ENDO 2025 started with a bang - thank you John Newell Price for an amazing and inspiring opening remark. It’s wonderful to be part of this amazing community at the @endocrinesociety.bsky.social

Extremely grateful for catching up and spending time with my awesome visitor @cnpdr.bsky.social on beautiful Rottnest Island - another example of the wonders that the @endocrinesociety.bsky.social make possible!

Striking data in this week’s @nejm.org Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM

Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...

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It’s great that numbers have increased, but much more needs to be done to change this (everywhere)

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Only 5% of UK medical school entrants are working class, data shows

This is just the heartwarming (and beautifully written) story I needed this week www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There.

How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.

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“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?” So, she took a breath, and spoke. nyti.ms/3WtmNY2

So sad to hear of David Lynch’s passing. I saw Twin Peaks as a teenager on TV and it surely left a mark on me. Getting to know his oeuvre as a young adult (Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet) opened my eyes to the wonderful weirdness of the world.

Sometimes I miss not have a cold/snowy Xmas, but then the full glory of the Australian summer comes banging at me - at Wadjemup/Rottnest Island, 33C/92F today

Just realised that although I've joined @bsky.app nearly 3 months now (pioneer feelings), I had not yet posted! Let it be, then, to highlight this important and incredibly moving piece by Katherine Koh in last week's NEJM www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Invisible Deaths — Mortality among People Experiencing Homelessness | NEJM

Premature death is common among people experiencing homelessness. The profound neglect that people who are homeless experience in life is just as tragic in death.

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