Letter of Obituary: Grant Townsend

Obituary: Professor Grant Jordan*

Professor Grant Jordan died on Friday 23 June at his home in Hatton, UK, aged 68. Most people know him as an esteemed international scholar in the field of public administration, the policymaking process and interest group politics. We remember him as a valued colleague, mentor and friend. After graduating from Aberdeen University (the class of 1971), Grant worked in market research for 18 mont...

Vitamin D and cancer incidence--letter from Grant.

The recent article by Skaaby and colleagues (1) reported that there were no significant associations between baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25 (OH)D] levels and incident internal cancer rates during an 11.3-year median follow-up time. One reason for the failure to find significant associations is the long followup time, mentioned in passing in the article. This effect has been studied with...

Spence , Alexa and Townsend ,

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A Functional Look at Back Pain and Treatment Methods REPRINTED FROM THE TOWNSEND LETTER FOR DOCTORS

This essay presents a radical departure from the conventional viewpoint of clinical therapeutics. It states that to resolve back pain often requires neither strengthening nor stretching, neither mechanical skeletal adjustment nor application of electrical stimulation, heat or cold, neither muscle relaxants nor surgery. In many cases, to resolve back pain requires nothing more than improving the...

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