Looks like the European Commission has seen sense and postponed its EMF Directive which would have seriously effected the use of MRI for patients across Europe. It’s great that on Medicexchange.com we backed the campaign to stop the Directive implementation..
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PS: Congrats on the site, still in BETA. Love the brick idea where you can design your own message.
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Obesity as bad as climate change
Oh dear, apparently we are going to have to change to prevent obesity, which ranks up with climate change as a big problem.
Ward bug errors cause 90 deaths
Very sad to hear on BBC website about the 90 ward bug deaths.
A coincidence that just a week or so ago I reported on the threat to cleanliness in NHS hospitals: “Had a nice chat with someone very knowledgable about global healthcare and the NHS recently who suggested the NHS was going to ‘hell [...]
Making music on World Mental Health Day
Musically marking World Mental Health Day I played in a band for the very first time, playing the castanet, with the band at Hammersmith & Fulham Consumer Forum.
Innovation in NHS badly needed
Had a nice chat with someone very knowledgable about global healthcare and the NHS recently who suggested the NHS was going to ‘hell in a handbasket’ or whatever the correct phrase is. I guess that kind of opinion is pretty common. So it’s nice to see Government plans to help with a
NHS, and Microsoft collaborate on patient-centred design
“In this edition (click link for video) of House Calls for Healthcare Professionals, Dr. Bill Crounse and his guests discuss this collaborative initiative between the NHS, Microsoft, and the developer community to improve patient safety and end-user satisfaction with a more intuitive, standardized, and universal user interface to clinical applications.”
Other health-related news:
EPSRC call [...]
Old folks get down with podcats, RSS (and Medicare)…
Guess my dry sense of humour just couldn’t resist this medicare skit - “its easy, its simple, and its the right thing to do”.
Is the pharma-freeze on new and social media thawing?
Is the pharma-freeze on new and social media thawing? It’s an interesting question, thanks to ‘eye on fda’.
Latest tinnitus research on Curbside MD
Curbside MD is a really good way of checking what’s happening in terms of clinical research into tinnitus (and other conditions of course):
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