This is splendid. Telly Savalas does a travelogue on Birmingham, when multi-lane highways were symbols of progress. A lot of the concrete Savalas drools over has now gone, while the older buildings remain. The final reverse zoom shot seems to be taken not far from from my office at Aston University.
More on how this bizarre [...]
Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 22)
Here are my brief thoughts on the possible increase in the use of prescribing pharmacists in primary care in the UK.
According to the Charity Commission, The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) received £120,695 in corporate donations last year. Although the accounts do not break down to an individual company’s donations, the NRAS do thank their corporate donors on their website. These donors include a number of drug companies, one being Bristol Myers Squibb.
Today NICE ruled [...]
I currently have a large reference database (with associated PDFs) running on Endnote 9.0 on my Macbook, which integrates nicely with Word 2004. I have the disc for Word 2008, but am holding off installing it, because it does not operate even with the most recent version of Endnote. Neither does it work with Pages. [...]
Led and co-ordinated by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, European Immunisation Week aims to promote immunisation through targeted advocacy and communication, and the immunisation of high-risk groups.
The NHS is holding a conference today about raising vaccine uptake in London, a particularly hard hit area, and have a rather good little advert about vaccination [...]
Nothing provokes debate amongst lecturers more than Powerpoint. When I was a student I attended lectures, even if doing so involved heroic attempts to fight a hangover. I also had to write copious notes, many of which included complicated molecular structures. Talking to lecturers from various universities you hear of students turning up without pens, [...]
In November of 1999 a meningitis C vaccination campaign commenced in order to immunise as many as possible of the country’s 15 million individuals under the age of 18 years. Thirteen million children were immunised in the first year, and approximately 18 million doses of vaccine were distributed in the whole campaign.
The UK’s Meningitis C [...]
Because all medicines have the potential to cause adverse effects, the safety of prescribed medicines is a central concern for health professionals. The initial decision to resort to pharmacological treatment, the choice of drug, and the management and monitoring of the patient require knowledge of drug-induced disease. Additionally, a wider public health duty exists for [...]