Too busy watching (or avoiding) the Labour leadership results to focus on health on Twitter? Here’s our summary of the best of what you might have missed.
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Jeremy Hunt made a big announcement on cancer. Our research for Cancer Research UK on trends in funding for cancer shows how services are doing more with less. - Interesting polemic by Michael Marmot on the social gradient in health.
- A pregnancy souvenir: cells that are not your own. Fascinating article on fetal microchimerism.
- English devolution: the health map is about to get messier. Interesting analysis by the Health Foundation of the role of health in devolution bids.
- Some volunteers ate 6,000 calories a day to probe cause of diabetes.
- Modelling the spread of hospital bugs.
- A good summary by the Science Media Centre of expert reaction to the research on human transmission of amyloid beta.
- We’re not sure what message this creation by Ed Balls gives about obesity - but it looks delicious. His spare time is clearly being put to good use.
- Breakthroughs often meet with scepticism. We enjoyed being reminded of this Sun headline on the invention of the internet.
- There’s a new species of extinct human: Homo naledi.
From America:
- A brilliant example of how science - and political support for science - saves lives
- The case for teaching ignorance in medicine.
And finally...
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