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Here in the UK:
Coverage of @incisivehealth’s latest poll of attitudes to healthcare in Europe:
- Two-thirds of people believe we spend too little on the NHS in the UK, via @LawrenceDunhill for @HSJnews.
- And three-quarters expect services will get worse, via @denis_campbell for @guardian.
- “DNAzing” animations of genomes from @genetube for DNA Day 2016 (via @genomicsedu.)
- The top five issues worked on last year by Local Healthwatch (via @HealthwatchE).
- Smallpox once caused 10% of deaths in London. A great graphic from @MaxCRoser and OurWorldInData.org.
- So Edward Jenner, smallpox slayer, could lay claim to saving the most lives in history, argues @andrew_ward1.
Further afield:
- A big week for @incisivehealth as we open our second office, in Brussels.
- How social media is shaking up healthcare (via @wef).
- Why are our gut microbes different? @edyong209 looks at two new studies, leaving scientists with more questions than answers.
- Data de-identification explained in one infographic (via @omertene).
- Peaks in human violence since the year 1400, again from @MaxCRoser.
From across the pond:
- Interesting times for HTA in Canada (via @jovanmatic).
- Clinton is winning the backing of big pharma (via tracyinarkansas).
- Robot surgeons can improve accuracy of stitching in tricky soft tissue surgery (via @LaurenceVick).
- Why have so many people become addicted to painkillers? @latimes investigates.
- Do we need to topple a top-down mindset to improve healthcare? Dr Stephen Beeson considers in Practicing Excellence.
- Two from the @nytimes. How US states can control health care costs and why weight loss can be so hard to maintain.
- The curse of the potato. The @washingtonpost asks where we would be without French fries.
And finally:
- Slow news day? A baffling academic press release, courtesy of @StuartJRitchie.
- Combine social media, art and horses and you’ve got yourself a PhD (via @real_peerreview).
- Still struggling over the Brexit vote? @BuzzfeedUK ask Philomena Cunk for her answers.