Michael Absoud
@mabsoud.bsky.social
Paediatrician @EvelinaLondon ,clinical academic @KingsCollegeLon, Neurodevelopmental,epilepsy, long term conditions, mental health:Views personal #Recovery4Kids
Suppressing the puberty blockers trial misunderstands how medicine and the approval of drugs actually work, says Dr Joseph Freer www.independent.co.uk/voices/puber...
I’m a GP – here’s why the puberty blockers trial must go ahead
A landmark drugs trial involving 200 children was supposed to answer thorny questions about giving hormones to adolescents with gender dysphoria. But rather than dampening down the controversy, the st...
independent.co.uk
Our new #preprint on @researchsquare: A nonrandomised feasibility evaluation of a home‑based intervention for parents of adolescents with learning disabilities, with or without autism www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... @kingslsm.bsky.social
A nonrandomised feasibility evaluation of a home‑based intervention for parents of adolescents with learning disabilities, with or without autism
Purpose To determine the feasibility and acceptability of delivering ACHIEVE—a home‑based, parent‑coached OT/SLT intervention—in everyday UK practice and to describe recruitment/retention,...
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Our new #preprint on @researchsquare: A nonrandomised feasibility evaluation of a home‑based intervention for parents of adolescents with learning disabilities, with or without autism www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... @kingslsm.bsky.social
A nonrandomised feasibility evaluation of a home‑based intervention for parents of adolescents with learning disabilities, with or without autism
Purpose To determine the feasibility and acceptability of delivering ACHIEVE—a home‑based, parent‑coached OT/SLT intervention—in everyday UK practice and to describe recruitment/retention,...
researchsquare.com
Let’s make care better for gender diverse young people – your voice matters. 🔗Take the survey: buff.ly/Or9cup9 📣Please help us get as many voices heard as possible and share this post.
The other aspect of this story is, academics and NHS staff could and would have done this better and essentially for free if they were given the same data access as Faculty, but they are not allowed it. Government policy is deliberately to frustrate pro bono / non-profit health data research.
CarolineJMolloy@carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7mo agoI dug behind the industry paywall to find out, what *are* the geniusly clever things that AI can predict will increase NHS A&E pressures? You’ll never guess - Flu - Winter - Icy weather - Friday nights - Christmas - New Years Eve Jeez, Dom’s old mates at Faculty AI (o yes) really saw Wes coming
Please share the Youth Gender Diversity PSP survey with your colleagues, patients, and their carers so their questions about gender dysphoria/incongruence are heard and represented in the future. Survey now open: buff.ly/CRZUinI
Amid fierce criticism, I spoke to critics & triallists about the puberty blocker trial, putting methodological & ethical concerns to researchers & Hilary Cass for @bmj.com. They describe clinical context, challenge criticism & say studies are necessary. (open access) www.bmj.com/content/391/...
“This is why the trial is necessary”: experts behind the puberty blockers study respond to mounting opposition
As the NHS launches its most contested clinical trial in decades, Deborah Cohen speaks to Emily Simonoff, Pathways lead investigator, and Hilary Cass, the author of the review that led to the study T...
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🎤NEW✍🏽 James Lind Alliance Survey Help pick top 10 research questions for children & young people (upto 25 years old) with gender incongruence/dysphoria 2 versions: Young People/parents app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-... Public & Professionals app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-...
A special collection of 6 papers on cohort studies in China is just out in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/collections/... with an editorial on the collection and the current publication climate www.bmj.com/collections/...
Enhancing cohort studies in China and internationally
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No one understands the issues related to gender diversity better than those with lived experience, their parents/carers and the professionals who work with them. Share your views to help ensure that research focuses on what matters most: buff.ly/lGw3Zp8
Please RT/ share.. the core purpose of our PSP is better care for children and young adults with gender dysphoria/incongruence and we want to hear from people with a range of experiences/ views.
Michael Absoud@mabsoud.bsky.social · 10mo ago🎤NEW✍🏽 James Lind Alliance Survey Help pick top 10 research questions for children & young people (upto 25 years old) with gender incongruence/dysphoria 2 versions: Young People/parents app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-... Public & Professionals app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-...
Please RT/ share.. the core purpose of our PSP is better care for children and young adults with gender dysphoria/incongruence and we want to hear from people with a range of experiences/ views.
Michael Absoud@mabsoud.bsky.social · 10mo ago🎤NEW✍🏽 James Lind Alliance Survey Help pick top 10 research questions for children & young people (upto 25 years old) with gender incongruence/dysphoria 2 versions: Young People/parents app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-... Public & Professionals app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-...
🎤NEW✍🏽 James Lind Alliance Survey Help pick top 10 research questions for children & young people (upto 25 years old) with gender incongruence/dysphoria 2 versions: Young People/parents app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-... Public & Professionals app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour won’t fend off Reform UK by just diluting Farage’s poison | Letters
Letters: The party must not offer a watered-down version of Reform’s policies, but instead tell the truth about immigrants, writes Guy Fassler. Plus letters from Doug Maughan, Sunil Bhopal and Dr Roge...
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Dr Michael Absoud, @kingslsm.bsky.social, tells Wired avoiding paracetamol could have adverse consequences for pregnant women: www.wired.com/story/trumps...
Trump’s Tylenol Directive Could Actually Increase Autism Rates, Researchers Warn
Experts fear that Donald Trump’s anti-painkiller tirade could lead to an increase in risk factors for autism, and don’t trust the administration to assess data as it continues to search for a cause.
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Opinion: The more 'expert' you become, the more you think you ought to know, and the more you fear your credibility will suffer if you ever admit otherwise. on.ft.com/4mh4ujK
Socio-Demographic and Health Data of Adolescents Identifying as Transgender or Gender Diverse in the Born in Bradford’s Age of Wonder Cohort., wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...
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Closing on 14th September: parent / carer voice member of the CYP Gender Research Oversight Board www.england.nhs.uk/get-involved...
NHS England » Specialised commissioning patient and public voice (PPV) partner roles
NHS England » Specialised commissioning patient and public voice (PPV) partner roles
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Gathering autistic adults’ visual experiences to inform adaptations: a qualitative interview study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gathering autistic adults’ visual experiences to inform adaptations: a qualitative interview study
Sensory processing difficulties are highly prevalent in autism and affect quality of life. Identifying the lived visual experiences of autistic individuals across the lifespan is important for info...
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I thought this was a great article outlining the changes to the Covid-19 vaccination program in the USA Bringing it more in line with current practice elsewhere in the world www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination | NEJM
This article from the FDA compares broad U.S. recommendations on Covid vaccination with those from other countries and announces the adoption of an evidence-based approach to such recommendations.
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Great new study by on behavioural aspects of ventilation in hospitality venues. Many monitored venues had poor ventilation, but hosts list many barriers to improve - tho some venues attempt to improve following info campaign. let's see why it's not always simple to ⬆️ ventilation:
or a new study shows that either, or a combination of: ▪️reduced viral emission (bcos air cleaner added several days later from initial readings) ▪️changes to window ventilation ▪️presence of an air cleaner see below for fag packet calc to show it can't all be due to air cleaner...
Danielle Beckman@daniellebeckman.bsky.social · last yr.A new study shows that air cleaners can reduce up to 98,1 % of viral load in the air of a #COVID patient's room with confirmed positive airborne viral RNA. Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected. 👏 #CleantheAir in hospitals and schools!👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all
New research shows western medicine’s traditional split between brain and body is, in fact, far from clear cut – and could provide a breakthrough for many complex conditions
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