Being a self-sacrificing soul I recently enrolled myself in a critical piece of public health research: I gave up alcohol for January. If appetite is the new front-line in health, […]
Month: January 2011
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 31 January 2011
JAMA 26 Jan 2011 Vol 305 391 Stroke medicine grew up in the 1990s: like heart failure medicine, it shone welcome light on a large and neglected group of patients […]
Peter Lapsley: I can see clearly now…
Never one to shirk my fieldwork as patient editor of this esteemed journal, I pottered along to the Moorfields Eye Hospital outreach clinic in Ealing yesterday morning to have the […]
Rachel Wake: A glimpse into “Choleraville,” Haiti
There is a Haitian proverb which goes “deye mon, gen mon” – beyond the mountains there are mountains. Consider Haiti’s history for a moment – tainted by slavery, witchcraft, civil […]
Research highlights – 28 January 2011
“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 […]
Vidhya Alakeson on US healthcare reform
The theatre of politics has been on full display in Washington of late. Last week, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed […]
Athalia Pyzer: “Allergic to anything?”
5 November 2013: This blog has been removed. […]
Richard Smith: Twitter to replace peer review?
An interesting article in Nature gives what may be a glimpse of the future of scientific discourse by telling stories of how social media have done a much better and […]
Abhay Bang on saving children’s lives
In 1945 my father had just been released from prison after taking part in India’s freedom movement and wanted to travel to the US to study economics. One week before he […]
Richard Smith: Statin arguments
A Spanish friend who is a pharmacist and basic scientist and with whom I have a spirited argument over the polypill has emailed me to gloat over the press reports […]