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Brian

@brianmackenna.bsky.social

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Nick DeVito@ndevito1.bsky.social · 5d ago

Good morning! Check this out! Share it with your friends! Think about things to submit! We’d love to see you there!

Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science@bennettoxford.bsky.social · 6d ago

Registration is open for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science! 📅 8-9 December 2026 📍 The Examination Schools, University of Oxford, 75-81 High St, Oxford OX1 4BG ℹ️ https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2026-bennett-institute-symposium/ We look forward to seeing you there!

Euan Reid@euanreid.pharmsky.app · 7d ago

Are tocilizumab & sarilumab equally effective for severe COVID-19? A new @natcomms.nature.com study of 10k+NHS hospital patients in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 shows no difference in 28-day mortality or time to discharge. Both IL-6 inhibitors are equally effective options www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tocilizumab versus sarilumab among adults hospitalised with COVID-19: target trial emulation across England and Scotland - Nature Communications

Using electronic health record databases in England and Scotland, this study compared tocilizumab and sarilumab in over 10,000 hospitalised COVID-19 patients and found no meaningful difference in surv...

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Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 4w ago

HISTORIC MOMENT Today at 14:40 Dr Mark Russell from KCL pressed the button to execute the first ever job on the new OpenSAFELY service. Until today, OpenSAFELY was COVID only. Now we are open to critical analyses that improve all patient care, on GP records, securely, at scale. PICS! THREAD!

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Brian@brianmackenna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales worldwide. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has ↗️, whilst ↙️ in Eng. Me on why the Irish health service should confront its opioid use www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #pharmsky #medsky

The Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem

Recent research shows Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally, and that prescriptions for painkillers, particularly opioids, have risen steadily over the last de...

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Brian@brianmackenna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales worldwide. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has ↗️, whilst ↙️ in Eng. Me on why the Irish health service should confront its opioid use www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵 #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #pharmsky #medsky

The Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem

Recent research shows Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally, and that prescriptions for painkillers, particularly opioids, have risen steadily over the last de...

linkedin.com

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Inaugural Lecture Klaxon! Our magnificent CTO Seb Bacon is a hero of the modern age, and now PROFESSOR Seb Bacon... Come to his inaugural lecture in Oxford! OpenSAFELY! OpenPrescribing! TrialsTracker! OpenCorporates! Open Code! Open Everything! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/05... bacon.boutique

"On The Record" - Seb Bacon’s Inaugural Lecture | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Come and join Seb for his inaugural lecture as the first-ever Professor of Practice at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

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Brian@brianmackenna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has risen, whilst falling in England. I wrote about why the Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵

The Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem

Recent research shows Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally, and that prescriptions for painkillers, particularly opioids, have risen steadily over the last de...

linkedin.com

Brian@brianmackenna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally. Meanwhile opioid prescribing in Ireland has risen, whilst falling in England. I wrote about why the Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-... brief🧵

The Irish health service needs to confront its opioid problem

Recent research shows Ireland has amongst the highest over-the-counter codeine sales internationally, and that prescriptions for painkillers, particularly opioids, have risen steadily over the last de...

linkedin.com

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 5mo ago

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.

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Brian@brianmackenna.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 OpenSAFELY Milestone Paper! How did the pandemic affect diagnosis rates for chronic diseases? We analysed rates for 19 long-term conditions in 30m people in England. The results are out this week in @bmj.com 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...

Time trends in newly recorded diagnoses of 19 long term conditions before, during, and after the covid-19 pandemic: population based cohort study in England using OpenSAFELY

Objective To evaluate temporal changes in rates of newly recorded diagnoses for 19 long term conditions in England in relation to the covid-19 pandemic by disease, age group, sex, socioeconomic status...

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