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Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL"

@mobreasail.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at Monash University interested in musculoskeletal imaging, global health, and nutrition. All opinions my own. Ciarraíoch san Astráil. Ag iarraidh mo chuid Gaolainn a fheabhsú.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 26/09/2025
These 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.
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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"
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HIV is on the rise among older Africans, but care and research overlook this group – lessons from Kenya and South Africa
Ageing with HIV is now a global public health reality, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and the response must evolve to reflect that.
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Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Belatedly 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.social
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Trabecular bone deficits predominate in the appendicular skeleton of midlife women living with HIV: findings from a cross-sectional study in Zimbabwe
Abstract. 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
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Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Insightful 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!
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Claire E Clarkin @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Next #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...
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Musculoskeletal Health Theme Webinar: Dr Lucy Gates and Ms Awa Touray | DSxHE
Integrating traditional healing with modern health care for more equitable fracture care pathways in The Gambia
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Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Pleased 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...
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Management of Osteoporosis in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines
Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is the fastest-growing neurological disorder globally. Defining features include tremor, muscular rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability, which in combi...
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Bo Abrahamsen @handle.invalid · 18/12/2024
At last somebody says it like it is. The video is well worth watching too.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Eric 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.
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Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sharing 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...
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Mícheál Ó Breasail "ME-HAWL" @mobreasail.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Great 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...
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Vertebral fracture prevalence and risk factors for fracture in the Gambia, West Africa: the Gambian bone and muscle ageing study
The 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
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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.
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