Tag Archives: public health
What the Quora?
Posted on 06. Jan, 2011 by NW1er.
I’d subconsciously registered the noise about Quora, a social media platform that has bubbled up into the social media mainstream and aims to be a “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organised by everyone who uses it”, at the start of the year but wasn’t spurred into investigative action until [...]
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Where there is smoke there is desire
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by neilcrump.
I want to share my insights on the crazy world of smoking and the business of getting people to stop, officially known as smoking cessation. I am well placed to write this post because not only did I work on a prescription smoking cessation medicine and its European launch for two years, I also supported [...]
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Boozy Britain – the debate continues…
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Handbaglady.
In keeping with our national obsession with booze….most of the papers, including The Times, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror reported today on NICE launching new guidance on preventing harmful binge drinking. NICE said alcohol must become less affordable and harder to obtain. The guidance does not recommend a minimum price but assessed [...]
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Slip, slap, slop this summer
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Claire.
The jokey image of the Englishman in summer, with a handkerchief on his head and painful looking sunburn is obviously an all too common reality. Today’s news that skin cancer is killing more men than women comes as no surprise. Not only are men not used to slathering themselves in creams like women, but they [...]
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Government’s latest anti-drugs driving advert hits our screens
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Handbaglady.
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Flu on your doorstep
Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by neilcrump.
Unless you have been off the planet for the last few months you cannot have failed to notice that swine flu has reached pandemic status and has well and truly arrived on our doorstep. NHS Choices estimates that last week there were 55,000 new cases of swine flu here in the UK and sadly 29 [...]
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Swine flu cyberpandemic
Posted on 01. May, 2009 by phaedrus.
As broadcast and print news report the steady movement of swine flu around the globe, the outbreak of online coverage, mainly in the form of blogging, is spreading at an even faster rate. I can understand why this news story is one that the online community has taken up in this way. It is an [...]
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Scare tactics or softly, softly?
Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by Claire.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible – Voltaire The news last week that teen pregnancies in the UK are at the lowest rate in 20 years, but are still the highest in Europe, was somewhat overshadowed by the uncannily timed birth of baby Maisie to parents Alfie, 13 and Chantelle, 15, which stole [...]
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Unintended consequences
Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by NW1er.
To celebrate Darwin’s 200th birthday, Professor Sir David King, formerly the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, and Professor Richard Dawkins, all round advocate of science, delivered a riveting presentation on, “Can British science rise to the new challenges of the 21st Century?” I was fortunate enough to get tickets for this event so took a trip [...]
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Rats in your popcorn
Posted on 13. Feb, 2009 by neilcrump.
With £10 million of counterfeit drugs being purchased each year in the UK (and the figures predicted to rise significantly) the ‘fake medicine, real danger’ campaign was initiated by Pfizer to tackle this dangerous problem. The cinema ad, that is certificate 15, is really hard hitting (a rodent being pulled out of a chap’s mouth [...]
