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Breast cancer recurrence / metastasis and alcohol

Women who have had a diagnosis of breast cancer (particularly those who have had oestrogen-positive breast cancer) are advised to stick to no more than 5 units of alcohol a week by the World Cancer Research Fund.

Note: 1 glass of wine (175 ml) is about 2.3 units. So that is only 2 glasses of wine a week. Yikes!

For more info on recent evidence explained by Dr Liz O'Riordan (see link).

twitter.com/Liz_ORiordan/statu

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15 Zotero tutorials all in one place,
from Mushtaq Bilal's blue bird account

twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/st

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Where art and medicine collide

2023 brings us a free exhibition of photographs of medical objects from the Royal College of Physicians' museum stores: Unfamiliar

The exhibition gives a new look at objects from the RCPs' museum collections through Theo Deproost's photos and Debbie Jegede's clinical curiosity.

The exhibition is showing 23 January - 28 July 2023

More info: history.rcplondon.ac.uk/

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Assessment of the quality of meta-analyses

Because meta-analyses are increasingly prevalent and cited in the medical literature, it is important that tools are available to assess their methodological quality.

For clinical trials, a check to see if the analyses follow the QUORUM (Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses) guidelines is advised.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/

A short-hand approach found that 4 key areas are important to the quality of meta-analyses:
- data sources
- analysis of individual studies
- meta-analysis methods
- interpretation

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/260539

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If you like walking, and you're up for a challenge in 2023, take a look at the slowWays.org thread on another app.
twitter.com/DanRavenEllison/st
And here is the website: beta.slowways.org/

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For more information:
renshaw01.substack.com/p/comin

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Open science and open pharma ... (and medical writing).

[Reposting with hashtags]

As Open Pharma don't seem to be on Mastodon, I am tooting one of their posts from another app.

Open Pharma's post promotes a special issue of Medical Writing (the journal of EMWA) available free. Follow the link to access the entire issue.
journal.emwa.org/media/4655/me

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Open science and open pharma .. (and medical writing).

As Open Pharma don't seem to be on Mastodon, I am tooting one of their posts from another app.

Open Pharma's post promotes a special issue of Medical Writing (the journal of EMWA) available free. Follow the link to access the entire issue.
journal.emwa.org/open-science-

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More on integrating research tools

How to combine Google Scholar, Zotero, Research Rabbit and Obsidian to streamline your literature reviews.
A thread by Ruben Dario Palacio on the blue bird app, see the link below:

twitter.com/rdpalacio/status/1

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Streamlining literature review and note taking

Mushtaq Bilal PhD has developed a guide to combing two free tools to fast-track your research.

twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/st

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Obsidian. The basics.

In a great thread on the blue bird app, Mushtaq Bilal PhD has provided just the right amount of information to start using the Obsidian note taking app (link below).

twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/st

With its ability to hyperlink between pages and provide a visual overview of the relationship between notes, Obsidian looks like it might be very useful for visual writers, and a contender to replace OneNote on my desktop. And, according to Obsidian help pages*, there is a way of importing your OneNote and EverNote books into Obsidian. Now, if only I could learn how to send emails to Obsidian...

Here is the link to the download page:
obsidian.md/

*The app's help pages are difficult to understand for those of us with no coding skills at all.

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In Her Name week.

This week (5th-11th December) is In Her Name week, a week in which we remember women lost to ovarian cancer.

Every year 295,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Survival rates depend on the stage at which the cancer is detected. Almost 95% of women detected at stage 1 will survive their cancer for 5+ years.

For women diagnosed at stage 4 (after metastasis or spread away from the ovaries to other organs), 15% will survive for 5 years.

Common signs and symptoms are shown in the diagram.

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25 of the BBC 100 women of the year 2022 are inspiring or influential women in STEM/health fields. The list includes (in no particular order a selection from around the globe): Niloufar Bayanin (Iranian Ecologist), Sandy Cabrera Arteaga (Honduran reproductive rights advocate), Kimiko Hirata (Japanese climate campaigner), Asonele Kotu (South African tech entrepeneur), Naja Lyberth (Greenland psychologist), Yuliia Paievska (Ukrainian paramedic), Jane Rigby (Astronomer and astrophysicist), and Sofía Heinonen (Argentinian conservationist). For more information on these and other inspiring women, check out:
bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-7

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ResearchRabbit for Dummies.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/159
Thank you to Mushtaq Bilal Phd on the blue bird for his explanation on how to master ResearchRabbit in 10 mins. If I can do it, you can too!

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Writing a review? Have you used literature mapping tools?

If you want to know about the different literature mapping methods, here is an overview: enago.com/academy/literature-m [Warning this article contains information about tools that are no longer supported]

A more up-to-date blog is here: aarontay.medium.com/3-new-tool [Complete with links to the tools]

@AaronTay has an expanded list of tools here: musingsaboutlibrarianship.blog

Sadly Cocites and Citation Gecko are no longer being supported.

I've tried ResearchRabbit, linking with my Zotero database. I'd be interested to hear about your experiences with these tools.

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More on science/medical writing.
ISMPP on bird app have asked: "What is the best format for (PLS)?"

Click for the full article to find out more: buff.ly/3UKpRw2

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Academic writing tips

(linking to information posted MushtaqBilalPhD on bird app)
I don't know if this is going to work, but here is the unrolled thread:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/159
Including tips from:

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Tomorrow is Iron Deficiency Day (26th November).
Iron deficiency is one of the most common nutrient deficiencies, affecting 30% of the world's population. Iron deficiency anaemia is a potentially serious condition in menstruating girls and women, but also affects children, pregnant women, and both men and women with: heart failure, chronic kidney disease and inflammatory bowel disease. For more info: facebook.com/irondeficiencyday
mayoclinic.org/diseases-condit
takeironseriously.com/

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Journal suggesters

Each of the large publishers has their own journal suggester.

Paste your abstract in the white rectangular box.

Then click on "Reveal Suggested Journals" at the bottom of your screen.

It will give you a list of suggested journals with the most relevant ones on top.
Thanks to @MustaqBilalPhD on the bird app for the original idea.

Here are a few suggester URLs:
journalsuggester.springer.com/
authorservices.taylorandfranci
journalfinder.wiley.com/search
journalguide.com/ [Possibly independent]

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World Science Forum 2022 Media for Social Justice Fellowships
Support and promote science from the 'global south.'

One of WSF2022’s main objectives is to support the profession of science journalism in these quite difficult economic times. In the ‘global south’, where issues of importance to local, national and regional peoples are often a ‘hard sell’ at the global level and lack media coverage, the WSF2022 theme of “Science for Social Justice” strikes a definite chord.

Learn more about it here:
Science for Social Justice: On the Road to the World Science Forum, Cape Town, 6 – 9 December, 2022 youtube.com/watch?v=8RICTV804g

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