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	<title>Health &amp; Science blog</title>
	
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		<title>Message about the FT health and science blog</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/20/message-about-the-ft-health-and-science-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog will be closing at the end of this week but will remain accessible as an archive. Margaret McCartney will continue blogging from: http://www.margaretmccartney.com/blog/ You will also now be able to add comments to her weekly columns at: http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/margaretmccartney You can also follow the FT&#8217;s science coverage at: http://www.ft.com/businesslife/science Thank you for reading and contributing to the &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/20/message-about-the-ft-health-and-science-blog/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Message about the FT health and science blog"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>BCA drops Simon Singh case</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/15/bca-drops-simon-singh-case/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/15/bca-drops-simon-singh-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret McCartney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/?p=6846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hurrah &#8211; sense sees through the day. The British Chiropractic Association have evidently decided enough is enough from their statement BCA vs Simon Singh and have dropped their case against him.]]></description>
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		<title>Patients on the internet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/15/patients-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret McCartney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/?p=6826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I do love the internet: at home and also at work, where I can find things faster, often, than searching through a textbook (filing not being my strong point.) The pros and cons of using the internet for diagnosis have been noted and an interesting recent perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine  &#8211; &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/15/patients-on-the-internet/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Patients on the internet"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu lessons</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/13/swine-flu-lessons/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/13/swine-flu-lessons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret McCartney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/?p=6806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to see the WHO acknowledging that there was not enough admission of the &#8220;uncertainties&#8221; about swine flu.WHO admits shortcomings in handling flu pandemic If we learn one thing from the experience, surely it should be that we should absolutely accept the unknowns and then start to reduce them &#8211; with well-designed, clinical trials.]]></description>
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		<title>Reprieve for Royal Institution’s board</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/13/reprieve-for-royal-institutions-board/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/13/reprieve-for-royal-institutions-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Cookson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/?p=6781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the end it wasn&#8217;t even close. At a special general meeting last night, members of the Royal Institution voted 512 to 121 against a move to oust the board and bring in a new group of trustees. The sad saga of the RI has fascinated scientific London since December when its charismatic director, Susan &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/13/reprieve-for-royal-institutions-board/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Reprieve for Royal Institution&#8217;s board"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The stork knows best</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/10/the-stork-knows-best/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/10/the-stork-knows-best/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret McCartney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Screening]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/?p=6751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most couples are aware of the potential hazards of putting off “trying for a baby” – and rightly so. As less than 2.2 per cent of women over 43 who undergo IVF are successful, it’s not as if there is an easy solution on hand for couples who fail to conceive naturally. But now a &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/10/the-stork-knows-best/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"The stork knows best"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Chlamydia screening: messier and murkier</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/09/chlamydia-screening-messier-and-murkier/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/09/chlamydia-screening-messier-and-murkier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret McCartney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Screening]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/?p=6716</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of decades, chlamydia screening has been discussed, started, changed, discussed, evaluated, disagreed with, and discussed again. One thing I think has been missing is large scale Randomised Controlled Trials performed early on, and used to make cost-effective decisions. Instead decisions have been made on trials that have now been decided as flawed, and &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/09/chlamydia-screening-messier-and-murkier/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Chlamydia screening: messier and murkier"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t be fooled by the towel-folding robot video</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/09/dont-be-fooled-by-the-towel-folding-robot-video/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/09/dont-be-fooled-by-the-towel-folding-robot-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Cookson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/?p=6671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robots in motion are a mesmerising sight, even if they are doing a chore that would be very boring if carried out by a human. So it&#8217;s not surprising that one of the week&#8217;s most viewed videos on YouTube shows a Californian robot picking up towels from a pile of laundry and neatly folding them. &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/09/dont-be-fooled-by-the-towel-folding-robot-video/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Don&#8217;t be fooled by the towel-folding robot video"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Throw out your broccoli, chuck out your tomatoes…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/08/throw-out-your-broccoli-chuck-out-your-tomatoes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/08/throw-out-your-broccoli-chuck-out-your-tomatoes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret McCartney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/?p=6646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shall we? The vegetable tide is turning. For those of us forcing vegetables into our children in the belief that they are essential to health, the news, from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute: Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition reporting a very large &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/08/throw-out-your-broccoli-chuck-out-your-tomatoes/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Throw out your broccoli, chuck out your tomatoes&#8230;"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>If you want to know more about screening….</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/06/if-you-want-to-know-more-about-screening/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/06/if-you-want-to-know-more-about-screening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret McCartney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[this set of modules is rather good: and Angela Raffle, the public health consultant narrating, has a lovely voice. Quite impressive that it was sponsored by the NHS &#8211; if only the same common sense would filter into the actual screening programmes. And here&#8217;s another thing of interest to people who are sceptical about screening &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/04/06/if-you-want-to-know-more-about-screening/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"If you want to know more about screening&#8230;."</span></a></div>]]></description>
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