About 10 months ago I blogged that an exodus of doctors from Portugal would be a sign of Portugal’s worsening economic situation. Medicine has always offered one of the few stable and prosperous careers. Most […]
Month: January 2012
Martin McShane: Tipping point
The announcement last week of the design of the NHS Commissioning Board is critically important. It signals the end of the prolonged period of ambiguity which managers have experienced since […]
Deborah Cohen: “Poisonous” hip implants
“Poisonous hip implants ‘putting thousands of British patients at risk’ as medical watchdog launches investigation,” a Daily Mail headline announced today. It followed on from a front page splash in […]
Richard Smith: Death festival: day two
The second day of the festival began with Jude Kelly, the artistic director of the Southbank Centre, explaining that the festival is about “reshaping our ability to look death in […]
Richard Smith: Death festival: day one
The Southbank Centre, London’s art centre on the South Bank of the Thames, is holding a festival of death. The aim is “to look death in the eye…to confront mortality […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 30 January 2012
JAMA 25 Jan 2012 Vol 307 373 Here’s the kind of study that’s all too rare in the medical literature: an important interventional trial that is not funded by pharma. […]
Research highlights – 27 January 2012
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Deborah Cohen: Roche responds
It’s worrying that the quest to evaluate the evidence underpinning major public health decisions feels like a game of chess—how do you try to anticipate the next move of your […]
Richard Smith: What has feminism done for global health?
The Lancet, the leading journal for global health, has mentioned feminism only twice in its 189 years . The BMJ hasn’t mentioned it at all. So that looks like some […]
Anne Gulland: No news is bad news: how the papers filled their health pages over Christmas
The period between Christmas and 1 January is a quiet one for UK news outlets. The government and most major organisations hold back big announcements until the new year; and […]