This week’s Lancet is a bit thin on articles of general interest but here is a superb book review by Michael Marmot about Julian Tudor Hart’s The political economy of health care. Worth getting to celebrate the birth in a stable of the main proponent of the idea that all human beings are of equal value.

“Generalised anxiety disorder is characterised by feelings of threat, restlessness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and tension, and by symptoms such as palpitations, dry mouth, and sweating