A good dose of public insight is needed to help the medicine go down – new @acmedsci report! #evidence

It's all over the media today...... Only about one third of the British public say they trust the evidence derived from medical research. Confronted with media hype, claim versus counter-claim, a paucity of good quality accessible information and time-short GPs, and with few reliable tools to help them, patients are struggling to make sense of … Continue reading A good dose of public insight is needed to help the medicine go down – new @acmedsci report! #evidence

Medics lance the cancer care costs boil….Lancet Oncology Commission reports

....I've updated this since last night with a link [here] to the interview that Evan Davis did with Karol Sikora and Peter Johnson (Cancer Research UK) on 'The Today' programme this morning about the Lancet Oncology Commission. It really is worth a listen. It is a long time since I heard 10 mins being given … Continue reading Medics lance the cancer care costs boil….Lancet Oncology Commission reports