Mary E Black: Do we really need to have so many meetings?
It’s my fourth month working for public health in the local authority and I’ve had yet another request to join a stakeholder meeting. This time it’s from NHS England to […]
It’s my fourth month working for public health in the local authority and I’ve had yet another request to join a stakeholder meeting. This time it’s from NHS England to […]
Plagues create business opportunities and the worried well in any era present a commercial opportunity. In the Middle Ages, the Black Death and the Great Plague saw brisk sales in […]
I have been looking for biomedical black swans, unexpected findings discovered by acute observation, among discoveries marked by the inclusion of relevant terms noted in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). […]
Continuing my search for biomedical black swans, based on the words newly cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1970 to 2020, I now turn to terms relevant to […]
Continuing my search for biomedical black swans, based on the words newly cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1970 to 2020, I now turn to terms relevant to […]
The technique called optogenetics has been in the news this week, having been used to restore, or at least partially restore, the sight of a man with retinitis pigmentosa, a […]
In his book The Black Swan (Random House, 2007), Nassim Taleb wrote “history does not crawl, it jumps”. Many important discoveries, he asserted, do not come about by careful planning; […]
“We’ve been sprinting a marathon,” the email read. I sighed after reading it. It was the tenth time in as many days this analogy was used to discuss the pace […]
The biomedical words whose earliest recorded written instances are dated 1974 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) are listed in Table 1; as before, pharmacological words contribute the single largest […]
Covid-19 brings into stark view how racial inequalities within the health sector have been damaging, detrimental, and deadly […]