Stories
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
How to cure the eco-anxious
Could community activism be the key to overcoming a fear of environmental collapse?
- Article
Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Books
Medical research : what's it worth? : estimating the economic benefits from medical research in the UK / Health Economics Research Group (HERG), Office of Health Economics, RAND Europe.
Date: [2008]- Books
What are my chances doctor? : a review of clinical risks / Bernie O'Brien, Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University.
O'Brien, Bernie.Date: 1986- Books
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Medical Research: What’s it worth? : estimating the economic benefits from medical research in the UK / Health Economics Research Group (HERG) Brunel University, Office of Health Economics (OHE), RAND Europe, for the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Date: 2008- Books
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Medical Research, what’s it worth? : estimating the economic benefits from medical research in the UK : briefing November 2008 / Health Economics Research Group (HERG) Brunel University, Office of Health Economics (OHE), RAND Europe, for the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Date: 2008- Books
From bedside to bench : Comroe and Dripps revisited / Jonathan Grant, Liz Green, Barbara Mason.
Grant, Jonathan (Health policy researcher)Date: 2003