business/compa… Treating healthcare as a market doesn't work. From 2016: GP is going to do a dentist-still headed that way bmj.com/content/354/bm����� (medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreftreforevide… opening for booking soon)
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It’s from academic.oup.com/book/25046
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Screening: Evidence and Practice
Abstract. Muir Gray, Anne Mackie and Angela Raffle have been at the forefront of achieving improvements in UK screening over recent years, and they bring a
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
😂
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
hurrah
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
where are all my friends
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare - 5th Feb in St Andrews. Screening can be confusing, numbers, ethics, communication....PSA, whole body scans, influencers telling you to get bloods for 'wellbeing'... low cost, non profit, no sponsorship medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 25/11/2025
Prostate cancer, left alone, often does not affect male lifespans. We should be careful not to increase diagnosis rates without actually stopping men dying of the disease | Margaret McCartney
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How increased prostate cancer screening can harm men
David Cameron has joined the King as the latest public figure to disclose his diagnosis of prostate cancer. In an interview with the Times this week, the former British prime minister revealed that,…
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
thanks Caroline. as ever it will be whether the tests leads to real world improvements for women, or whether it picks up minor / no consequential issues vs leads to helpful better diagnosis and better care..... hope all well with you
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clare-turnbull.bsky.social @clare-turnbull.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
"Media coverage and PATHFINDER2: hype, simplification, and free advertising". Commentary on new GRAIL Galleri study published in: @thelancetoncol.bsky.social thelancet.com/journals/lan... From @mgtmccartney.bsky.social @paulpharoah.bsky.social, Sullivan,Houlston,Aggarwal,Schuh,Hogarth,Callister
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Media coverage and PATHFINDER2: hype, simplification, and free advertising
The recent media coverage of interim results from the PATHFINDER2 study of GRAIL's Galleri multicancer detection blood test exemplifies a troubling and recurring trend in science communication: the co...
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 13/11/2025
The UK media is overstating the benefits of prostate specific antigen tests, which can result in risk without benefit. Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
thanks so much @dnblane.bsky.social not just for this, but the support and all the incredible work you are doing.
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Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Healthcare: what is it for? Inaugural event of the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare: Sir David Haslam. Fri Oct 31st: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/centr... @mgtmccartney.bsky.social
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Healthcare: what is it for?
Please join us online at the first event of the Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare. We are delighted to
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Free to access Delphi study on what would make it easier to make and understand declarations of interest. Thankyou to everyone who took part. Next is to build it…. t.co/igfJKeybX5
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/09/2025
"Here I am, this middle-aged black man, I'm in my best suit. I actually argued the case at the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all these degrees and awards. And I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation." Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
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The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth
YouTube video by Katie Couric
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
sign up sign up come along to our first event 31st october or add yourself to our mailing list for a streamed section of the day. it's going to be excellent. no sponsorship, independent, and amazing people are coming medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi...
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The Centre for Evidence and Values
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
V excited with postal delivery
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James Larkin @jameslarkin13.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🚨Publication🚨 Grateful to be part of this publication with @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and colleagues Take home: lots of hormone replace therapy social media claims don't align with best practice recommendations. And lots of the posters have conflicts of interest. Full study: tinyurl.com/2rxpfwnr
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Does online information about hormone replacement therapy (or menopause hormone therapy) reflect indications from the British National Formulary and guidance from the National Institute for Health and...
Objectives To describe: (1) the most visible information (from individuals or organisations) on UK social media regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT)/menopause hormone treatment for menopause; (...
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
hi @drlouisenewson.bsky.social . someone just sent me a link to a 'Perimenopause, menopause and mental health: a global survey' but the questions seem so biased that I am having difficulty believing that this is part of research project? has it ethics approval? thankyou.
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
VERY EXCITING launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi... please sign up and come
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Benches are better!
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
20 years post TGN 1412, later , are drug trials safer? v pleased to be doing this for @BBCRadio4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Drug Trial That Went Wrong
What lessons have been learned from a 2006 clinical trial at Northwick Park Hospital?
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
hahaha. did you like the aubergine I feel was under appreciated (we should have a drink)
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
thanks Alf. if you join the mailing list we will let you know how to join for the talk by DH.
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
VERY EXCITING launch of the CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE AND VALUES IN HEALTHCARE at the Uni of St Andrews first event 31st October with Sir David Haslam and Scotland's new patient safety commissioner Karen Titchener find out more here medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/centreforevi... please sign up and come
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
it was great !
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Lifestyle medicine shouldn’t be a separate branch of medicine
What is lifestyle medicine? It’s a massive hit on social media, where it seems to have captured the zeitgeist of a generation of doctors who are noticing, rightly, that many chronic health conditions ...
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
😘
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Good to see @mgtmccartney.bsky.social & @debscohen.bsky.social back out on tour
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
meantime Rohin I do think I will be seeing you in Oxford and therefore will be buying you a drink for this before run off for sleeper.
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
oh no I am sorry. We hoped to bring a balanced view to an organisation which has had a lot of criticism, set against other similar-ish research organisations. we started out 1. thing has had a lot of criticisms 2. what are they, are they justified etc I will hang head in shame et c
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 01/08/2025
The UK’s flagship health research programme promises breakthroughs, but beneath an NHS branded facade, critics are asking who really benefits from the database, heavily backed by industry and government. @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and ‪@debscohen.bsky.social‬ investigate www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I think Grey and Raffle win that, but am at mm494@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
notes on rcgp council yesterday margaretmccartney.com/2025/06/22/r...
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RCGP council 21/6/25
As ever, I can only report what I say, and I try not to repeat what others have. Council members have 2mins only to speak on subjects. I do have problems with this; it’s not a good quality co…
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
am on it!
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
and @wesstreeting if you are not doing anything tonight, please feel free to come alonghttps://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/making-waves-lecture-series-dr-margaret-mccartney-dr-chris-van-tulleken/
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
so @wesstreeting can we not rethink: if you are taking advice, can you create systems which ensure that they are going to give us as independent advice as possible? see also: bmj.com/content/bmj/...
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I think these drugs do have a role. But when, where, why, adverse effects, long term use - all raise serious questions. We need INDEPENDENT advice about these. I think our systems of obtaining advice should actively avoid incurring avoidable bias/
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
they say
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
JD also is listed on Teneo teneo.com/person/profe... who are a advisory type consultancy /
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I can find one JD at Disclosure UK but not sure is the correct one (who declares novo funding). However this is from last years conference easo.org/semaglutide-...
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
in the Times, Prof John Deanfield is quoted
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
the press release did also state that "The study was funded by Novo Nordisk." a doctor quoted in it is "an advisor/consultant to Novo Nordisk." /
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
this is unpublished data, as the press release did state. this means it's not peer reviewed and available for others to consider the strength of these findings. /
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Big claims in the @thetimes today on weight loss drugs and preventative impact. thetimes.com/uk/healthcar.... however;
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Weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy hold key to longer life
Research suggests weight loss drugs such as Wegovy could delay age-related illnesses and halve heart attack deaths, even in those who are not obese
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
indeed. I suspect the 'answer'(s/ish) is in active transport to be honest, if it isn't made easy to walk/cycle/walk to bus/train etc we will continue to be tethered to cars
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
free link, to me and Susan Bewley editorial in the @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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Sex and gender should not be conflated in medical data
The target of any sex question should be sex Accurate data are essential to clinical care, research, and health service planning. But in some data sets, the NHS and the wider medical profession have ...
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Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It really should not be necessary for a group of volunteer women - work run on donations and good will- to take the scot gov to court to point out their illogicality. Thankyou for all your hard work over many years. Congratulations @ForWomenScot
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