Too busy in the sunshine for Twitter? Fear not, here’s our summary of the best of what you might have missed on health.
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The number of centenarians has grown by 72% in a decade. - “Promote it, measure it, do everything we can to make it better.” Jonathan Tomlinson on why continuity of care matters, why it has declined and what we can do to reverse this.
- Celebrating older people by improving cancer services. Jagtar Dhanda and John Young blog on older people and cancer.
- After your big break in health policy and communications? Read all about our internship scheme (which pays the London Living Wage so that no one should be restricted in applying).
- The qualities of a true friend, according to Molly-Raine Adams, aged 7.
- Twitter has a 136 page (not character) manual to help politicians stay out of trouble.
- The proportion of smokers in the UK has reduced from 21% in 2010 to 18.3% in 2014.
- Polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria.
- What does Genomics England do with your data?
- An interesting blog examining the case for earmarking so-called ‘sin taxes’?
- How music can help people living with dementia.
- “Because I couldn't stand the sight of blood and wasn't good at science, medicine was never for me.” An interesting interview with Alistair Burt.
- A study suggests that chemotherapy during pregnancy doesn’t appear to harm babies.
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Some amazing pictures of the blood super moon. - Level of education and the inequality in who dies from car crashes.
- Remembering Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Britain’s first female doctor.
And finally…
- Type 1 and type 2 statistical errors explained.