As average global temperatures rise, the stability of the monsoon rainfall, over the past century, has been uncertain. It has long been expected in South Asian regions that heavy rain […]
Month: September 2010
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 6 September 2010
JAMA 1 Sep 2010 Vol 304 967 A couple of weeks ago, the BMJ published a rather strange piece about the terrible psychological effects of chemical castration in men with […]
Research highlights – 3 September 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 […]
Anjum Khan on HIV and TB in Uganda
Uganda is the colour blue, that intense, clear sky. Uganda is green; bright, vivid trees swimming with life. Uganda is red, crumbling soil everywhere. Some things stay with me; the […]
US highlights – 3 September 2010
After months of preparation, bmj.com has just moved to a new technical platform. The website looks different and has many new and improved features. However, a few features and functions […]
Julian Sheather: Doctors’ religious beliefs and end of life care
Early on in my ‘career’ in ethics – I put the word in scare quotes not only because the idea that my rather shapeless crashing about should be dignified with […]
Richard Smith: Medicine needs to feel defeat
Defeat is a marvellous thing. It can refresh in a way that never happens after victory. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, I thought this morning as I awoke, if medicine were […]