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Sheila Bird :: Mon 21st Jun 2010

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Counting the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Daily Telegraph and other media are today reporting newly released figures that, out of its reserves, UK has spent £8.22 and £9.9 billion  respectively for the militar

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Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 21st Jun 2010

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Don’t count the numbers, count the spoons

The bigger a study, the better? That’s an assumption often made. But even studies that knock us out by their sheer size may be wrong.

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Nigel Hawkes :: Thu 17th Jun 2010

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Eeyore takes a look at Britain

Feeling cheerful? Then take a dip into a report that emerged recently from the Cabinet Office.

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Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 14th Jun 2010

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How many have died in Iraq?

The conflict in Iraq since the US-led invasion of March 2003 has claimed many thousands of lives. But how many, exactly?

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Nigel Hawkes :: Tue 8th Jun 2010

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Hymning the praises of Welsh

It’s no surprise that the Welsh Language Board wants to push the teaching of Welsh. That’s its job.

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Sheila Bird :: Fri 4th Jun 2010

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NICE and public health science challenged by MS risk sharing scheme

The most striking revelation in a quarter of comments in BMJ.com on the Department of Health’s risk sharing scheme for multiple sclerosis (MS) drugs is its undermining of subseq

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Nigel Hawkes :: Fri 4th Jun 2010

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NHS nil, Drug Industry 5: how not to run a risk-sharing trial

The new Government has promised to establish a system in which the price paid for drugs represents the value they bring to patients.

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Nigel Hawkes :: Wed 2nd Jun 2010

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Are your statistics really necessary?

This week farmers in the UK and Ireland are labouring to complete an agricultural census for the European Union.

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Nigel Hawkes :: Tue 1st Jun 2010

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Coroners' data: is secrecy serving the public interest?

The coroner who held the inquests into the victims of Harold Shipman has said that all deaths of babies in hospital should be reported to the local coroner.

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Nigel Hawkes :: Tue 1st Jun 2010

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Thin pickings from the violent crime statistics

Just how likely is it that you – or your teenage son – will be attacked by a stranger in the street?

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