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March 2010
• Undewriting the elderly
• Diabetes update
• Female issues in underwriting
• Unnecessary medical screening
• Financial: Economic crime
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January 2010
• Tele-interviewing: Managing the conversation
• Automating underwriting
• Depression treatments
• Financial: Valuing goodwill
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November 2009
• Tele-interviewing
• Chronic pain
• Underwriting manuals
• Depression mortality
• Financial: Due diligence
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September 2009
• Underwriting manuals
• Confidentiality in the Facebook/Twitter age
• Women, obesity and cancer
• Statins and myopathy
• Coeliac disease mortality
• Financial: 'Just trust me'
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July 2009
• Underwriting manuals
• Anorexia/bulimia in middle age
• Online medical records
• Occupational underwriting
• Financial: Personal assets of the wealthy
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May 2009
• Reports from 2009 LUCID conference
• Social construction of illness
• In memory of Brack: Mortality/morbidity patterns
• False positives in cancer screening
• Financial underwriting clinic - preventing corporate bankruptcy
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April 2009
• Cardiovascular disease calculators
• Legal risks of innovation
• Evidence-based rating
• PSA screening value
• Financial: Accounting fraud
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February 2009
• Voice signatures
• Teleinterviewing and disability income
• Sleeping pill risks
• Sudden death and antipsychotics
• All-age polypharmacy
• Financial: Accounting standards - low credibility
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December 2008
• Outsourcing
• The value of exercise ECGs
• Waist circumference/waist-hip ratio
• Family history
• Medical meta-analyses
• Financial: Is it a going concern?
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October 2008
• Trust and confidence
• DI claims: the biopsychosocial approach
• Problem drugs
• Bone-strengthening drugs
• Financial: Asset valuation
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August 2008
• DI and the biopsychosocial effect
• Genetic testing update
• Summer time and the livin’ is risky
• Financial: International accounting standards
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June 2008
• Treatment of BP in diabetics
• Arterial calcification on mammogram
• The trouble with urine
• The polypill revisited
• ED predicts CVD
• Cancer trends
• Financial: Bankruptcy, gambling and suicide
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March 2008
• Reliability of clinical trials
• Inflammation, CVD, COPD and CRP
• Gender equality
• Drug side effects
• Financial: Beware past performance
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January 2008
• Electronic health records
• NNT – the hidden stat in statins
• Polypharmacy revisited
• Financial: Securitization of 'receivables'
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November 2007
• Doctor-patient collusion
• Female CVD mortality
• Non-disclosure – an alternative view
• eGFR and renal function
• Contagious cancers
• Financial: Small businesses and the credit crunch
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March 2007
• Extreme sports
• Epidemic of diagnosis
• Atrial fibrillation – early mortality
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January 2007
• Using data for competitive advantage
• Depression drugs increase fracture risk
• Financial: Insurable interest and SOLI
• Financial: The mystery of financial statements
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