tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83714061776162168552012-02-17T16:48:45.807+13:00Rachael Randalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02774804127826266029noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371406177616216855.post-10140229482090448412011-09-29T10:32:00.001+13:002011-09-29T10:57:47.276+13:00

In the midst of this season of prime for the Mccaws, Carters, Nonus and Wilkinsons (Tindalls not so much), I thought I’d share this blog post from the Ripple Effect, which questions the unsung heroism of science. I love this, as well as the very insightful comment below which asks: Would more scientists be heroes in our society if they could communicate their love for their work in a lively way

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What would you do if you had bleeding from the bottom? What would you do if you noticed a change in your toilet habits and started needing to strain more than usual or were looser for several weeks at a time? Who would you tell? Anyone? What if it were your partner, your Mum, your Dad, your grandparents? Would they share with you details of any abnormal goings-on in their gluteous maximus region

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With the tragic earthquake in Christchurch still preying on our minds and now as we watch with despair as the horrific events in Japan continue to unfold, blogging about anything else would feel decidedly odd and insignificant – our hearts are full for the people from these two special lands. For me, these tragedies feel particularly close to home. I lived and worked in Japan for three years

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The dawn of a new year is often looked upon as a fresh start, a time to clear out old clutter and reevaluate where you are and where you're going. It's the perfect time to be reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – the Classic metaphysical memoirs of Robert Persig – which is not only stirring my thoughts for the direction I want to take healthypi, but also encouraging me to question

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Since beginning this healthypi blog, my research has taken me far and wide across the social media landscape in science and health. I have been fortunate to come into contact with many wonderful blogs, networking sites and collaborative knowledge-sharing forums; I would love to help build awareness of the very best that I have discovered and to share the most exciting here with you. My aim is

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So far in my blog, I feel that I have been somewhat neglecting the science side of what I do. healthypi is all about healthcare AND science communication (in case it hasn’t clicked, pi stands for the incredible π of mathematics – not the pie that you eat!). So I wanted to outline a little more clearly some of the pi-like things that truly excite me and why, examples of science communication

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Hopefully, this post – my first in a wee while – will be for you a bit like a pint of Guinness.... I am very aware that I have kept you waiting a long time for this last instalment in my blog series on industry and not-for-profit collaboration. July and August were busy but exciting months for healthypi, balancing a number of interesting communications projects, as well as business trips to

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Welcome to the third healthypi blog instalment to review the key issues for commercial and non-commercial relations within the healthcare arena. We have already been introduced to the topic and considered the possible reasons why we might wish to embark on the journey to inter-organisation partnership. I hope you are now convinced to take the plunge?! Want to know where you should start? Let

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Last week's introduction to industry and not-for-profit partnerships was Part 1 of a series and hopefully gave you a taster for what’s to come over the next few healthypi posts. Initially we will focus on strategic alliances within developed healthcare and medical markets, which typically involve pharmaceutical, health biotechnology or medical device companies partnering with not-for-profit

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Advocacy relations within the healthcare communications arena has been a professional passion of mine for a long time now. But it has been a while since I have had the opportunity to take a step back and review together with other communications professionals the current landscape and potential for not-for-profit partnerships within the pharmaceutical, health biotechnology and medical device

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When critical judgments are made on whether particular treatments are to be made available to patients with cancer, the impact of that treatment on the length of time the patients will remain in remission should surely be a significant factor in the decision. In those countries where medicines are funded from limited state budgets, government bodies such as NICE in the UK and PHARMAC in New

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One week ago I published my first blog post. For a Brit who has recently emigrated to New Zealand with her Kiwi husband and who is establishing a new business in science and health communications, it might seem like a slightly odd thing to do… cobbling together a random comment on the UK election results, as if I don’t have enough to do! But the research and opinion-forming has really helped me

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With the 2010 British election results in and the subsequent promise of a Hung Parliament, the prospects for scientific research and access to healthcare over the next few years may look bleak to some. Science was never a priority issue in the general election, with the topic barely being noted in the three debates between Brown, Cameron, and Clegg. What’s more, the country has now been deprived

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