Natural environment: UK council counts pennies

New UK council to curb psychiatry.

Kids swallowing pennies.

Kids Swallowing Pennies Doctors at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, have learned that a penny saved isn't always a good thing, particularly if that penny was minted after 1982. A team of doctors found that children who swallow post-1982 pennies may develop stomach ulcers if the coins become lodged in their digestive tracts. More than 21,000 children visited the emergenc...

Quantum Matching Pennies Game

A quantum version of the Matching Pennies (MP) game is proposed that is set in an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm (EPR-Bohm) setting. We construct the quantum game without using the state vectors and while considering only the quantum mechanical joint probabilities relevant to the EPR-Bohm setting. We embed the classical game within the quantum game such that the classical MP game results when the...

The UK Medical Research Council and clinical trials, 1934-1960

1940-1949: Randomised controlled trial design pioneered MRC scientists developed what is today the gold standard for clinical trial design while testing streptomycin to treat pulmonary tuberculosis. Although the MRC failed to make any substantive contribution to the development of trial methods before the 1940s, it made exceptionally important contributions between 1944 and 1960. Surprisingly, ...

Role of the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council.