Blogs about Medicine & Health
10 blogs about Medicine & Health.
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The Chronicles of a Girl Worried AF
My deeply personal account of living with OCD.
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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 …
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Dr Alun Withey
I am an academic historian of medicine and the body, and 2014 AHRC/BBC 'New Generation Thinker'.
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To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective Tipping is a hot issue these days. How much should you tip staff in a restaurant or hotel, or even other types of situation? Should you even tip at all? For service staff tips are …
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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.
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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 …
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In the Pipeline by Derek Lowe | Science | AAAS
Derek Lowe’s editorially independent blog on drug discovery and the pharma industry.
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Snake Antivenoms, Computed Here's a really interesting paper from the Baker lab at Washington and co-workers on a very real-world problem where machine learning looks to be able to help. Now, I realize that statement might make a …
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The Mental Elf
Keeping you up to date with reliable mental health research, policy & guidance.
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Which behaviour change techniques make digital interventions for eating disorders effective? Rena Gatzounis summarises a review investigating the effectiveness of digital interventions for eating disorders and the behaviour change techniques that lie underneath. The post Which behaviour change techniques make digital interventions for eating disorders effective? …
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NHS England » Blogs
Latest blog posts from NHS England.
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NHS supports thousands more people back into work Almost 70,000 people with mental health issues were given employment support last year as part of the NHS Talking Therapies Programme – up nearly two-thirds on the year before, latest NHS figures show. New data …
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Plenge Gen @rplenge
Discovery Research | Better Health.
By Robert Plenge. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
AI Unleashed: Transforming Drug Discovery from Theory to Practice When I last wrote about AI on this blog three years ago, I spoke of it being a tool with the potential to transform scientific discovery, but the application I described was primarily theoretical. For …
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The Savvy Diabetic | Blog
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By Joanne Milo. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Savvy Update, 1/20/25: Glucagon RXs UP … BUT, Gut Bacterium Helps Cut Sugar Cravings, FDA Bans Red Dye, Red Meat Increases Dementia Risk, Empathy-Focused Calls Boost Self-Care, FTC 2nd Report Slams PMBs, BG Levels Pasta/Pizza Spike More in America, California Insulin Delayed, Ozempic Picked for Medicare Price Reduction, Adam Brown on Self-Talk & Juggling, Clinical Trial T1D & CKD, Omnipod Next-Gen? LOTS to READ in this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Glucagon Prescriptions are UP … BUT Fall Short of Meeting Demand Special Gut Bacterium Could Help Cut Sugar Cravings FDA bans controversial red dye …
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Special Needs Jungle
News, info, resources & informed opinion about Special Educational Needs, disability, children’s physical and mental health, rare disease. Campaigning to #FixSEND.
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PAC SEND report: Slightly pointless when decision-makers don’t know what they value more—money or children’s futures? New article from Special Needs Jungle: Deep in the deserts of Turkmenistan, there’s a toxic fire that’s been burning for decades. It’s known locally as the Door to Hell. Inadvertently started by unaccountable government apparatchiks, …
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virology blog
About viruses and viral disease.
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Trial By Error: Interview with Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis, Founders/Editors of The Sick Times By David Tuller, DrPH In November, 2023, journalists Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis launched The Sick Times, a publication devoted to, per its tagline, “chronicling the Long Covid crisis.” Both of them had been covering …