Roche’s bevacizumab (Avastin) is in the news again. This has a reasonable claim to be a wonder drug, but for macular degeneration, a disease for which Roche refuses to license […]
Month: August 2010
Domhnall MacAuley: shadows in sports medicine
Sport is seductive. Its exciting, thrilling, and emotional. Watching a sport you enjoy, it is hard not to become drawn into the drama. As a doctor involved with the players, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 31 August 2010
JAMA 25 Aug 2010 Vol 304 859 The first paper in JAMA comes from Denmark for a second week running, meaning that I have to rummage through Hamlet yet again […]
Julian Sheather: Medicine and nature
Synchronicity. The meaningful coincidence of causally unrelated events. It was the Swiss psychologist and all round weaver of the wind Carl Jung who coined the word. […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Good Health at Low Cost: the importance of political commitment
Almost any student of global public health will be familiar with the seminal work Good Health at Low Cost. In honor of the 25th anniversary of the release of the […]
US highlights – 27 August 2010
Further on in this blog, columnist Douglas Kamerow focuses on the seeming competition for funding among US health prevention programs (“Smoking versus obesity: must we target only one?”). But individuals […]
Research highlights – 27 August 2010
“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 […]
Siddhartha Yadav: I am an international medical graduate (IMG)
The term international medical graduate or IMG, here in the United States (US), applies to those who are applying for a higher medical training in the US but did not […]
Emily Spry on what motivates healthcare workers
Yes, I’m still in shock. After a year at the Children’s Hospital, I am now safely ensconced in a north London suburb, doing my final year of GP training. Gone […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review 23 August 2010
JAMA 18 Aug 2010 Vol 304 763 Some time ago I suggested that the best time and place to have a myocardial infarct was at about 10 am on a […]