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Blogs about Medicine & Health

10 blogs about Medicine & Health.

  1. The Chronicles of a Girl Worried AF
    My deeply personal account of living with OCD. By Alice. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Confidence
    I took a little break from sharing to get used to my new normal. A week ago I had to have some blood work done and for the first time in my memory I engaged …
    By Call Me Alice, 801 words
  2. Dr Alun Withey
    I am an academic historian of medicine and the body, and 2014 AHRC/BBC 'New Generation Thinker'. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.
    As a child in the early 1980s, Saturday morning television was a straight choice between two main contenders, each with its own dedicated and fiercely protective following. The first was ITV’s TISWAS, feared by parents …
    By Dr Alun Withey, 1,015 words
  3. Evidently Cochrane
    Aims to make Cochrane evidence really accessible, and to encourage discussion about it, through weekly blogs, which usually feature new or updated Cochrane reviews on a health topic. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Goodbye Evidently Cochrane
    Well, dear readers, after 11+ years and almost 700 blogs, it's time to say goodbye. Many of you will know that Cochrane UK closes at the end of March 2024, with the loss of NIHR …
    By Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig, 59 words
  4. In the Pipeline by Derek Lowe | Science | AAAS
    Derek Lowe’s editorially independent blog on drug discovery and the pharma industry. More info

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    Down There in the Nano-Flow
    I've often mentioned one of the biggest differences between the modern literature and the papers that I was reading while I was doing my graduate work (which era has now entered the Forty Years Ago …
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  5. The Mental Elf
    Keeping you up to date with reliable mental health research, policy & guidance. 🇬🇧 More info

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    How has the hostile environment policy worsened the mental health of people from minoritised ethnic groups?
    Briony Tatem considers a study in The Lancet, which explores the effect of immigration policy reform on mental health in people from minoritised ethnic groups in England, using longitudinal data from the UK Household Longitudinal …
    By Briony Tatem, 77 words
  6. NHS England » Blogs
    Latest blog posts from NHS England. 🇬🇧 More info

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    More than one million people get RSV jab in first ever NHS rollout
    More than one million people have been vaccinated against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), after the NHS launched a rollout of the jab for the first time in its history this autumn. Data published today shows …
    By jboshell, 70 words
  7. Plenge Gen @rplenge
    Discovery Research | Better Health. By Robert Plenge. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Advice to my younger self
    Last week I visited the University of Pennsylvania for a fireside chat with Roger Greenberg, a Professor in the Department of Cancer Biology, as part of the Wharton Undergraduate Healthcare Club (WUHC). I shared my …
    By Robert Plenge, 228 words
  8. The Savvy Diabetic | Blog
    Visit the post for more. By Joanne Milo. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Savvy Updates 11/18/24: NovoNordisk Phasing Out Human Insulin Pens, Sequel/Twiist AID, History of Artificial Pancreas
    Novo Nordisk says it is gradually phasing out human insulin pens globally by Maggie Fick for Reuters.com, 14 November 2024. Novo Nordisk is gradually ending production of human insulin pens, as it spends billions to …
    By thesavvydiabetic, 89 words
  9. Special Needs Jungle
    News, info, resources & informed opinion about Special Educational Needs, disability, children’s physical and mental health, rare disease. Campaigning to #FixSEND. 🇬🇧 More info

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    GIVEAWAY: Making Lawful Decisions by Victoria Butler-Cole KC and Steve Broach KC
    New article from Special Needs Jungle: By Samuel Moss, Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers A fab giveaway today: Making Lawful Decisions: a guide for decision-makers on acting within the law by Victoria Butler-Cole KC and Steve …
    By Special Needs Jungle, 80 words
  10. virology blog
    About viruses and viral disease. By Vincent Racaniello. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Trial By Error: My Letter to BMJ Seeking Correction to Editorial on REGAIN Trial of Mental-and-Physical-Health Rehab for Long Covid
    By David Tuller, DrPH I have recovered sufficiently from my post-election coma to send off another of my irritating letters to journals–this one to The BMJ. As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, …
    By David Tuller, 99 words