Did you avert your eyes from Twitter? Catch up with the best of what you might have missed in last week in health on Twitter.
- Greater Manchester has its first Mayor and the public want him to focus on the NHS. Read our polling on attitudes to health in the Northern Powerhouse.
- Lessons from Manchester: Mike Birtwistle looks at why some of Labour’s health messages are not resonating with the public.
- The demographics changing Britain’s electoral map. Fascinating from YouGov.
- #dogsaspollingstations made a return…
- The biggest spenders on drug R&D.
- Viral infection and acute bronchitis are increasingly common causes of emergency admission for children and young people finds Quality Watch.
- Avoiding ‘medical crescendo by default’. A fascinating article on how to improve end of life care.
- Four vaccine myths and where they came from.
- Are some people getting out of doing their jobs because of purdah?
- Some messages on the NHS are not new…
- Alzheimer’s and dementia are not the same.
- There is such a thing as too many questions.
- Did Goya have autoimmune disease before his art went scary?
- Does running give your brain a boost?
- Statistics gag 1 (n=2).
- Statistics gag 2 (n=2).
From America
- Will President Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act collide with his desire to create more American jobs?
- Science ultimately gets it right, but there are some examples of where it went badly wrong beforehand.
- A brave, heartbreaking but inspiring description by Royce Young about the death of his baby daughter Eva and her lasting legacy
And finally…
- The technology may have changed, but gardening has a long history in British elections…