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Protecting the nation
Making sure that vaccination works
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Influenza virus: it's all in the packaging!
We have all become more aware of the dangers of influenza this year, but why is it so dangerous? Julia Gog explains that the unusual structure of the influenza genome can lead to dangerous evolutionary jumps, and how mathematics is helping to understand how the virus replicates.
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Build your own disease
An activity for the classroom
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Understanding uncertainty: Breast screening, a statistical controversy
One in nine women will get breast cancer in her lifetime, and it seems sensible to screen women for breast cancer to treat them as early as possible. But, as David Spiegelhalter explains, screening is a controversial issue.
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Don't blame it on the tube
Some preliminary results on the swine flu pandemic
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How to measure life
Which drugs should be available on the NHS?
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Do you know what's good for you?
Plus starts a new project on health and medicine
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Understanding uncertainty: The many ways of spinning risk
Would you prefer a game with a 90% chance of winning, or one with a 10% chance of losing?
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Understanding uncertainty: How long will you live?
Well, no-one knows exactly, but using stats you can make a good guess. This article tells you how and has an interactive life expectancy calculator. Do you dare to find out?
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Understanding uncertainty
What's the risk of passive smoking? Or climate change? How big is the terrorist threat? And should we trust league tables? These issues concern all of us, but it's not always easy to make sense of the barrage of media information. David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, gives Plus his take on uncertainty.
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The best medicine?
To make hard decisions, you need hard facts. Medical statistics can help us to decide what treatment to look for when we are ill, and to estimate our chances of recovery.