Andrew Lees
Chief Sub-Editor at The Sentinel (Stoke)
Introvert who somehow ended up on social media 😳. Stoke City supporter, running bore, theatre-goer and tennis fan. Sentinel journalist. Views are mine.
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2 months ago |
stokesentinel.co.uk | Andrew Lees
An ‘army’ of 13 runners are aiming to smash a £10,000 charity target – by running up to 100 miles each in 24 hours. The intrepid group have challenged themselves to run the same muddy trail lap of Silverdale Country Park – around 4.1 miles – up to 24 times in a ‘backyard ultra’. On the hour every hour from midday on Saturday, the group will line up by the ‘miner’s head’ landmark and start a lap.
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Sep 19, 2024 |
pn.bmj.com | Andrew Lees |Judith Clarke |Phil Smith
CLINICAL NEUROLOGYCardiff Neurology book club recently met during a working lunchtime; the more informal setting than an evening in a consultant’s home attracting a broader range of seniority and specialty than usual. The book choice, a compendium of tweets (up to 280 characters) also proved more manageable. Professor Lees is best known as a clinical neurologist and researcher into Parkinson’s disease, and for years has been a neurology voice on Twitter (now X).
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Aug 5, 2024 |
jamanetwork.com | Movement Neurosciences |Andrew Lees
Recent publications have reported that α-synuclein seed amplification assays (SAAs) have potential as biomarker tests for Parkinson disease (PD).
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Jul 30, 2024 |
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sasivimol Virameteekul |Related Disorders |Andrew Lees |Roongroj Bhidayasiri
References 1. Parkinson's disease: clinical features and diagnosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2008; 79(4): 368–376. 2, , . Pharmacological treatment of Parkinson's disease. In: TB Stoker, JC Greenland, eds. Parkinson's Disease: Pathogenesis and Clinical Aspects. Brisbane (AU): Codon Publications; 2018. 3, . Parkinson's disease: mechanisms and models. Neuron 2003; 39(6): 889–909. 4, . Pharmacokinetics of levodopa. J Neurol 2010; 257(Suppl 2): S253–S261. 5, , , .
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Nov 17, 2023 |
thelancet.com | Andrew Lees
In 1976, Ivan Illich, a Catholic priest and social theorist, published a book based on lectures he had given to physicians in Edinburgh and Nottingham. The book begins: “Within the last decade medical professional practice has become a major threat to health.” On an epic mission to eradicate suffering, medicine had reduced mankind's ability to cope with illness and pain and to preside over its own dying. Ineffective, unsafe, and often unnecessary treatments had led to iatrogenic harm.
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