I am a keen social dancer and take several ballroom and salsa dancing classes a week. I’ve often wondered whether dancing has any physical health benefits. I get the feeling […]
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Toby Pitts-Tucker: The Paralympic legacy and disability hate crime
At the start of London’s Paralympic Games, ITV’s Don’t Hate Us, broadcast on Thursday 23 August, is a stark reminder of the levels of hate crime against the disabled in […]
Vasiliy Vlassov: Psychiatry and political dissent in Russia
On 17 August 2012 the whole of Russian society was taken aback by the harsh court verdict given to three women—the members of the music group “Pussy Riot.” They entered […]
Pritpal S Tamber: The Red Hand Gang of healthcare?
I think I’ve joined a gang. I’m not sure only because it was first billed as a cabal. I’ve since looked up what cabal means and I suspect it’s too […]
John Pring: On the Paralympics, DLAs, and PIPs
These are strange, mixed-up days to be a disabled person. Newspapers are littered as never before with stories of the high achieving disabled athletes set to take part in the […]
Edmund Jessop on the selling off of school playing fields and encouraging young people into sport
Our relationship with physical activity starts at such a young age that it is vital that we all—schools, families, society—play our part to get it right for children and young […]
Nicola While: The new EU law for data protection and its impact on healthcare
The provision of healthcare in the UK is often significantly affected by EU legislation despite member states guarding the right to define national health policy and to organise and deliver […]
Martin Wiseman, Kathryn Allen, and Rachel Thompson: Weighing the evidence on cancer prevention
Scientists gathered at the World Cancer Congress in Montreal, Canada last week to share experience from research and practice, and to consider solutions to reduce the impact of cancer on […]
Penny Campling: Thoughts on a healthcare culture—part 3
Why do good staff become bad? This seems a particularly pertinent question for those of us interested in healthcare in the aftermath of Mid Staffordshire, Winterbourne View, and the repeated […]
Richard Smith: Perhaps I could live forever
I’m sitting in first class on the train to Edinburgh with two glasses of red wine inside me when I look across the water to Lindisfarne and suddenly think “Perhaps […]