Heaney's classic meditation on Francis' sermon to the birds...

A RARE chance has emerged for someone to buy one of Shetland’s uninhabited islands. The island of Hildasay, located off Scalloway, is being sold for offers...

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The co-lead of the world’s largest ever genetic study into ME calls for a radical change in how society deals with the disease.

A Gaping Lack of Evidence for Health Benefits

Back in 2000, when I was Chairperson of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, I chaired the development of a joint National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Forum national statement on consumer and community participation in research. This month I saw that it has recently been revised—the second revision since "our" version was published in 2002. Over 1,100 people attended consultation workshops for this process, and there were more than 200 written submissions.

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The Information Commissioner's Office decided last month that the Department of Health and Social Care can continue to withhold the government’s impact assessment of the UK-US pharmaceuticals trade de...

The Sick Until Proven Healthy Trap

by Professor Chris Ponting A guide to the Biopsychosocial model recently put out by Long Covid Advocacy ultimately brought me to a 2005 book chapter, written by Professor George Davey Smith, entitl…

Order also recommends all shots be given at separate medical visits though cost of doing them together is lower

A framework for thinking about prevention across layers and across time phases

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Part Two: Why good prevention still loses momentum

Before I get to the bumper crop of recent clinical trial news, there is news about this monthly update. This is the…

Experimenting with colors for the Absolutely Maybe logo feels like another lifetime. It was 2013, and this blog was launching on the…

It's wattle time here in country Victoria, and the bees are ecstatic! All that glorious yellow cheers up the middle of winter no end. It's such an optimistic color. I'm feeling optimistic, too, even though this month did not go as planned. That began, as disruptions so often do, with an unexpected email. This one was from PLOS, the home of my blog, …

White will produce original work in Shaetlan language during year-long residency

One in seven of us will face care costs above £100,000, decided by luck rather than need. We explain how England’s social care charging system really works.

Part One: Why prevention fails before it even reaches delivery

JCVI noted in their cost-benefit analysis that willingness to pay privately increases with age

Several studies suggest GLP-1 drugs may lower cancer risk. But that benefit may be due to the patients themselves: those who are healthier, wealthier and with better access to care.

Sally Gainsbury and York University’s James Lomas argue that the terms of the recent US-UK medicines agreement will clearly reduce the cost effectiveness of the NHS’s finite resources. The blog was or...

Long COVID is a post-acute infection syndrome characterised by the persistence of symptoms following a COVID-19 illness. This novel and complex condition has a debilitating and often disabling impact ...