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UK Scientists Designing Cement To Safely Store Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years - Slashdot

UK Scientists Designing Cement To Safely Store Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years - Slashdot
Source: ibtimes.co.uk

How can we use quality data to make Care Homes safer?: Dr Adam Gordon is Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine of Older

How can we use quality data to make Care Homes safer?: Dr Adam Gordon is Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine of Older People at The University of Nottingham and an Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; he tweets @...
Source: wordpress.com

Hip fracture patients treated at orthogeriatric units received better quality of care and have a lower mortality.: Pia Kjær

Hip fracture patients treated at orthogeriatric units received better quality of care and have a lower mortality.: Pia Kjær Kristensen is a PhD student at Aarhus University Denmark. Her study on orthogeriatric care among hip fracture patients is published in Age and Ageing. She tweets at @pia_kjar ...
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'A destructive vicious circle': what does the future hold for health and social care?: Jill Mortimer is Age UK's Health

'A destructive vicious circle': what does the future hold for health and social care?: Jill Mortimer is Age UK's Health and Care Policy Adviser and tweets at @Age_UK. What’s really happening in health and social care services? Over the last few years, we used in Age UK’s Care in Cris...
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British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam - Slashdot

British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

Can Professor Green teach men to talk about suicide? | Nicola Slawson: The British rapper’s BBC3 documentary explores

Can Professor Green teach men to talk about suicide? | Nicola Slawson: The British rapper’s BBC3 documentary explores his father’s death and discusses how men need to talk about their feelings to reduce the high rate of suicide
Source: theguardian.com

Smart Dressing Glows Green When Wound Becomes Infected |: A team of British scientists has developed a smart wound dressing

Smart Dressing Glows Green When Wound Becomes Infected |: A team of British scientists has developed a smart wound dressing that can detect the presence of bacterial infection. The ability to clean wounds of infec
Source: medgadget.com

Jeremy Hunt accused of skewing weekend hospital death rates: British Medical Journal editor says health secretary’s frequent

Jeremy Hunt accused of skewing weekend hospital death rates: British Medical Journal editor says health secretary’s frequent references to ‘excess’ deaths are misleading
Source: theguardian.com

Jeremy Hunt 'misrepresented weekend deaths data' - BBC News: The health secretary has misrepresented a key study used to

Jeremy Hunt 'misrepresented weekend deaths data' - BBC News: The health secretary has misrepresented a key study used to back the case for more seven-day NHS care, the editor of the British Medical Journal says.
Source: bbc.co.uk

NHS workers from abroad: 'I don't think people here appreciate what they have': One in four doctors in the UK is now non-British,

NHS workers from abroad: 'I don't think people here appreciate what they have': One in four doctors in the UK is now non-British, and there are thousands more foreign-trained nurses. Do they feel welcome? And how does healthcare in Ghana or the Philippines compare?
Source: theguardian.com

National awards success for Plymouth dental researchers: Dental researchers from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of

National awards success for Plymouth dental researchers: Dental researchers from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry have come away with a raft of awards following this year's general meeting of the British Society of Oral and Dental Research.
Source: eurekalert.org

Science leaders make investment case - BBC News: Leading figures in the scientific community argue for a lift in public

Science leaders make investment case - BBC News: Leading figures in the scientific community argue for a lift in public research spending to boost the British economy.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Everyone should read what this man has to say about the refugee crisis: The British government has announced it will take

Everyone should read what this man has to say about the refugee crisis: The British government has announced it will take in 20,000 refugees from camps in Syria and its neighbouring states.
Source: independent.co.uk