On Monday 23rd November, Stephen Mumford and Roger Kerry gave a two-part lecture at the Council for Allied Health Professions Research London Hub – Evening Lecture. The topic was ‘What is Science and Why do Health Professionals Need to Know?’. Handouts and a podcast from the event are available here. Continue reading “What is science and why do health professionals need to know?”
Can medicine explain medically unexplained symptoms?
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) represent a major challenge for healthcare systems in industrialised countries. These symptoms are so prevalent that they are assessed in up to 50% of consultations in primary care. The repeated referral of these patients to secondary care represents a substantial cost, but not a resolution of the symptoms which often remain unexplained. Continue reading “Can medicine explain medically unexplained symptoms?”
Re-Thinking Preclinical Research
How efficient is it really to exclude individual variability, context sensitivity and plurality of causes from lab models?
by Elena Rocca
Faith in medical research has decreased recently. Despite all the expectations of ‘personalized medicine’ and ‘tailored drug research’ since the dawn of the post genomic era, pre-clinical medical research has remained pretty much the same. Continue reading “Re-Thinking Preclinical Research”
Welcome to the CauseHealth blog!
By Rani Lill Anjum (@ranilillanjum)
This is a blog for the research project Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences (CauseHealth). Allow me to present the team and some of our ideas. Continue reading “Welcome to the CauseHealth blog!”
Causality, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences 