Medical students and doctors belonging to the newly created organisation “Big Society NHS” organised a Valentine’s Day themed protest against the Health and Social Care Bill, currently being debated in […]
Month: February 2011
Richard Smith: The breast cancer epidemic
The world is on the cusp of a major epidemic of breast cancer, said Peter Boyle, head of the international prevention research institute in Lyon, France, at a conference on […]
Mervyn Dean on palliative care in Tanzania
It would be a stretch to say that I have now adapted to the African way, but after three weeks here at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, […]
Vanessa Hattersley on getting rid of VAT on fruit smoothies
Although innocent is a relatively young company (12 years old in 2011), it has a long history of campaigning for the reduction of VAT on fruit juice and smoothies. Both […]
Martin McShane: Where to start?
We are only two months away from it becoming real for GP consortia. I was looking through the information going to one of our pathfinder executive meetings in the next week. […]
Richard Smith: Five things about the NHS that are not sustainable
“There are five things about the NHS that are not sustainable,” said Phil Morley, chief executive of Hull and East Yorkshire Trust, in the middle of a conference last week […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 14 February 2011
JAMA 9 Feb 2011 Vol 305 569 If I were a woman, the things I would most fear from breast cancer surgery would be arm lymphoedema and recurrence of the […]
Research highlights – 11 February 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 […]
Sandra Lako: Life-saving blood
While driving past an NGO hospital last week a friend read out a sign painted on the hospital wall stating that patients need to come with their own blood donors. […]
Jonny Martell: Is love a drug?
Like most things related to sex, “This House believes that Female Sexual Arousal Disorder is a fabrication,” proved a popular motion for the 41st Maudsley Debate at the Institute of […]