Pulse: Half on some GP consortia boards have links to Virgin Group
Wednesday, 8 June 2011, 10:27
"Assura Medical, majority controlled by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, has links with 50% or more of the board members at three of the 52 first-wave GP pathfinders. … Findings by TBIJ, a not-for-profit organisation based at City Universit…
Guardian: Man flu and the difference between mice and men
Saturday, 23 May 2009, 12:52
Ben Goldacre: "what if the media was no longer the public's key source of information on health? The NHS Choices website gets about 6 million unique visitors a month, with no publicity. There you will find Behind the Headlines (around 200,000 visitors), a service I played a tiny role in helping set up: they take the biggest health news stories each day, find the real scientific evidence behind them, and precis it, clearly, for a lay audience. What's amazing is that there is a need for this service."
Saturday, 28 June 2008, 19:25
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NHS Behind the Headlines calls BS on the Star and Express: "This study cannot be taken as evidence that eating chocolate, and specifically Mars bars, will reduce your risk of bowel cancer, or any other type of cancer, or that it is ‘good for you’."
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 18:40
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The new NHS web site has a ‘Behind the headlines’ section which will provide ‘an unbiased and evidence-based analysis of health stories that make the news’. It will link to news stories where available and aims to espond on the day.
