There is increasing pressure for drug regulators to provide quicker access to new drugs. The pressure comes from doctors, patients, politicians, and the drug industry. What is likely to happen? […]
Year: 2011
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 19 September 2011
JAMA 14 Sep 2011 Vol 306 1089 In medicine, always expect the counterintuitive. For some time it has been known that removing more lymph nodes at the time of bowel […]
David Kerr: The subject that dare not speak its name
Working in the NHS must sometimes feel like working for the United Nations. Whilst first impressions are that our own current team of overseas trainees are actually above average in terms […]
Domhnall MacAuley: 17th Wonca Europe Conference, Warsaw
A celebrated Polish pianist, Waldemar Malicki, opened the Wonca Europe conference. A masterful performance by a maestro. His improvisations were funny, fascinating, and faithful to the theme of the conference; […]
Research highlights – 15 September 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 […]
Richard Smith: Improving dementia care
The recent meeting of the Cambridge Health Network on dementia swung between pessimism and optimism, reflecting perhaps the national feeling. Dementia, said several speakers, is where cancer was 30 years […]
Gaurav Gulsin, Sachin Gupta, Mostafa El Dafrawi: Read it and weep
In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on keeping up to date with the current scientific literature. To practise evidence based medicine, we have to constantly read and […]
Martin Carroll: Time is running out to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
To many observers in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seemed to herald a new era in efforts to improve the lives of those living with poverty, disease, and hunger. […]
Stephen Ginn: Living in emergency
The RSM’s Global health and human rights film club launched on 8 September 2011 with a screening of director Mark Hopkins’ Living in Emergency. Filmed in the war zones of […]
Bob Roehr: Methamphetamine use drives HIV infections among gay Thais
One in 10 gay and bisexual men aged 18 to 21 became infected with HIV during their first year of enrollment in a cohort study in Bangkok. The rate of […]