Remind me again: why are we here?

Remind me again: why are we here?

Here we go again: repeating implementation errors.

The current reforms of the English NHS are being carefully watched in Eastern and Western Europe, parts of Latin America and Asia, and in former Commonwealth nations, because they aim to develop the concept of a “primary care led health service” more fully than has ever been realised before. Building on the transformation of the NHS from an administered to a commissioned service, the Labour ref...

Happy days here again?

theory simply because no test tubes are involved: most computational biology, including most of the things my group does, is really computational experiment. Genuine theory, where theoretical models are built and pitted against observations, is on the rise too, but I do not think it will ever be as important in biology as it is in physics. This is because many crucial aspects of biological syst...

Shale is here again.

What do we know about ageing at work? Evidence-based fitness for duty and health in fire fighters. The current enthusiasm for fracking takes me back to the oil crisis of the late 1970s. I had been asked to see a post-thoracotomy patient and, when he recovered, found that his lesion had been pneumoconiotic. When I enquired which mine he worked in, he told me that it had been a shale mine and sin...

Why Are We Right Handed

ness for according to himself uncivilized man tends to the same practice. The wild aborigines in the Andaman Islands use their right hands for the actual discharge of the arrow from the bow. It is the same with semi-civilized races on the N. W. Frontier, in Somaliland, and elsewhere that I have observed. Let Ur. Jaensch more carefully observe an infant and he will see its pronounced tendency to...