Skip Murray 🌻 @skipscorner.bsky.social · 17h🦋 Good morning! Two more days until I head off to DC. Very excited to attend the FDLI Conference and Symposium. Three days of geeking out on regulations and science. So happy to see there will be more than one person there representing people with lived experience. Have a great day! #BeKind 🌻 010
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 18hDoes @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social have a winner in #EloraTZP for obesity in diabetes? Data from #EASD2026 suggests it might. conscienhealth.org/2026/10/01/e... 041
Skip Murray 🌻 @skipscorner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🦋 Good morning! #BeKind 🌻 3 more days until I head to DC for a week! 000
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Congratulations tobacco control! Smoking Induced Deprivation among adults who smoke ⬆️from 9.5% in 2016 to 14.6% in 2022 .. Prevalence .. greatest in Australia (12% to 22.7%)! @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social @jamomartin.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comSmoking‐induced deprivation and subsequent smoking cessation among adults who smoke in four high‐income countries: Trends, correlates and longitudinal associations, 2016–2024Background and aims Tobacco smoking substantially contributes to poverty. Smoking-induced deprivation (SID) occurs when people continue smoking despite financial stress. This study examined (i) tren... 033
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Today at #EASD2026, we're seeing quite a study in contrasts. Between potency and tolerability, between retatrutide and petrelintide. One size fits none. HT: @thelancet.com @thelancetendo.bsky.social @nejm.org conscienhealth.org/2026/09/30/e... 032
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Behind all the buzz about continuous glucose monitors, #EASD2026 brings us evidence that lends credence to the idea that this technology can help people live longer. conscienhealth.org/2026/09/29/e... 041
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 28/09/2026Retraction Watch and @theopennotebook.bsky.social are thrilled to introduce our first Research Accountability Reporting Fellows. This program equips journalists at local newsrooms to cover issues of scientific integrity, such as misconduct, data manipulation, fraud, and problematic publishing.theopennotebook.comAnnouncing the First Research Accountability Reporting Fellows—and a New Slate of Trainings! - The Open NotebookRetraction Watch and The Open Notebook are thrilled to introduce the first two fellows in our Research Accountability Reporting Fellowship. This program, supported by The Center for Scientific Integri... 0146
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We're expecting a flood of news from #EASD2026 in Milan this week: new drugs for obesity and diabetes, new insights on metabolic health, and new clinical guidance on diabetes care that gives attention to obesity. conscienhealth.org/2026/09/28/a... 031
Skip Murray 🌻 @skipscorner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Wordle 1,926 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 000
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Recognizing obesity as a complex, chronic disease sounds simple. In practice, it is surely not. At the same time a diagnosis of obesity opens up possibilities for medical care, it risks opening up a burden of stigma. HT: @the-independent.com conscienhealth.org/2026/09/27/c... 011
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Only 31 countries have best practice tobacco control so world need to also encourage smokers ➡️ to readily available, affordable, attractive safer nicotine products @jmenezes.bsky.social @chancethegardener.bsky.social @jgitchell.bsky.social @algore09algor.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....nejm.orgEvidence-Based Tobacco-Cessation Strategies for Low- and Middle-Income Countries | NEJMTobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death globally, claiming more than 7 million lives each year. The burden of disease is highest in low- and middle-income countries, where more than 8... 052
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Clive Bates on fire. Stakeholders without a stake The most legitimate stakeholders are those directly affected; consumers and businesses. Tobacco control activists have no inherent claim to legitimacy and must show credible, ethical reasoning. clivebates.substack.com/p/stakeholde...clivebates.substack.comStakeholders without a stakeThe most legitimate stakeholders are those directly and personally affected by policy, practice and communications - smokers and vapers. Activists should show some humility. 052
Skip Murray 🌻 @skipscorner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wordle 1,925 5/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 030
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sooner or later we will be numb to headlines like this. They are screaming at us this week that every 100 grams of ultra-processed food we eat is linked to an increased risk of death. How much? That’s in the fine print – three percent. 🙄 conscienhealth.org/2026/09/26/l... 021
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Ahem: Some ~personal news~ I am excited to announce that my second book, "Manly While Stimming: Autism and the Myth of the Masculine Ideal," is available for pre-order via Little Brown. Pre-order below. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-...hachettebookgroup.comManly While StimmingUnmasking Autism meets Notes on Being a Man in this one-of-a-kind reimagining of contemporary masculinity in the autism community.Society’s definition of m... 2933757
Skip Murray 🌻 @skipscorner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Connections Puzzle #1202 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟦🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 000
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"A sizable number of people taking drugs like Ozempic have no medical reason to do so.” So says the @nytimes.com times. Based on the lack of good documentation for obesity in medical records. So underdiagnosis feeds implicit bias, which feeds underdiagnosis. 😠 conscienhealth.org/2026/09/24/m... 012
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻Joe Gitchell @jgitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The @wsj.com story below would be just the most recent reason you should follow @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social if you call yourself an FDA Nerd. On the substance, allow me to indulge in self-promotion with my inaugural Substack: joegitchell.substack.com/p/setting-go...joegitchell.substack.comSetting goals for nicotine regulation and policyUsing Regulatory Stances to move forward 021
Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Achieving ≥50% smoking reduction within the first two weeks was strongly associated with long-term smoking abstinence in a smoking reduction trial using e-cigarettes, find Sitasnu Dahal et al. academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...academic.oup.comEarly cigarette smoking reduction and longer-term smoking abstinence in a randomized placebo-controlled e-cigarette trial among people who smoke with no plans to quitAbstractIntroduction. Evidence from nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) trials for smoking reduction suggests that early reductions in cigarette consumption 031
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Reposted by Skip Murray 🌻conscienhealth.bsky.social @conscienhealth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026REIMAGINE 5 toplines from @novonordisk.bsky.social for CagriSema vs Tirzepatide in people with obesity and diabetes brought a wide range of reactions. The best response is to look deeper at what the data might tell us. conscienhealth.org/2026/09/23/w... 031
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