Worrying about the Spending Review and not Twitter? Here is our summary of the best of what you might have missed.
- Conduct your own spending review with the help of the IFS.
- Beyond statistics. How patient blogs can provide invaluable insights into lived experience with cancer.
- Health experts are explaining drug-resistant bacteria poorly.
- How does antibiotic resistance develop?
- Where the polls went wrong. Fascinating analysis.
- First dogs, now pigeons. The role of animals in diagnosing cancer continues to grow.
- Will rockstar scientists ever exist?
- An axe-wielding microbiologist & a disease-obsessed historian formed a potent brew that even a modern day microbe can’t resist.
- The role of worms in strengthening the immune system.
- Aussie paramedics have stopped asking patients to name the PM to test their cognition – apparently there have been too many changes!
From America:
- One health benefit of the Affordable Care Act. President Obama hasn’t smoked a cigarette since its passage.
- A former firefighter has received a full face transplant. Just incredible.
- A woman has received a cyborg-like implant that can be upgraded with gesture-recognition technology.
And finally…
- Is speaking English bad for you?
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