World AIDS Day: calls for better HIV testing
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Any stick is good enough to beat the drinkers with
Many papers today ran a story about the number of GP consultations in Scotland that involved alcohol as a factor.
King's Fund to the rescue of Social Attitudes Survey
The King’s Fund has stepped in to help preserve a time series of public attitudes to health and the NHS which had been threatened by the Department of Health pulling the plug.<
Stumped by claims of "accurate" diagnosis
Radio 4’s Today programme and at least two newspapers, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, reported news earlier this week from the Institute of Psychiatry in London o
BMA poll tests the limits of credibility
In June 2009, the British Medical Association complained about the GP Patient Survey.
Have a heart!
American cardiologists are aghast at the results of a survey of 1,933 people to measure how many matched all seven co
Different strokes for different folks
“Stroke takes enormous toll on Hollywood stars” reads a press release for a study pr
Much ado about New York abortions
Anti-abortion campaigners in New York have recently been shocked by the discovery that 41 per cent of pregnancies in the city end in terminations.
Waiting times raise the political temperature
Andrew Lansley’s appearance before the Health Select Committee on December 12 produced an argument fit for the fourth form.
