In today's FT... Only 10 per cent...Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities could not provide “any compelling examples of what had been delivered so far”.

Is CRP a biological effector? Where are the receptors? Brunner et Al PloS MED2008

Richly deserved.

Online option for this interesting session is invisible!

Natasha is absolutely correct about social care. The principles of fairness and social justice in the policy are what are needed sooner not later. The Fabian policy plan for a national care service has widespread support.

Can we not continually kick this can down the road. Fabians have a good solution already.

Was really enjoying the #SSM2024 conference in Glasgow. I presented our recent work about dementia incidence forecast. Thanks a lot to Eric Brunner @EricFrench @JeromeSimons for the joint work.

Body Roundness Index and All-Cause Mortality Among US Adults. Somehow I think BRI will not catch on Formula is 364.2 − 365.5 × √(1 − [waist circumference in centimeters / 2π]2 / [0.5 × height in centimeters]2) jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Fascinating interview by Clare Llewellyn on BBC Radio 4 Today on kids’ eating habits & role of genes. Lots of tips for social workers on assessment of parenting capacity in this area. Helpful for BASW members!

⚠️ People facing food insecurity are more than twice as likely to be living with a mental health condition. Our latest report finds families across the UK are stuck in a cycle of poverty, food insecurity and poor mental health - with children particularly affected. Read more:

Andrew Sommerlad talking in Fondazione Prada conference about social participation and risk of dementia, cause and effect. He talks about being bidirectional. UCL Psychiatry

Simon Y. Chen fabulous poster on air pollution and dementia Fondazione Prada UCL Psychiatry

Daily Mail 'discovers' asbestos in schools now Labour in government. APPG on Occupational Health & Safety published their report on this major problem in 2012. It was discussed in Select Committee in 2013. Mesothlioma deaths that follow are due to austerity and callous politics.

Great news that social epidemiology will continue to document the life course linkages between inequalities and health

More than 10 years on from Dilnott, England still lacks equity in social care.

The French Academy of Sciences awarded the Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy Prize to Séverine Sabia, Inserm research director of the Epi of Ageing team from CRESS_UMR1153, on November 26, 2024, at the Coupole of the Institut de France in Paris. cress-umr1153.fr/fr/severine-sa…

Exciting news! Whitehall Study metadata is now searchable on the CLOSER Discovery tool, enhancing access to longitudinal population study datasets. closer.ac.uk/study/whitehal…

Oppenheimer lied to you. He wasn't the hero who saved the Manhattan Project. When his reactor was failing, he needed a Chinese woman to prevent nuclear disaster––that he later erased from history. Here's the true story of physics' greatest cover-up:

Was milk-calcium-low colon cancer a prior hypothesis ? I bet *no*.

Excellent job opportunity for postdoc epidemiologist on Whitehall II study!