JAMA 9 Nov 2011 Vol 306 1983 Replumbing the brain through a hole in the skull is an idea that sounds straight out of the heroic days of kill-or-cure surgery. […]
Month: November 2011
David Payne: Your feedback about the bmj.com redesign
We’ve redesigned the BMJ website. It went live late on Tuesday evening (UK time), with a prominent feedback button on the homepage asking for comments. We’ve produced a video guide to […]
Tom Yates: Cancer survival rates are complicated
“Your chances of surviving from cancer, in America, if you are diagnosed with cancer, is better than in the UK.” Mark Littlewood, (Director General of Institute of Economic Affairs), BBC […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Seduction, hubris and medical editing
At the annual course for new medical editors there were visitors from 25 medical journals around the world. When delegates fly in from Australia, New Zealand, and Chile, it seems […]
Richard Smith: A woeful tale of the uselessness of peer review
Let me tell you a sad tale of wasted time and effort that illustrates clearly for me why it’s time to abandon prepublication peer review. It’s the tale of an […]
Research highlights – 11 November 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 […]
Mike Clarke: Assessing the impact of participating in research – the need for core outcomes?
The COMET Initiative is making it easier for people to develop, identify, and use core outcome sets to improve the potential impact of research findings on healthcare practice, health, and wellbeing. […]
Beverly Collin: Being bold on a budget at Lille
After the initial orientation to the vast Union World Conference on Lung Health (Lille, France), I settled into a series of thought provoking sessions and symposia. There were big concerns […]
Richard Smith: Can we screen for cardiovascular disease using age alone?
Using simply age to screen for cardiovascular disease is as effective as more complicated methods using blood pressure and serum cholesterol, concludes a study published in PloS One in May by […]
Maham Khan: Plastic fetuses, monks, and cake
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” reads the banner greeting women as they emerge from the British pregnancy advisory service (BPAS) clinic in Bedford Square. This […]