General bewilderment, it turns out, when we’re talking about SARS-CoV-2 variants. More and more potentially worrying variants are being identified, but there’s no agreed way of naming them. A report in Nature this month said that researchers left a world confusion.1 Even terms like “variant,” “lineage,” “strain” don’t have unambiguous definitions. Exactly. “All us becoming …

Not in medicine (and certainly not if Jeremy Hunt had his way). But, while we’re talking seven day working here, the world’s favourite country music star has been putting some overtime recently. No, but she’d probably be number one we …

No, this isn’t about a boom in lockdown hobbies. We’re talking the rise number of people who have been “pinged” and told to self-isolate by NHS Test Trace app. You could say that. Between 1 7 July, 520 194 England received an alert telling them for 10 days. A further 9932 same Wales. Yes, it’s lot. In fact, highest recorded since January. The previous week, 24 30 June, 356 677 …

A Neurosurgical Unit was opened at Purdysburn Hospital in October, 1948, to carry out pre-frontal leucotomy on suitable cases. By the end of June, 1950, 60 cases had been treated of whom 31 were from Purdysburn and 29 from County Mental Hospitals. Wbile it is recognised that the time since operation is much too short to attempt to draw dogmatic conclusions, nevertheless a preliminary report on ...