Next Wednesday significant parts of the NHS will be taking industrial action. I am supposedly working to rule, with a “ban on non-essential paperwork, e-mail exchanges, attendance at meetings and telephone calls.” The industrial action is being organised by my union Unite, which in a recent ballot obtained a mandate from the membership for this [...]
The Independent recently published an article in which a father explained why his daughters would not be given the HPV vaccine. David Salisbury has written in to correct the article.
I was sad to see the article, “My girls won’t have the cancer jab” (16 November): to use its own words, the article was unnecessary, reckless [...]
Recently the BBC reported on a concern about the use of single vaccines:
UK researchers have raised concerns over the monitoring of the safety of single measles and rubella vaccines.
It comes after an unexpectedly high number of cases of anaphylactic shock after single vaccines given at private clinics in south west England.
Although the figures are likely [...]
Avast me hearties! Shiver me timbers! There is news that rain may be linked to autism:
Research published today suggests that regular rainfall may help trigger autism in children, USA TODAY’s Rita Rubin reports.
“If you look at the autism literature now, they’re much more open to an environmental trigger,” says lead author Michael Waldman, a Cornell [...]
Obama has been elected and has delivered his victory speech. This means that science in the US will hopefully become less politicised. Christopher Hitchens noted a few days ago that the Republican party:
has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who [...]
On Saturday I took the opportunity to nip up Snowdon with my friend Christopher, and got some great shots of the peak covered in snow. Unfortunately the summit was encased in a freezing cloud, but the view as we left down one of the southern ridges was staggeringly beautiful. The ridge was also much more [...]