Too busy at the Labour Party conference to keep up with Twitter? Here’s our roundup of what you might have missed in the world of health last week.
- Ready to do your part to stop the next flu pandemic? There’s an app for that
- As little as 10% of health and wellbeing is linked to access to health care, find out what else determines health
- YouGov poll reveals Brits far more likely to want to know if they have an incurable disease
- Squeamish with blood...good news the FDA has approved the first blood sugar monitor without finger pricks
- New study looks to expose why recent outbreak of Zika was so deadly
- With Bob Dylan winning the literature Nobel last year, will this year’s science Nobels go to researchers whose work has a contemporary flair?
- Find out what origami has to do with the tree of life
From America
- After STDs were at historic lows a decade ago, the US had more than 2m cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis reported in 2016 – find out some of the reasons why
- After giving nurses an annual rise of 5% for the first 19 years of service, read how a Boston hospital looked to cut costs and boost revenues
And finally
- Anaesthesiologist...the most wild thing of all