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Evidence-based health answers you can trust. - Chris Kresser

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Learn how you can reinvent healthcare using Functional Medicine, health coaching, and ancestral nutrition, with Chris Kresser.

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Banish Blogs have a lot of skincare advice and you can also purchase some of their products.

Although I believe it's an American website

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An insight into links between autism and vaccines (i.e. not)

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An insight into links between autism and vaccines (i.e. not)

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http://howdovaccinescauseautism.com/

Avoid if offended by curse words!

Steve Silberman's book on autism has a very good chapter on the furore over MMR jabs, and how poor reporting and consideration of other factors fed into the antivax movement

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Some useful ideas.

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Liking gin & tonic doesn't make you a psychopath

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Liking gin & tonic doesn't make you a psychopath

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This reassuring and sensible piece turned up in the Guardian today:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/13/no-enjoying-a-gin-and-tonic-does-not-make-you-a-psychopath

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the health report. web page plus radio show plus podcasts of the show.

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Fun, approachable introductions to medical statistics: Medical Statistics Made Easy by Michael Harris and Gordon Taylor; How to Read a Paper by Trisha Greenhalgh; TED talk Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box

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International Agency for Research on Cancer - International Classification of Tumours series, Monographs on carcinogens, Cancer Today visual presentation of cancer incidence, prevalence and mortality

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https://www.nutrition.org.

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Spine-Health publishes original articles written for patients by over 100 physician authors and peer-reviewed by an 17 member Medical Advisory Board. This trusted, independent site is supported by hundreds of physician members and visited by over 7 million patients and physicians each month.

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 Testing Treatments interactive Promoting critical thinking

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 Testing Treatments interactive Promoting critical thinking

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http://www.asm.org/

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http://www.hantshealthcarelibrary.nhs.uk/
What it says on the tin!

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http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/
Peer-reviewed articles on EVERY NIHR-funded trial.

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Italian Study Center for Health Care and Sociology

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Italian Study Center for Health Care and Sociology

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http://www.gruppoabele.org/cosa-facciamo/formazione-e-ricerca/centro-studi/biblioteca/

very useful with articles, books, dvds about social and health care themes. The only little problem is that usually only abstracts are available online, so you should go personally to visit the library.

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http://www.healthline.com/health/migraine-drugs#Overview1

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Dr Mark Porter, Times Tuesdays.
This week's is on NSAIDs

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Scotland Health Information Service

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NHS inform - Scottish health information you can trust

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NHS inform is Scotland's national health information service helping the people in Scotland to make informed decisions about their own health and the health of the people they care for

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Measles and whooping cough, two infectious diseases US public health officials had gotten pretty good at preventing, have made a disturbing comeback in recent years.

Why? Many believe the recent outbreaks were closely tied to people who refuse vaccinations for all kinds of reasons.

And a new paper in confirms they're right.

The study, led by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, reviewed 18 studies that traced the immunization histories of the 1,416 people (ages 2 weeks to 84 years) who were diagnosed with measles in the United States since 2000. Of those, 970 patients had detailed vaccine histories.

When the researchers looked closely at those histories, they found that 574 people were unvaccinated despite being vaccine eligible, and 405 cases had religious or philosophical reasons for refusing vaccines. In other words, about 29 percent of the total cases (or 42 percent of those for whom researchers had vaccine histories) had no medical reason to abstain from getting their shots.

Children with vaccine exemptions are at much greater risk of being infected with measles than fully vaccinated children. In one study the researchers looked at, the risk was 35 times that of the vaccinated population. Of the total measles cases, 178 were younger than 12 months - babies too young to get shots.

The cumulative epidemic curve of all the measles outbreaks since 2000 (when the disease was declared "eliminated" in the US) revealed that unvaccinated individuals were often "patient zeroes," meaning they sparked outbreaks by creating pockets of disease susceptibility that caused others to fall ill. Over that period, the US went from having no local spread of measles to 189 cases in 2015.

This is precisely why having more unvaccinated people threatens what's called "herd immunity." In order for any vaccine to be effective, you need to have a certain (high) percentage of people in a population immunized. Herd immunity keeps diseases from spreading through populations very easily, and keeps vulnerable groups who can't be vaccinated (such as very young babies or people with allergies to vaccines) protected.

In addition to their analysis of measles cases, researchers also looked at 32 reports on pertussis (whooping cough) outbreaks since 1977. Here, they found that a big part of what caused disease clusters to spring up was the waning efficacy of the vaccine. But vaccine refusers also helped spread whooping cough further. "The most preventable reason for outbreaks is vaccine refusal," said study author Saad Omer, an epidemiologist at the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta who's been studying vaccine issues for more than a decade.

How policy can make it harder for parents to opt out of vaccines for their kids

Following a massive measles outbreak in Disneyland, the state of California enacted a law last year that made it a lot harder for people to opt out of vaccines. Public health officials saw the vaccine mandate as a win. Some parents viewed the law as draconian, putting decisions about their children's health into the hands of government.

Since the newest study adds to the pile of evidence that suggests people who refuse vaccines help cause outbreaks, Omer said, California's new vaccine law is a smart move. "There is some value in changing the balance" so that it's at least as time-consuming to choose not to have your children vaccinated as it is to have them vaccinated. He proposes that people who chose to opt out of shots for nonmedical reasons should have to go to their doctor for counseling on that decision and its implications.

In Omer's earlier research, he's found that rates of whooping cough are higher in places that have laxer exemption policies, like Arkansas and Texas. He's also found that parents will use medical exemptions more commonly in states that make them easily accessible or that bar philosophical vaccine exemptions.

Only three states - California, Mississippi, and West Virginia - have a policy of no exemptions in place. All the others allow people to opt out for some mix of personal, philosophical, or religious reasons. But every state - even California, Mississippi, and West Virginia - allows medical exemptions.

Overall, the number of people who refuse vaccines in the US is actually small, usually only about 1 or 2 percent of the total population. But with diseases like measles making a comeback, there are concerns that the number of refusers is growing. New studies like this one demonstrate why that puts everyone at risk.

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Study: vaccine refusers helped spark recent measles and whooping cough outbreaks

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Measles and whooping cough, two infectious diseases US public health officials had gotten pretty good at preventing, have made a disturbing comeback in recent years. Why? Many believe the recent outbreaks were closely tied to people who refuse vaccinations for all kinds of reasons. And a new paper in confirms they're right.

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very informative and interesting, I will use these skills in finding evidence   

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very informative and interesting, I will use these skills in finding evidence   

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Interesting report from Vox:
Study: vaccine refusers helped spark recent measles and whooping cough outbreaks
'...unvaccinated individuals were often "patient zeroes," meaning they sparked outbreaks by creating pockets of disease susceptibility that caused others to fall ill.'
The piece reports on research published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn (JAMA)

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Funny look at how numbers can line up and give misleading ideas about causation!

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Quick note: I am updating this project to make it more engaging and more useful in classrooms. If you are a teacher or a student using this in class, I'd appreciate it if you would shoot me a quick note describing how you use it and what might make it more helpful: vigentyler@gmail.com. You can also email me if you're willing to test out the new features to provide feedback before they are released, or if you just want me to let you know when it is done.

The update will be released in 2024. Thanks! -Tyler

Other spurious things

Something totally different: The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge - a long-form over-the-top article about the history of one specific bridge in Minnesota. Published August 28, 2023.

Discover a correlation: find new correlations. Note from Tyler: This is not working, but I am in the process of fixing it. Shoot me an email if you'd like an update when I fix it.

View the sources of every statistic in the book.

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Quick note: I am updating this project to make it more engaging and more useful in classrooms. If you are a teacher or a student using this in class, I'd appreciate it if you would shoot me a quick note describing how you use it and what might make it more helpful: vigentyler@gmail.com.

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A useful and academically rigorous source of health information in an easily digestible format

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Health – Views & Research – The Conversation

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Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.