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Nigel Hawkes :: Tue 20th Jul 2010

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Home births unjustly maligned

Earlier this month, lots of media attention was paid to a new analysis concluding that giving birth at home tripled the chances of the baby dying.
 

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Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 19th Jul 2010

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The case of the missing COINS

In line with a promise made before the election, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchquer, made available on 4 June the Treasury’s COINS database.
 

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Sheila Bird :: Mon 19th Jul 2010

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Combat deaths in Afghanistan: the UK's disproportionate sacrifice

The latest data on combat deaths in Afghanistan show that the gap in fatality rates between the UK and the US has widened still further.
 

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Sheila Bird :: Wed 7th Jul 2010

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Dame Deirdre’s still-unanswered questions on swine flu

Dame Deirdre Hine’s report on the 2009 Influenza Pandemic  makes a strong appeal for publication of the analyses on which the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) relied, a

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Nigel Hawkes :: Mon 5th Jul 2010

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Flu deaths: a triumph of statistics, not virology

Dame Deirdre Hine’s report on swine flu, published last Friday, acquits all involved of blame for spending £1.2 billion on a pandemic that turned out to be mild.

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Nigel Hawkes :: Thu 1st Jul 2010

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Will benefit cuts cost lives?

As the Treasury sharpens its knife and goes in search of benefit cuts, researchers at Oxford and London have published an interesting analysis of the effects of welfare on mortality.

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Nigel Hawkes :: Wed 30th Jun 2010

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Iffy maths from the TUC on pensions

The TUC, apparently reluctant to believe George Osborne’s promise to pensioners in his Budget, issued a press release on Saturday claiming that the old would have been better off over the n

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Sheila Bird :: Thu 24th Jun 2010

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Nigel Hawkes :: Thu 24th Jun 2010

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The points-based system of immigration: smoke and mirrors

According to Ed Balls, the last Government “brushed immigration under the carpet”, failing to acknowledge that it was an issue that worried Labour supporters.

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Nigel Hawkes :: Tue 22nd Jun 2010

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Dodgy counting in the civil service

How many people are employed in the public sector?

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