The suicide of Yoshiki Sasai is both tragic and shocking. Sasai was deputy director of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, and a co-author of reports in Nature on the […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—11 August 2014
NEJM 7 August 2014 Vol 371 497 A new gene for breast cancer susceptibility? The PALB2 gene locus has been known about for several years, but this study puts it […]
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“The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest and most complicated that the world has even seen.” It is from this starting point that a group of experts […]
The BMJ Today: Combating Ebola, and more on statins
This morning the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa an international health emergency and stated that a concerted international response is required to stop […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Understanding what communities really value
There is nothing more convincing than someone citing research, and yet we often don’t know if what’s being cited is any good. Research can be bad if it’s poorly conducted […]
Chris Hopson: NHS waiting times—the long and the short of it
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s speech earlier this week, which called on NHS hospitals to clear their backlog of patients waiting more than a year for treatment, rightly pointed to the personal consequences […]
The BMJ Today: Boring can be beautiful
Mary E Black’s blog on making data beautiful caught my eye this morning. As a technical editor at The BMJ I see a lot of tables, graphs, plots, and charts. I […]
Lavanya Malhotra: India’s lost girls and doctors’ complicity
According to India’s 2011 census, the sex ratio in India was 943 women for every 1000 men. Yet a recent report by the United Nations reveals that the child sex ratio in India has […]
The BMJ Today: What good are doctors?
Call it an exercise in reflective learning or a sign of deep insecurity, but articles like Richard Smith’s latest blog (“I hate going to the doctor“) always make me (mentally) […]
Mary E Black: Data is really beautiful
My whine of the week, if not the decade . . . Given that data, and in particular big data, is inevitable, exciting, inspiring, unlocks potential, has fabulous hidden patterns, […]