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It was with some astonishment, when looking through Pubmed last week, that I stumbled upon a peer reviewed article that drew its content from a rather unexpected source – Twitter of all things.



In their article in The American Journal of Infection Control, Scanfeld and colleagues used Twitter status updates mentioning antibiotics to explore evidence of misunderstanding or misuse of antibiotics. 1,000 Twitter… Continue

Since the dawn of Molecular Biology in the 1930s an overwhelming body of research has helped mankind to develop an understanding of how life works at its most basic level. With this molecular knowledge came rational drug design and the ability to no longer have to accept the hand that nature dealt us at birth. Diseases which were once a death sentence are today treatable.



The pace of research in the last two decades was relentless and soon it became apparent that a “one size fits… Continue

Last week’s pre-budget report form Alistair Darling does not make for happy reading. The main headline grabbers are the one-off tax on bank bonuses over £25,000 and an increase in National Insurance contributions from April 2011. Also in the report are plans to scale back spending on the NHS IT scheme (NPfIT) in England. The project, rolled out from 2005, comes with a pretty hefty price tag at over £12 billion.



In the report the Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, aims to save £600… Continue