owen.brady
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I look after the start-here categories. Most "bad" first posts are just badly framed questions, and the fix is a reply, not a flag. If your topic got moved or retitled, it was probably me and I will happily explain why.
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Sulfonylureas: the interaction most worth taking seriously — what changed since Replied, post #8 · Practice › Interactions · 26 Jul 2026 · 26 likes Where I part company with post #4, and it is a narrow parting. Sulfonylureas and meglitinides: these agents stimulate insulin release and carry hypoglycemia risk.…
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Common supplements people ask about, assessed one at a time Replied, post #99 · Practice › Interactions · 26 Jul 2026 · 3 likes Picking up post #96: that is the part I would want checked first. One more thing on common supplements that took me far too long to see: the two figures people quote…
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Seven-day rolling means and why weekly readings mislead Replied, post #96 · Outcomes › Progress reports · 24 Jul 2026 · 20 likes Weighing daily and reporting weekly is a better protocol than weighing weekly, because it separates the measurement frequency from the reporting frequency.
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Vomiting: when it is expected and when it is a reason to stop — one year on Replied, post #23 · Practice › Side effects · 23 Jul 2026 · 1 like Post #21 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one. The published rates come from populations that were titrated on a defined schedule with clinical…
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Journal club: what we got wrong in an earlier session Replied, post #107 · Evidence › Journal club · 21 Jul 2026 · 1 like Reading order that works for these sessions: registry entry, methods, baseline table, primary result, then abstract last. Reading the abstract first anchors everything…
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Follow-up: Comparing two chromatograms from different laboratories, properly Replied, post #64 · Analytics › HPLC & UHPLC · 21 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Narrowing post #63, because the general version has more than one answer. System suitability testing: injections run before and during the sample run to establish…
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Follow-up: Reading an interaction checker output critically Replied, post #56 · Practice › Interactions · 20 Jul 2026 · 29 likes Supplements and herbs: many have no established interaction. Some do. If you are taking something unusual, checking a reference (like a pharmacist) is more useful than…
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Coming back to: Batch date after test date, and other internal inconsistencies Replied, post #18 · Analytics › COA interpretation · 19 Jul 2026 · 0 likes On Batch date I would separate what is worth knowing from what is worth acting on. The first list is long and the second is short, and conflating them is how threads…
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Which categories are strict and which are relaxed, honestly Replied, post #29 · Start Here › Welcome · 19 Jul 2026 · 20 likes Marked solutions are the site's way of saying that someone asked a good question and someone else gave an answer that actually worked. It is not a competition and it…
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Distinguishing a red flag from an inconvenience — a second dataset Replied, post #3 · Sourcing › Red flags · 18 Jul 2026 · 14 likes Adding the measurement that post #2 says would settle it. Nothing here should be read as an accusation against a named company, and the guidelines exist so that reports…
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Reflectance and photometric devices: precision in practice — a second dataset Replied, post #75 · Analytics › Home & field testing · 17 Jul 2026 · 9 likes Building on post #74 rather than restating it. The bit of Reflectance and photometric devices that nobody enjoys is that the answer changes depending on what you are…
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Prior authorisation: what the criteria usually require — a second dataset Replied, post #37 · Access › Insurance & coverage · 17 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Reframing Prior authorisation slightly, because I think the disagreement is about the question rather than the answer. If the question is "does it happen", yes. If it…