Medicine Posts
Is the NHS now putting the planet before patients?
Senior managers are boasting about the environmental benefits of fewer face-to-face appointments
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Matt Hancock’s NHS power grab
His reforms provide enormous scope for ministers to meddle in our everyday lives
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Dementia: we need action, not awareness
The response to Barbara Windsor’s diagnosis captured society’s low horizons
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Dementia and the NHS
What’s required is a cure, not more ‘awareness’ as Barbara Windsor’s husband announces the actress has been diagnosed with alzheimer’s disease
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The dogma of wellbeing
With the Office for National Statistics, the British Medical Association and the Duke of Cambridge all behind the concept, a critique is long overdue
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Drugs, devices and digital media
As the first line of the blues song might now have it, I went down to the Boots audiology specialist.
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Obesity busybodies turn down the heat
Today’s moribund capitalism always tries to kill several birds with the same cheap stone.
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Dementia: how health nudging works
The claim that dementia can be prevented by lifestyle changes was convenient PR – but remains unproven
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Next killer app for smartphone: personalised healthcare
Will our smartphones one day tell us if a heart attack is on its way, and nanosensors in our bodies dispense the medicine to deal with it? Eric Topol thinks so.
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Big Pharma’s little critics
One defence of drug manufacturers, and three attacks on modern medicine, offer much. But none quite explains Big Pharma’s crisis of scientific and technological innovation.
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Pfizer’s decision to close its UK research facility was born of an industry-wide angst about medical discovery.
Read the full article...Knee-jerk reactions: exercise and personal health
In exercise and personal health, ‘one must now mix egoism with electronics’
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#IOPC IN THE NEWS AGAIN. Pix: DG Rachel Watson; Acting Deputy DG Kathie Cashell;
Amanda Rowe and Steve Noonann, both Acting Directors, Operations.
That's a lot of acting! No wonder the IOPC's report never saw the light of day.
Are we a bit flaccid, perhaps?
A dubious editorial decision by the Daily Mail that risks glorifying one of the most evil men in history. Who cares about his air fryer recipes?