Two swine flu call centres in England will close on Sunday with the loss of 1200 jobs reports The Guardian. Demand for Tamiflu has plummeted: it peaked on 27 July […]
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Joe Collier: How spells and trances aid learning
Over the years I have sat through plenty of lectures that have been plain awful. There have also been those which simply glued me to my seat, where time flew […]
Helen Macdonald on swabs, tips, and a flu game
Is there anything new about swine flu? The Department of Health update revealed an interesting finding this week. The Guardian reports; “One of the odder aspects of the latest data […]
Tom Nolan on historic flu remedies
Last week we learnt who will be offered the vaccine against swine flu first. Priority groups include people in high risk groups age between 6 months and 65 years, pregnant […]
Syed Shah on being the first case of influenza A/H1N1 in the United Arab Emirates
I had the honor of being the first case reported officially from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It was 3 am on Sunday, 17th May when I arrived at Dubai […]
Stephen Ginn on “sexting”
There was a new moral panic last week. Teenagers are “sexting” each other and, using magic new distribution channels, sometimes these images are distributed way beyond their original recipients. There’s concern […]
Helen Macdonald on figures, jabs, scaling back, and sewage
The number of swine flu cases fell across the UK again, according to the weekly figures from the Health Protection Agency, although they caution their interpretation. Sir Liam Donaldson, England’s […]
Tom Nolan: Is Tamiflu useful in children or not?
Why did the operator at the National Pandemic Flu Service give the child Tamiflu? The cynics will say because the algorithm told him to, but the real answer, according to […]
Joe Collier on tackling breaches in the personal professional divide
How best to set the ways we communicate with each other, and so to establish our “rules of engagement”, can be difficult’. Moreover, any “rules” we establish may vary over […]
Helen Macdonald on the calm, waves of flu, vaccines, and other stories
Calm settled over swine flu coverage this week as the northern hemisphere headed into the summer holidays; but much remains uncertain. Stories tracking the Health Protection Agency’s weekly flu figures […]