Too busy checking winter weather forecasts and train timetables to keep up with Twitter? Here's our roundup of what you might have missed in the world of health on Twitter last week.
- De-extinction may be on the horizon with scientists assembling the genome of a bird that went extinct 700 years ago
- Researchers at @HealthFdn are now saying that long-term damage is being done to children by day-to-day stress in early years
- Yet another reason why sitting down all day is not good for your health
- For anyone confused about what chemical engineering includes, read on here
- Despite 7 in 10 adults in England having two or more unhealthy risk factors, most tools to support behaviour change only focus on a single risk factor writes @HarryAEvans for the @TheKingsFund
- More uses for virtual reality in health, as Ophthalmology trainees learn new skills for highly specialised microsurgery
- A new mechanism has been found by researchers at @sangerinstitute that might be essential for organ repair, immune responses and cancer growth
- Researchers @aberdeenuni have made a new #discovery that could help in the fight against a #fungus that kills around 200,000 people every year
- @NUHPlayServices making sure that patients don’t miss out on all the snow day fun
- Find out about the robot helping kids with cancer fight lonelines
Across the pond
- For the first time in US history, health care is the country’s largest employer - find out what this might mean for patients and prices across the system
And finally
- Don’t say the NHS isn’t focused on prevention – here are their helpful tips for walking in the snow