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International News & Features Editor @bmj.com Journalism lecturer, @Imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Medical Journalism Awards Editor of the Year 2026. Views mine

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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RFK Jr: AI can give a second opinion better “than any doctor in the country” buff.ly/xJen0ex
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RFK Jr: AI can give a second opinion better “than any doctor in the country”
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The 7000 women defying the Taliban--Bylines and Sidequests 3 Oct 2026
A good news story to start off with:
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Weight loss drugs: Does microdosing GLP-1s work? buff.ly/t851W54
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Weight loss drugs: Does microdosing GLP-1s work?
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pentobarbital: failed execution of Christa Pike sparks renewed criticism of use buff.ly/t2t0Hjc
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Pentobarbital: failed execution of Christa Pike sparks renewed criticism of use
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TIL the FDA is responsible for food containing less than 3% meat, while USDA looks after more than 3% meat. Every day is a school day for an editor! Thanks Brian Owens!
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cancer: One in eight cases worldwide caused by infections like Epstein-Barr, study finds buff.ly/3h6lnGg
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Cancer: One in eight cases worldwide caused by infections like Epstein-Barr, study finds
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
U.S. ends health aid to Zimbabwe after ‘America First’ deal is spurned buff.ly/7zuVTsk
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U.S. ends health aid to Zimbabwe after ‘America First’ deal is spurned
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exclusive: The BMJ has found that at least 7000 female students in Afghanistan are continuing to train for healthcare professions through online colleges and clandestine schools and hospital placements. buff.ly/xQd3MYM
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Secret medical schools: How Afghanistan’s women are defying the training ban
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump, Mounjaro, and medical misogyny articles win BMJ honours at prestigious awards buff.ly/cQFSFUP
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Trump, Mounjaro, and medical misogyny articles win BMJ honours at prestigious awards
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Parkinson’s drug approved in US—but no clarity on when it might reach UK buff.ly/E3FD3O5
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New Parkinson’s drug approved in US—but no clarity on when it might reach UK
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Healthy Babies programme, modelled on Sure Start, to be expanded across England buff.ly/zxkM29r
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Healthy Babies programme, modelled on Sure Start, to be expanded across England
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Could “cot cams” prevent another Lucy Letby, and what are doctors’ concerns? buff.ly/GkCTa32
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Could “cot cams” prevent another Lucy Letby, and what are doctors’ concerns?
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump’s latest pick for FDA head backs president over vaccines and vapes buff.ly/Zl7mhjt
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Trump’s latest pick for FDA head backs president over vaccines and vapes
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack buff.ly/R4LMW2q
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Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack
New underground labs are being built as war rages on
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GLP-1s in the media: Dutch news groups fined over positive coverage buff.ly/JlOfPFl
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GLP-1s in the media: Dutch news groups fined over positive coverage
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best buff.ly/dAwJtKV
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Chinese-owned science journal created to rival the best
Newly-launched Vita is part of a broader government plan to give China a bigger say in what counts as high quality science.
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hmmm. buff.ly/ELVZ9ke
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Using AI to Write at Work Is Basically Fine — Unless You’re a Writer
Most publishers draw the line at using artificial intelligence to write copy. Those in other fields have accepted it as the default setting for written communication.
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI hacked Australian government health website—and only notified authorities three months later buff.ly/NwpMLfS
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OpenAI hacked Australian government health website—and only notified authorities three months later
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump again seeks NIH grant oversight as US researchers sue RFK Jr, Bhattacharya buff.ly/XgMLSi9
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Trump again seeks NIH grant oversight as US researchers sue RFK Jr, Bhattacharya
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Galleri cancer test fails to meet main aim in NHS trial, but FDA still endorses it buff.ly/9kJAJky
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Galleri cancer test fails to meet main aim in NHS trial, but FDA still endorses it
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gaza: Wasting in young children falls after ceasefire, but UN warns gains are “fragile” buff.ly/sczc7iC
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Gaza: Wasting in young children falls after ceasefire, but UN warns gains are “fragile”
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daraxonrasib: How soon could the new drug for pancreatic cancer be available in the UK? buff.ly/zeL2hwr
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Daraxonrasib: How soon could the new drug for pancreatic cancer be available in the UK?
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump: “Split vaccines into five doses to reduce autism”—the US president’s latest unevidenced claim buff.ly/Moxulde
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Trump: “Split vaccines into five doses to reduce autism”—the US president’s latest unevidenced claim
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Abortion: South Korea to approve mifepristone buff.ly/jYtrnPT
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Abortion: South Korea to approve mifepristone
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Counterfeit medicines: Major raid uncovers racket, with fears for medical supply contamination buff.ly/RfMJhwK
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Counterfeit medicines: Major raid uncovers racket, with fears for medical supply contamination
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Massive thanks to the MJA and congrats to my fellow nominees, especially my colleague and friend Jennifer Richardson! #mjaawards
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
F*****g hell
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Medical Journalists' Association @mja-uk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The penultimate award is for Editor. And the winner is Mun Keat Looi @bmj_latest Congratulations! @munkeatlooi.bsky.social i @abpi.bsky.social #mjaawards
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
American Diabetes Association boycotted in free speech row buff.ly/4TgTaVf
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American Diabetes Association boycotted in free speech row
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
EPA repeals major greenhouse gas emission limits for US fossil fuel power plants buff.ly/fiV66Xv
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EPA repeals major greenhouse gas emission limits for US fossil fuelpower plants
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EU social media ban: Commission announces restrictions for under-13s buff.ly/PP2IlrK
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EU social media ban: Commission announces restrictions for under-13s
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
International medical graduates still 50% more likely to face regulator sanctions, data show buff.ly/Z2PA4Ls
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International medical graduates still 50% more likely to face regulator sanctions, data show
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Bylines and Side Quests: 19 September 2026 buff.ly/lc3ye3e
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Bylines and Side Quests: 19 September 2026
What I’ve been working on this week
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump’s “dismantling” of NIH research continues apace buff.ly/y4yzUmn
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Trump’s “dismantling” of NIH research continues apace
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump says he’s banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump says he’s banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
The president has a history of feuding with news organizations and has at times tried to ban them and their journalists.
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI bioweapons: Anthropic claims scientists used Claude AI tool for dangerous research buff.ly/wVrrj1u
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AI bioweapons: Anthropic claims scientists used Claude AI tool for dangerous research
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wtf
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
US-UK drug pricing deal: MPs urge National Audit Office to investigate costs buff.ly/F6zt2zR
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US-UK drug pricing deal: MPs urge National Audit Office to investigate costs
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the scoop I want.
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
US measles deaths: Pennsylvania reports third and fourth fatalities buff.ly/4j3mYhj
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US measles deaths: Pennsylvania reports third and fourth fatalities
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reach to cut editorial team by further 160 jobs as key metric becomes 'active engaged time' buff.ly/tT6wvgc
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Reach to cut editorial team by further 160 jobs as key metric becomes 'active engaged time'
Proposal also includes closure of Kent Live, Aberdeen Live and Galway Beo websites.
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Eating disorders: Doctors and patients left in “nightmare situation” amid long waits, unsafe care, and preventable deaths buff.ly/NteN0e1
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Eating disorders: Doctors and patients left in “nightmare situation” amid long waits, unsafe care, and preventable deaths
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Call for MSF to be banned under terrorism law, but charity says it’s target of “disinformation”
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hot drinks and oesophageal cancer: the facts behind the headlines buff.ly/z0vxBOX
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Hot drinks and oesophageal cancer: the facts behind the headlines
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
US plans to stop HIV support for Namibia as African country rejects “colonial” data sharing demands buff.ly/sU7irLn
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US plans to stop HIV support for Namibia as African country rejects “colonial” data sharing demands
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI face drives patients to plastic surgery buff.ly/6Y4L9uR
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AI face drives patients to plastic surgery
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John Ricciardi @johntv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Love listening to @mattalt.bsky.social talk about this kinda stuff, if you haven't checked out Pure Invention, you really should (and obviously peep this video first)
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NHS doctor’s body is recovered from Pakistan mountain buff.ly/lAiwOgJ
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NHS doctor’s body is recovered from Pakistan mountain
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Mun-Keat Looi @munkeatlooi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lenacapavir: Gilead is urged to change price after NHS rejects HIV drug owing to cost buff.ly/FKNYHne
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ABSW @absw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How do you make your pitch stand out among all the ideas landing in an editor’s inbox? Find out with @munkeatlooi.bsky.social at ‘Pitching perfect: The art of pitching’ — with practical advice, examples and interactive group work. 📅 23 September 📍 @royalsociety.org 🔗zurl.co/sccv6
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