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The BMJ Today: Candy Crush Saga, health warnings, and WHO’s financial woes
I’m a bit of an Apple lover. Not the fruit, but the company, although the odd golden delicious has been known to make an appearance in the fruit bowl. The […]
Gillian Turner: Recognising frailty in older people
Given the current emphasis on emergency admissions and older people, it is perhaps not surprising that the words “frail” and “frailty” are used almost interchangeably with “older people.” Yet more […]
Tessa Richards: Health 2.0—new technologies and e-patients
“All changed, changed utterly.” W B Yeats’s famous line was triggered by the Irish rebellion in 1916. Close to 100 years on, it could describe how digital technologies and social […]
The BMJ Today: Doom and gloom in the UK and Australia
Each Tuesday at our morning meeting, we suggest ideas for the print journal’s “picture of the week” before it goes to press. If today was a Tuesday, I would propose […]
Liz Allen: The economic case for medical research
Former US president Bill Clinton achieved a lot in the White House. He presided over the longest period of peacetime economic growth in American history, he signed the North American […]
The BMJ Today: Return of the Patient’s Journey and a history lesson from Richard Lehman
Two years ago, GP Michael Frank Harris discovered a right inguinal swelling while looking in his bathroom mirror. He writes about what happened next in the return of our Patient’s […]
Angela Coulter: Person centred care—what works?
“There’s no evidence that it works.” In these days of evidence based medicine, that’s a real clincher—a good reason to avoid a treatment or procedure that offers no proven value. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—16 June 2014
NEJM 12 June 2014 Vol 370 2265 Obstructive sleep apnoea is often a result of weight gain, and unfortunately, once it is established, losing weight does not reduce it. But losing […]
The BMJ Today: Is EBM broken? Then how about a nice cuppa
Is evidence based medicine broken? That’s the question that Greenhalgh et al are asking in this Analysis article. From inside The BMJ, with our attempts to shed light on unpublished […]