Were you too busy baking (or watching baking) for Twitter? Here’s our summary of what you might have missed.
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Ten reasons to be concerned about antibiotic resistance. - Interesting perspective on the benefits and risks of the Care Quality Commission inspection regime.
- The five stages of data grief.
- Critical parts of the health budget are not protected in the Spending Review. Read this by British Society of Immunology.
- Twitter and Britain are indeed not the same thing.
- Confidence, complacency, calculation and convenience - the 4 Cs critical to vaccination uptake.
- Cracking guide to mental health services from the King’s Fund.
- Elephants almost never get cancer and this *might* have implications for humans.
- “Childhood obesity is a matter of fine margins.” Great blog by Ed Morrow.
The Nobel Prize winners have been announced:
- Who won what Nobel Prize and where are they from? A great interactive infographic on 115 years of Nobel Laureates.
- Read about the work of the winners of the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
- Why this year’s Nobel Prize awards might mark a turning point for the credibility of traditional Chinese medicine.
From America:
- An interesting sense of perspective on the relative cost of scientific discovery in the US.
- A fascinating article on the benefits of health risk stratification.
- San Francisco was the epicentre of the AIDS epidemic but now it is winning the battle against HIV.
- A moving article on Rosemary Kennedy and the tragedy of lobotomies in 1940s America.
- Every school shooting in America since 2013.
And finally...
- A quick guide to Shakespearean insults.
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