Advances in genetics are mostly wonderful (and completely amazing) but each discovery chips away at privacy. In September a paper showed that sequencing a person’s
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How to build a national emergency phone service
This year is the 80th anniversary of the world’s first national emergency phone service, the UK’s 999. In the week of the 30th of June
Just in time is better than just in case care
A more beautiful question: The power of inquiry to spark breakthrough ideas is a great new book about the importance and power of questions. It
How and what to ask your doctor
Researchers at The Right Question Institute are on a mission to help us ask the right questions. They started in education when they found out
Health care transaction costs: lessons from India’s biometrics program
Over 1 billion Indians’ fingerprints are held in their government’s Aadhaar system. The biometric system quickly and cheaply verifies a citizen’s identity for government services
Using PKB, Leicester Medical School becomes first in the UK teaching electronic consultations
1953 was a historic year: Elizabeth was crowned Queen; Hillary and Tenzing were first to climb mount Everest; Stalin died; and Watson and Crick published
