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My new book – Broadmoor Women: Tales from Britain’s First Criminal Lunatic Asylum

Broadmoor, Britain’s first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in…

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Posted in: Education, Health, Public sector, Social Care Filed under: asylum, book, britain, broadmoor, criminals, lunatic, mental illness, uk, women crime insanity
Syringe and drugs

The New Normal

After Covid, is the future of drug and alcohol services digital? A switch to phone and online offerings might not…

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Posted in: Health

Why the south Wales town that forged the NHS now points to its future

Tredegar, the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, offers a microcosm of the health and social care problems facing the nation Growing…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: Aneurin Bevan, NHS, Tredegar

The idea that positive thinking has a big effect on labour is unscientific

Yesterday The Telegraph published an article by Milli Hill headlined: “The myth of the painful birth – and why it’s not nearly so bad as…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: birth, child birth, childbirth, mothers, pain, pregnancy

How will artificial intelligence change radiology?

Artificial intelligence and cognitive computing is being heralded as the brave new frontier of clinical IT, Kim Thomas reports on…

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Posted in: Health, Technology Filed under: artificial intelligence, radiology, Watson

Special report: Picture archiving and communications systems

The refresh of picture archiving and communications systems triggered by the end of national contracts is almost at an end.…

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Posted in: Business, Health Filed under: Carestream, DICOM, Exchange Portal, GE Centricity, HL7, PACS, primary care, radiology, Sectra, trusts

Developing a new way of doing healthcare

Apps developed in the UK are transforming healthcare in developing countries; and sometimes their ideas are coming back the other…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: apps, aptus, babylon, diagnosis, healthcare, Lionsgate, mobile, Mozambique, NHS111, openMRS, your.MD

Cancer, Alzheimer treatments on the verge of a breakthrough

Greater understanding of genetics and characteristics of diseases are driving the development of new medicines The practice of medicine can…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: alzheimers, astrazenca, Biology, breakthrough, cancer, dna, epigenics, Genetics, health, immunotherapy, new treatment, nucala, olaparib, pfizer, research, Science, Society

Too many women leave hospital after childbirth with PTSD due to bad care

Gill heard a midwife say, ‘Is she always this much of a drama queen?’ to her husband during a painful…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: birth, child birth, cumberlege, health, mothers, pregnancy, PTSD, report, suicide, trauma, writer

‘Their body, their data’: how portals can put patients in charge

Portals let patients see their own medical information through a secure website. But why have they been so slow to…

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Posted in: Health, Public sector Filed under: Brother, data, health, information, medical, portals, websites

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