Glasgow ‘effect’  http://www.gcph.co.uk/publications/635_history_politics_and_vulnerability_explaining_excess_mortality   Asbestos https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1522094/ Click to access exposure.pdf Click to access Asbestos_general_informtation.pdf http://pmj.bmj.com/content/80/940/72

HPV http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.31094/full  modelling study – ? how long the vaccine will work well for, longest studies 10 years http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/hv.29532, http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/8/e015867, https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/cix797/4283361?redirected england currently https://www.gov.uk/guidance/cervical-screening-programme-overview HPB pilots: colposcopy rates go up at least at first Click to access Julia-Palmer-HPV-Colposcopy-BAC-ASM.pdf https://www.bsccp.org.uk/assets/file/uploads/resources/NHSCSP_20_Colposcopy_and_Programme_Management_(3rd_Edition)_(2).pdffor those women who were referred to colposcopy, the positive predictive value for high-grade disease (CIN2+) varied from 9.1% to […]

bear in mind that I can only tweet what I said – there is no point in repeating someone else’s point in council – it wastes time.   things I said today: we should surely move to a central recording system of all declarations of interest – it’s not always obvious when a conflict arises […]

English surveillance programme for antimicrobial utilisation and resistance ESPAUR 4th report October 2017 Click to access ESPAUR_report_2017_.pdf https://academic.oup.com/jac/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jac/dkx323/4161408/Trends-and-patterns-in-antibiotic-prescribing resistance systematic review bmj 2010 http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2096 Individuals prescribed an antibiotic in primary care for a respiratory or urinary infection develop bacterial resistance to that antibiotic. The effect is greatest in the month immediately after treatment but may […]

Dr Google https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/doctors-gps-dr-google-patient-list/   formal evaluation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815378/ in people referred to hospital, other studies found using the web to prepare increased anxiety levels https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5487739/ but overall mixed result German study published in 2017 examined ways that people use internet for web info https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00103-017-2549-2 some early US data saying that potential for some symptoms of obsessional […]

  mesh National Hip and Joint registry MHRA comment NY study  Cochrane reviews    J shaped curves SIGN guidance   

Telephone triage study  safety study ESTEEM study 

press release http://www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/news.aspx?itemid=4646&itemTitle=One+in+four+girls+is+depressed+at+age+14%2c+new+study+reveals&sitesectionid=27&sitesectiontitle=News&returnlink=news.aspx%3fsitesectionid%3d27%26sitesectiontitle%3dNews headlined ‘One in four girls is depressed’ and the first line New research shows a quarter of girls (24%) and one in 10 boys (9%) are depressed at age 14 how do you diagnose depression ? http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/healthadvice/problemsdisorders/depressionkeyfacts.aspx Click to access bluebook.pdf Moods and Feelings Questionnaire      3) third party info parents […]

Rethink Mental Illness charity  – https://www.rethink.org/news-views/2017/09/rethink-schizophrenia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23459877 bad use e.g. http://fortune.com/2017/07/27/scaramucci-priebus-schizophrenic/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidschrieberg1/2017/08/20/pardon-me-britain-your-brexit-schizophrenia-is-showing/#1b4c1cd72569 wrong use e.g. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/haoues-seniguer/world-schizophrenic-charlie-hebdo_b_6473824.html academic studies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25937459 various calls over time for a renaming http://www.schres-journal.com/article/S0920-9964(15)00061-4/abstract would it help? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092099641630175X don’t know what people with the diagnosis of schizophrenia think Click to access eip-guidance.pdf people with schizophrenia are more likely to do themselves harm […]

a six part series for BBC Radio Scotland, called Cradle to Grave and 2. A half hour programme for Radio 4 called Too Much Medicine