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  (delete as necessary)   Today it is revealed that GPs are failing /getting worse at dementia detection/sending patients to A+E/offering health checks/objecting to telehealth. This is important because we need to have an external locus of blame/policy to support the technology industry/policy to support the pharmaceutical industry/policy popular with people also fit enough and […]

The media went crazy for a recent research paper that showed some benefit in long term antibiotic use for some patients with back pain. But was this science or sensationalism, is talk of a Nobel prize premature, and what of the author’s potential conflicts of interest? Margaret McCartney investigates Free link here

Prove it!-2 This was accompanied by an early edition of Dr Spock, a jar of blackeyed peas to demonstrate absolute and relative risks, and a bag of chocolate. It was great fun. This talk was given to primary 6s. They were especially interested in placebos and nocebos. Will do more on this next time. Spelling […]

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BMJ article here http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2830

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Listen again http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rvpq5   References I used   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23539308 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582015/ http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599979_eng.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582015/#R1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20040880 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673611607496 http://jp.physoc.org/content/590/5/1077.long   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002914905001888   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20195181   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467903   http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6823/9/3/abstract/  

Inside Health tonight – measles. The  references I’ve used are below. Just over 80% of children in London have had two MMR vaccines by age 5. We need 95% coverage to prevent outbreaks. Many other areas in England are at similar perilous levels. Lots of people were misled by the MMR scare. There is no […]