Sex sells papers, so today’s made hay with new figures for sexually-transmitted diseases. “Drunk ladettes fuel a boom in STIs” was the Daily Express headline.

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.

The BBC, and other media sources, report that operating a windscreen washer without added screenwash increases the risk of catching Legionnaires’ disease.

The latest figures for deaths from H1N1 flu, published by the Health Protection Agency for week 48, raise an interesting question. 

The latest figures for patients hospitalized in England for suspect swine flu provide an opportunity to compare the current cases with those in the first wave in July.

The risks to pregnant women from swine flu are real. Yet many may still resist vaccination because they fear that carries an even greater risk. What do the data so far tell us?

Cases of H1N1 have been creeping up again, with Scotland - where children went back to school several weeks earlier - leading the way. 

Congratulations to Health Protection Agency (HPA) on this week’s swine flu update, available here.

The day after the President of the Royal Statistical Society wrote to the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, about the proper collection of key H1N1 data and statistical reporting standards, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) posted some limited pearls of wisdom.

Yesterday Sheila Bird pinpointed on this website the key questions that needed answering about swine flu in the