Sharing and caring for better health

At your last medical scientific conference were you encouraged to tweet? And would you have been surprised if the organisers had asked you not to? Delegates at the American Diabetes Association scientific meeting in June found themselves in that position, being asked not to share photographs of presented slides through social media. As Dara Mohammadi explains (doi:10.1136/bmj.j3966), many delegates turned to Twitter to question the ADA’s draconian approach—more indeed than had been tweeting the conference proceedings.

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