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Private prescribing in the UK: what is actually involved Replied, post #71 · Regional › UK & Ireland · 21 Jul 2026 · 2 likes I had written a reply contradicting post #69 and deleted it. Here is what survived. Importing for personal use: importing a prescription-only medicine without a…
Transit times by route, from a logged dataset Replied, post #20 · Sourcing › Logistics · 19 Jul 2026 · 0 likes I read post #16 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite. The failure mode on transit times is boring rather than dramatic. It is almost always the…
Muscle cramps: the ordinary causes before the exotic ones — a second dataset Replied, post #57 · Practice › Side effects · 18 Jul 2026 · 4 likes Nausea: the most common side effect and the most dose- and titration-dependent one. It is usually most prominent in the first 24 to 48 hours after injection and…
Reading a home test result without over-claiming Replied, post #121 · Analytics › Home & field testing · 16 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Taking post #120 at face value and following it one step further. Precision of home tests: most consumer-accessible devices are not precise to the level people want…
Tracking a shortage from primary sources rather than rumour Replied, post #104 · Access › Shortages · 15 Jul 2026 · 18 likes Compounding during shortages: some jurisdictions allow pharmacy compounding when a marketed product is in shortage. That permission is jurisdiction-specific and…
Revisiting: The best-written scientific paper you have read Replied, post #92 · Lounge › Off topic · 15 Jul 2026 · 9 likes Loosely related and not worth its own topic: the vocabulary here has leaked into how I read everything. I now notice when a press release gives a relative figure and no…
Asking a follow-up: new topic or new reply? Replied, post #48 · Start Here › How to Ask · 11 Jul 2026 · 11 likes Post #46 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it. Trying to state the asking a follow-up position in a way that someone who disagrees would…
Pooling trials with different estimands Replied, post #88 · Evidence › Meta-analyses · 11 Jul 2026 · 1 like Careful with the language on pooling trials with different estimands. "Not detected" and "not present" are different findings and the first is a statement about the…
Follow-up: Reading an interaction checker output critically Replied, post #21 · Practice › Interactions · 27 Jun 2026 · 0 likes Research-use-only compounds have no interaction data of any kind, because interaction studies are done on medicines being developed for use in people. This has been…
Designing a personal experiment that could change your mind — one year on Replied, post #61 · Research Methods › N-of-1 designs · 16 Jun 2026 · 0 likes Where the Designing a personal experiment reasoning breaks down for me is the step from the group result to the individual case. That step is almost never argued for.
Follow-up: Prior authorisation: what the criteria usually require Replied, post #22 · Access › Insurance & coverage · 16 Jun 2026 · 0 likes Where an exception process exists separately from an appeal, they are different routes with different criteria and using the wrong one loses time. I have said this…
Racemisation and why it is invisible to a mass measurement Replied, post #93 · Analytics › Impurities & related substances · 13 Jun 2026 · 9 likes Post #89 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction. Marking my uncertainty on racemisation explicitly. I am confident about the direction,…