Too busy eating Thanksgiving turkey to take in Twitter? Here’s our summary of what you might have missed on health.
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The editor of the Health Service Journal on Simon Stevens’ role in resetting the narrative on health spending. - Our research on how efforts to assess and improve health quality could impact on the marginal that will decide the next election.
- Comparative health expenditure. The UK is alone in having flatlined in recent years.
- Last week saw the duty of candour and fit and proper persons requirement go live.
- What activity can help your health?
- An award-winning piece on faceblindness.
- An atlas of genetic time (or why time in medicine matters more than you might think).
- Mortality in the North was higher than in the South even when GDP was higher.
- The top ten Twitter fails of all time.
- “UK imports young, sprightly migrants and exports old creaky ones.” A different perspective on migration and health.
- There are 1.2 doctors per 1,000 people in Asia/Pacific vs the OECD average of 3.2.
From America:
- The risk of breast cancer recurrence in Canada has plummeted.
- An alternative to Obamacare from the right.
- Now it is #Decembeard here is the average value of a Mo in the USA.
And finally…
- Some health problems transcend geography.
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