Reposted by Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL"Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 26/09/2025These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide. Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza. 212070
Reposted by Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL"IAS - the International AIDS Society @iasociety.bsky.social · 02/09/2025🌍 "HIV is on the rise among older Africans, but care and research overlook this group – lessons from Kenya and South Africa"theconversation.comHIV is on the rise among older Africans, but care and research overlook this group – lessons from Kenya and South AfricaAgeing with HIV is now a global public health reality, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and the response must evolve to reflect that. 022
Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Belatedly sharing our follow up #pQCT paper in which we observed trabecular bone deficits of >5% in mid-life Zimbabwean women living with #HIV. This was most pronounced at the distal radius, a common site of postmenopausal fracture. @celiagregson.bsky.social @thruzim.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comTrabecular bone deficits predominate in the appendicular skeleton of midlife women living with HIV: findings from a cross-sectional study in ZimbabweAbstract. HIV-related mortality has fallen due to the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), so more women living with HIV (WLH) now live to reach menop 121
Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Insightful preprint by Mesinovic et al. @deakinuniversity.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social finding that #OsteoStrong does not improve #DXA bone density nor #HR-pQCT microstructure or strength in #postmenopausal women with low BMD. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence! 112
Reposted by Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL"Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Next #DSxHE MSK seminar #FortisNet 7th July 4pm GMT Dr Lucy Gates and Awa Touray @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Equitable Fracture Care Pathways in The Gambia #healthequity #fracture 🦴 🇬🇲 Register now! 👇 www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/event-detail...datascienceforhealthequity.comMusculoskeletal Health Theme Webinar: Dr Lucy Gates and Ms Awa Touray | DSxHEIntegrating traditional healing with modern health care for more equitable fracture care pathways in The Gambia 032
Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Pleased to be able to share our recently published systematic review in MDCP which appraised how current clinical practice guidelines approach the management of #osteoporosis for people with #Parkinson's. doi.org/10.1002/mdc3...doi.orgManagement of Osteoporosis in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice GuidelinesBackground Parkinson's disease (PD) is the fastest-growing neurological disorder globally. Defining features include tremor, muscular rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability, which in combi... 010
Reposted by Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL"Bo Abrahamsen @handle.invalid · 18/12/2024At last somebody says it like it is. The video is well worth watching too. 101
Reposted by Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL"Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Eric Topol is a particularly troubling source of health research misinformation imo because so many who should know better take him so seriously. I can accept he's well intentioned, but he's wrong too often to be harmless. 57415
Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Sharing our recent work on #HIV & #osteoporosis in midlife Zimbabwean women published #JBMR. 22% of women with HIV aged 40-60 yrs had a T-Score <-2.5, & 8.8% already had a fragility fracture. No women were taking #MHT or any osteoporosis treatment to reduce future risk: doi.org/10.1093/jbmr...doi.org 020
Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Great to see our latest Gambian bone and muscle ageing study paper on vertebral #fracture prevalence in the #Gambia accepted at #JBMR 🦴 🇬🇲 doi.org/10.1093/jbmr...doi.orgVertebral fracture prevalence and risk factors for fracture in the Gambia, West Africa: the Gambian bone and muscle ageing studyThe ageing population is growing rapidly, most in Africa in some of the most resource-poor settings in the world, yet we know little about the epidemiology 030
Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 23/09/2023#HiSciSky I'm a research fellow at Monash University interested in musculoskeletal health, particularly 🦴 imaging (DXA, pQCT, HR-pQCT). I've just moved to Australia 🦘 from the UK. I'm interested in how our bones change across the lifecourse and the different factors that can influence it. 090