November 2009 coverage
GPs stop ADHD drugs 'too early' GPs are being forced to take young patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) off their medication too early because of a lack of specialist psychiatric support, researchers have warned.
24 November 2009 - Pulse
Underwhelming evidence for a heart screening programme
17 November 2009 - Financial Times
The campaign aims to increase people’s awareness of asymptomatic AF and encourages them to check their pulse for an irregular rhythm…The campaign will be starting on 16th November 2009 and will run across the following weeks.
Richard Smith on assessing health technology assessment
11 November 2009 - BMJ
The budget of Britain’s Health Technology Assessment programme has grown from £13m in 2006 to £88m in 2010, and it has conducted a swathe of trials on new technologies, published dozens of papers, and supported a study that won the BMJ paper of the year.
10 November 2009 - Babycentre
Every human being has 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs. Each man's sperm has 23 chromosomes and so does each woman's egg, so that when conception occurs and the sperm fertilises the egg, a new human being with a full complement of chromosomes is formed. Sometimes mistakes occur and lead to what are described as chromosomal abnormalities. Down's syndrome is one of these.
Lords Committee takes evidence on research funding priorities
5 November 2009 - parliament.uk
The Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry on setting science research funding priorities.
5 November 2009 - Times Higher Education
The NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme produces independent research on the effectiveness, costs and impact of healthcare treatments.
3 November 2009 - National electronic library for medicines
According to the results of a trial conducted in primary care in the UK, topical intranasal corticosteroids are unlikely to be an effective treatment for glue ear in this setting.
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