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> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over something they said or who they associated with? Unthinkable. Actually, yes, in most parts of the world the telephone company was under no obligatio
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Mental health apps are common, but not widely used. Many of the apps available don't use evidence based approaches. This article looks at the features that are present in apps that are actually used.
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What content is found in the mental health apps that people are using?
(nationalelfservice.net)
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I'm saying you're being brittle, sensitive, and easily triggered, and that maybe you need to stop supporting white supremacists. Also, you should probably read up on Kristallnacht before clumsily using it in metaphors. Maybe start
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The end of Flash: what legacy will it leave behind?
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If you have unreacted lye in your soap you're going to have more problems than just stripping the seasoning off your pan.
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It's not possible to fix information on Wikipedia by using primary sources (the Judiciary website, the ONS data, the NCISH reports), you have to use secondary sources such as newspaper reports. Since newspapers get this stuff wrong too
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Yes. Here's a twitter thread of him being odd. https://twitter.com/Emcharlotte10/status/1341334691035623425
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> I would think the UK Health Secretary Minor nit, but he's not UK health secretary. Health is devolved so he only has responsibility for England.
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Hancock is a lack-talent idiot. It takes real skill to be a worse secretary of health than both Hunt and Lansley, but he's somehow managed it. He'll say whatever he thinks is popular at the time. Here he is calling for tighter reg
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If you want to understand suicide in the UK you need to know, at a minimum, about ONS, NCISH, Fingertips, and then coroners for England and Wales and whatever the equivalent is for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Here's a list of links:
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Open means the bed and staff are present, but not necessarily available because it might have a patient in it. This is compared to beds that are not available because eg the hospital is in critcon4.
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B117 new variant covid is significantly worrying because it's more transmissible than regular covid, and about the same lethality. People have got comfortable with measures to tackle regular covid, and those are not enough to tackle B1
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The spread of B.1.1.7 through England over November and December
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But every year we have excess mortality caused by cuts to service. That's literally people dying because of poor funding choices. What do you expect to see? Ambos on fire?
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Here's a useful thread that comprehensively debunks this point: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1347200811303055364 Winter pressure this year, no matter how you count it, is considerably worse than it
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Misrepresenting Race – The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician Bias
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Some systems used phased ringi g so only the correct phone would ring, but I'm having trouble finding details. That last party line in the US was taken out in 1991! https://www.numberbarn.com/blog/phone-history-pa
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Comparing England's Covid ICU admissions to previous flu seasons
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> politically convenient fake facts (“masks don’t work”) As I keep asking you, every time you post this, please can you point to the published studies showing that masks work. These studies should have been published before the WHO /
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> determine which areas are more likely to access HIV information on the NHS website We can already do this. Have a look at the Public Health England "Fingertips" website. https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/ http
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Your article mentions the cancer drugs fund. In the US companies will happily exploit dying people to extract as much money from them, and their families, as possible. In the UK we recognise that dying people are vulnerable to this form of
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> decimates the market for advanced private care of the level you have in the US. > Still it's not unheard for patients that can afford it to go to the USA for specific treatments. They're often getting very expensive, but n
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I'd like to share an audio recording of an Usborne book online
(faqs.usborne.com)
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But also, hammers for framing or demolition already exist and are very good. Martinez M1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8AOrkfR1WM A bunch of different hammers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DabECxs3WhU
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The title sucks. I guess I could have used the sub-title instead: "A history of COVID commentators in relation to the pandemic in the UK." There's a prolific amount of anti-Covid discussion in the UK at the moment, and a lot
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Wrong COVIDline
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The media bias against antidepressants is harming patients
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How can you take your teaching online? (Free Resources)
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> On the other hand the counter-theory ("there was illegal bat trafficking from a small mine in Yunnan") One theory is that people mine bat guano from caves, so there's no need for them to ever touch a dead bat.
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