Michael Harrison

May 7, 2024 | asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Hugh Alberti |Michael Harrison |Nicola Mulgrew

1 BACKGROUND Anthropogenic climate change—the warming of planet Earth through human activities—is considered to be the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century.1 Paradoxically, the health care provision has a significant carbon footprint, causing detriment to the environment.1, 2 The NHS is responsible for around 4% of the total carbon emissions in the United Kingdom (UK).2 Therefore, the NHS plays an essential role in the United Kingdom achieving its internationally agreed net...

Apr 12, 2024 | hematologyandoncology.net | Sundhar Ramalingam |Daniel George |Michael Harrison

Overview• Brain metastasis in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma generally signifies a poor prognosis. • Surgical resection is an option for patients with a single metastasis and good extracranial disease control. Stereotactic radiosurgery is an option for patients with limited-volume brain metastasis, whereas patients with more widespread disease require whole-brain radiotherapy.

Dec 1, 2023 | independent.co.uk | Michael Harrison

The first time I encountered Alistair Darling was in the summer of 1996. He was a newly-appointed member of the Treasury team in Tony Blair’s shadow Cabinet and I was the business editor of this newspaper. The last time I met him was in Edinburgh in the autumn of 2019 when I was researching a book on the great financial crash of 2008, a crisis in which Darling played no small part. In the intervening years one of us went on to great things.