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Reading your bloodwork without panic
How to open a set of results without your stomach dropping — what a reference range actually means, which numbers move for dull reasons, and when to ring somebody today.
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Results, trials and appointments — what the evidence says and where it runs out.
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A1c, and what it is not
What glycated haemoglobin actually measures, the units confusion nobody warns you about, the things that make it lie, and why it is a poor scoreboard for a fortnight.
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Cardiovascular outcomes: what SELECT showed
The trial that changed how clinicians talk about these drugs — who was in it, what it actually found, how big the effect was in plain terms, and the claims stacked on top of it.
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Kidney numbers, and what FLOW showed
eGFR, creatinine and albumin explained without jargon, what the FLOW trial found in people with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease, and the everyday kidney risk that matters more.
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Thyroid and GLP-1: what is known
The rodent finding behind the warning label, what human data has and has not shown since, what it means if you already take levothyroxine, and where the honest uncertainty sits.
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Type 2 and GLP-1: a plain summary
What these medicines do for type 2 diabetes, what the outcome trials found, the hypoglycaemia and retinopathy questions, and the practical things that change in ordinary care.
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Reading a trial without a PhD
The method our reading group uses on every paper — five questions, in order, that let anyone tell what a study actually showed from what people are claiming it showed.
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Talking to your GP when time is short
How to get something useful out of ten minutes — the one-page prep, the opening sentence that changes the appointment, and what to ask for in writing before you leave.
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Plateaus: what is happening, and what helps
Why change slows or stops, what the trial curves actually look like, what is worth checking, and why a plateau is a physiological event rather than a verdict on you.
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Coming off: what to expect
Stopping is an ordinary shape, not a failure — what the withdrawal trials found, what the weeks afterwards tend to feel like, and what is worth arranging first.