From weird science to Winston Churchill. Here's what caught our eye in health on Twitter.
Here at home:
- In National Autism Month, an insight into what it’s like for a teenager living with autism (via @KayFSheldon).
- For Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, a reminder of the symptoms of bowel cancer from @SherrillBeatBC.
- Pyjama fairies. Making children’s hospital stays friendlier (BBC news story shared by @VictoriBleazard).
- @CR_UK blog on variations in people’s knowledge of which cancers are linked to alcohol.
- What Twitter activity can tell us about the public debate on the future of the NHS (via @swainjo).
- The @HealthFdn explores the reasons for the provider deficit.
- Always handy (and always growing) – the latest version of @nhsconfed’s NHS Acronym Buster.
- While @RichardTaunt and @DrDKilroy bust some NHS jargon too.
From around the world:
- Many of the medicines we take were only tested on men. Alyson McGregor discusses the implications for women in her @TEDTalks.
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How your e-health records could change genetics research (via rahman_nazneen). - Drones are being used to accelerate HIV testing and diagnosis in Malawi (via @guardian).
- Why Nestlé is starting to behave like big pharma (via @RebeccaDRobbins).
And finally…
- The note Winston Churchill’s doctor gave him for his stay in the US during prohibition (via @rogerkimball).
- And some weird science - the curator forced to kill their out-of-control bio-art exhibit.