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Dec 5, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Alain Braillon
Dear EditorO’Dowd’s comments about a narrative review about the tactics from the tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed industries vs researchers should not have accepted gross misconceptions.(1) First, intimidation rarely occurs: very few researchers tackle these industries despite the fact that they are killing people on a large scale.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Alain Braillon
Dear EditorCerdá and Krawczyk are rightly concerned by the US opioid overdose crisis.(1) However, I’m afraid that they failed to implement their call for “an evidence based approach”. Indeed, we must confess that for complex societal issues evidence is weak and is derived from hypotheses conceived within an ideology.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Alain Braillon
News & ViewsJunk food TV adverts:...
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Alain Braillon
Dear EditorCommercial determinants of infant and child health: why scapegoating private practitioners?
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Alain Braillon
Dear EditorThe Royal College of Psychiatrists’ concern that adults with a severe mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, have a life expectancy 15 to 20 years below the general population is welcome (1) but it cannot withstand critical scrutiny. Firstly, is the College’s estimate that around two thirds were from preventable conditions such as respiratory disease, heart disease, and liver disease (1) news?
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
mja.com.au | Alain Braillon
Med J Aust 2024; 221 (7): . || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52441 Published online: 7 October 2024 To the Editor: Hui and colleagues must be commended for underscoring that a program with centralisation should be a cornerstone for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance.1 Indeed, with funding for quality assurance, it allows for monitoring of uptake to guarantee effectiveness and equitability. However, their narrative review deserved robust comments.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Alain Braillon
Dear Editor Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.” Voltaire. How can “public health leaders and campaigners welcome the UK government’s announcement that it will legislate to ban advertisements for junk food on television before 9 pm as part of efforts to tackle childhood obesity”?(1)On the substance, the issue is less about TV than about social media.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Alain Braillon
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News & ViewsRisk minimisation...
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Alain Braillon
Dear EditorMahase’s news commenting on the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) program for Risk Minimization Measures to prevent topiramate use during pregnancy (contraindication in women of childbearing potential unless there is no alternative and they agree to use birth control and take a pregnancy test before starting treatment) deserves questions. Firstly, how to by-pass a devastating global inertia?
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alain Braillon
CORRESPONDENCE Folic acid supplementation in women of childbearing age with epilepsy: Missing the forest for the trees? First published: 05 June 2024 No abstract is available for this article. REFERENCES Crawford, P. (2002). Interactions between antiepileptic drugs and hormonal contraception. CNS Drugs, 16(4), 263–272. Diav-Citrin, O., Shechtman, S., Zvi, N., Finkel-Pekarsky, V., & Ornoy, A. (2017). Is it safe to use lamotrigine during pregnancy?
