Chuffed to snap this page as my breast cancer screening decision aid clocked up 10,000 views! ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/... And thank you, Sydney eScholarship Repository, for the usage statistics! @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social @sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social

Hurry! Abstract submissions for #COSA26 close next Friday 7 August. Visit the website for guidance and to submit your abstract for an Oral, Poster or Rapid Fire Oral Presentation https://bit.ly/3DcoNKk Or see the exciting program that is taking shape https://bit.ly/3C6RuZz

Consultation on Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Australian Medical Research & Innovation Strategy and Priorities Closes 16 Aug 2026 consultations.health.gov.au/health-econo... Aus Medical Research Advisory Board is seeking feedback on draft MRFF Strategy 2026–31 and draft MRFF Priorities 2026–28

📢 Join us for The Daffodil Centre’s 2026 Symposium: The Future of Cancer Prevention in Australia 📅 Thursday, 17 September 📍 NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre, Surry Hills 🕘 9:00 am – 3:30 pm, followed by networking 🎟️ Free registration: bit.ly/4eSAcBd #CancerPrevention #CancerResearch

Position statement on artificial intelligence (AI) use in evidence synthesis across Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 2025 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... @daffodilcentre.org @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social @sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au

Position statement on artificial intelligence (AI) use in evidence synthesis across Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 2025 | Cochrane Library

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Active surveillance for low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ: A mixed-methods systematic review of patient, clinician, and health-system perspectives Great to see our @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social work cited @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social @brookenickel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Early detection efforts instructed me that my body was potentially dangerous." Elspeth Davies describes how living with an elevated risk of cancer damaged her relationship with her body, and how she sought to repair it www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Experiences of patient-led melanoma surveillance and teledermatology in underserved groups in the Melanoma Self-Surveillance Trial: A qualitative sub-study -new paper just out online by Priti Kharel, @katyjlbell.bsky.social, @monikajanda.bsky.social, me & others journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congrats Dee Ackermann, @sydney.edu.au Faculty of Medicine & Health Outstanding ECR Publication Prize winner! Mobile Dermatoscope Type in Patient-Performed Teledermoscopy: A Study Within A Trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @katyjlbell.bsky.social @monikajanda.bsky.social @jamadermatology.com

Mobile Dermatoscope Type in Patient-Performed Teledermoscopy

This study within a trial compares a lower-cost, ambient-light, nonpolarized dermatoscope with a higher-cost, illuminated, polarized dermatoscope for patient-performed teledermoscopy following treatme...

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Overdiagnosis of Melanoma In Situ www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/15... This review aims to synthesize contemporary evidence on the overdiagnosis of MIS, focusing on epidemiological patterns, screening-related detection, pathological interpretation, quantitative estimates, and clinical consequences.

Viewpoint: #Melanoma in situ is a main contributor to melanoma overdiagnosis, and reframing it as a precancer could help mitigate emotional and physical harms for patients. ja.ma/3YbCjIG

Responsive Equanimity to Uncertainty: Towards the Construction of a Concept for Handling Medical Uncertainty in Clinical Practice link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Responsive Equanimity to Uncertainty: Towards the Construction of a Concept for Handling Medical Uncertainty in Clinical Practice - Health Care Analysis

The objective of this study is to elaborate an overall concept of addressing uncertainty in clinical practice that covers a series of specific characteristics. To do so, a conceptual engineering appro...

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Bearing the Burdens of Medical Uncertainty onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Bearing the Burdens of Medical Uncertainty

Rationale Uncertainty comes in many kinds, is ubiquitous in all parts of clinical work, and is burdensome to physicians, patients, proxies and policy makers. Moreover, it leads to a range of adverse...

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Doubts About the Usefulness of Masked Priming for Tracking Lexical Consolidation psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Throwback to a long-ago past life...! "Andrews & Hersch (2010) showed how, even in skilled readers, the likelihood of a lexical neighbor producing inhibitory priming on a word target..."

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Why health information remains hard to read: The curse of knowledge as a structural barrier to patient education materials www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why health information remains hard to read: The curse of knowledge as a structural barrier to patient education materials

Despite extensive guidelines, the readability of health information remains poor. This study addresses a persistent explanatory gap by shifting the fo…

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Beyond health literacy: Addressing epistemic injustice in patient–provider communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond health literacy: Addressing epistemic injustice in patient–provider communication

This study reexamines patient–provider communication difficulties that have traditionally been attributed to patients’ low health literacy, highlighti…

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Risk Stratified Breast Cancer Screening: Early Outcomes and Psychological Impact from PRSONAL – a Randomized Clinical Trial www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The skin check of the future: improving early detection of melanoma while avoiding overdiagnosis link.springer.com/article/10.1... This expert synthesis provides a framework to navigate the complex landscape of melanoma detection, optimizing benefits and minimizing harms across diverse populations.

The skin check of the future: improving early detection of melanoma while avoiding overdiagnosis - Archives of Dermatological Research

The past four decades have witnessed a marked increase in melanoma diagnoses, particularly early-stage disease, without proportional decreases in melanoma mortality - a pattern seen across multiple ca...

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*New publication* Development of a question prompt list to support Consent for Genomic Testing (CoGenT) and research Just published with @springernature.com in Human Genetics doi.org/10.1007/s00439-026-02839-0 @sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au

Psychosocial impacts of spontaneous and medically induced premature ovarian insufficiency and early menopause: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies - Emma Minchin et al. in Maturitas www.maturitas.org/article/S037...

15 Best Dyslexia-Friendly Fonts for Students That Boost Reading Confidence tpd.edu.au/dyslexia-fri... Just came across this. Maybe useful for our work @sydneyhealthliteracylab.org.au and more broadly too?

15 Best Dyslexia-Friendly Fonts for Students That Boost Reading Confidence

As teachers, one of the most rewarding parts of our job is helping every student thrive, especially when it comes to something as foundational as reading.

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Clear, accessible consent forms matter! Discover the nationally endorsed InFORMed PICF template by CT:IQ & Bellberry. Learn more: https://ow.ly/x82H50YEN3b ✅ #Research #Ethics

A Simplified Participation Information Consent Form (PICF) for Health Research | ARDC

Learn how the InFORMed PICF template helps researchers create clear, participant-centred consent forms that support informed participation and provide participants with choices about future data sharing for health and medical research.

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‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more

Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.

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Motivation-informed digital reminders were no more effective than standard reminders for trial task completion in a randomized Study Within A Trial (SWAT) by Dee Ackermann @katyjlbell.bsky.social me @monikajanda.bsky.social et al now out in @jclinepi.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Motivation-informed digital reminders were no more effective than standard reminders for trial task completion in a randomized Study Within A Trial (SWAT)

Digital reminders are widely used in clinical trials, but their design is rarely evidence-based. We evaluated the effectiveness of two types of digita…

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Among US women aged 39 to 50 years, about half did not support performance metrics based on cancer screening attendance, and most preferred physician scores focus on informed discussion rather than receipt of screening. ja.ma/4cuJS3S

🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia Genomic Newborn Screening: Verdict From an Australian Citizens’ Jury 👉 buff.ly/3Ae0565

A new nationally endorsed template aims to simplify and streamline Participant Information and Consent Forms for researchers and participants. Read more: buff.ly/XcwR94F

Submit your Breaking Abstract to #ESHG2026! 🗓 Be part of the “Late Breaking Abstracts” session on June 15 (10:30–12:00 CEST) 🚨 Deadline: April 28, 23:59 CEST (no extension!) 🔗 2026.eshg.org/abstracts/br...

📢 Four weeks to go! Submit your abstract now. 👉 Submit your abstract here: eventstudio.eventsair.com/hsr-2026/cal... Submissions close 7 May 2026. #HSRAANZ26