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 […]
Year: 2011
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 […]
David Kerr: Connected for health – an alternative view
There are now two groups of people living with chronic disease, those that are connected and those who are not. In days gone by, “being connected” meant having personal and […]
Richard Smith: Outlook bleak for mental health
Mental health disorders—particularly depression, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease—account for a huge proportion of the global burden of disease, but the outlook for better treatments looks bleak. I don’t think that […]
Julian Sheather: The fifth horseman of the apocalypse?
During the years when the Book of Revelations was being laid down, some time apparently in the first century AD, human populations were likely, with some exceptions, to be small, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 7 November 2011
JAMA 2 Nov 2011 Vol 306 1874 The older you get, the more likely you are to have a haematological malignancy, and the less likely you are to be able […]