Too busy waiting for the arrival of the royal baby to follow Twitter? Here is our roundup of the health-related tweets you might have missed last week.
- Our @Billmorgan82 took part in #ourfuturehealth
- Want to know more about genetic technologies? This interactive infographic and quiz from the Royal Society is for you
- Looking to understand how patient data is used in the NHS? Check out this blog by the @RuthRobbo from @TheKingsFund
- An interesting read on transparency in policymaking that puts the Department of Health and Social Care as one of the best and most consistently high scoring departments
- Agreement across parties on the pledge to support alcoholic parents and their children
- Over the last 70 years life expectancy has drastically increased...but here is an interesting article on seven tension points to address if policymakers at the WHO and beyond want to continue this trend
- World Meningitis Day gave us an opportunity to learn more about how meningitis can be caused and its different forms
- 100 years after some women were given the right to vote, the #MillicentFawcett statue was revealed in Parliament Square last week – find out how it was made
- Planning a mountain hike anytime soon – read @theBHF’s recent blog to find out what happens to your heart at high altitudes and how we can learn from this to fight hypertension
- Ever wonder what you look like when you talk? Here is an inside view
Over the pond...
- Turns out a typical American birth costs as much as delivering a royal baby
- Across all US states health disparities have increased with time, with the top risk factors for attributable disability-adjusted life-years being tobacco consumption (32 states), high BMI (10 states), or alcohol and drug use (8 states)
And finally...
- Difficult decisions when home improvement clashes with a call from Downing Street