Top Stories published by WintonCentre in 2018

The risks of alcohol (again)

A recent paper published by the Lancet demonstrating the global impact of alcohol consumption was a huge exercise from the Gates Foundation-funded Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle. They built a large and complex statistical model from a vast range of…


Bizarre conclusions from alcohol study

A paper entitled The relationship between alcohol use and long-term cognitive decline in


Can we say who has died because of the breast-screening appointment error?

Newspapers are claiming to have identified some of the ‘up to 270’ women who Jeremy Hunt claimed may have died early because of the breast-screening programme error. This seems both inaccurate and…

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