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Coverage of the 65th Birthday celebrations

Nature Volume: 471, (03 March 2011)

Editorial (pdf link)

Epidemiology: Study of a lifetime (pdf link)

There is also a short podcast on the 65th birthday 

(From the podcast webpage please scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the play button by 'The generation Game'  to begin listening at the start.)

BMJ 2011: 342:d942

In for the long haul
Feature article on cohort studies (only the extract is free to view)

The Lancet (Vol 377, 05 March 2011) carries a review of the NSHD London exhibition.

Radio Programmes

• NPR Radio: In the Name of Science
• BBC Radio 4 Science: From Cradle to Grave
• BBC Radio 4 Generations Apart: Baby Boomers

Non-online coverage

The Times (Published: 02 March 2011)
Cohort studies play pivotal role in picture of health and wellbeing of society by Mark Henderson

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