We recently had another visit from Barack Obama to the San Francisco Bay area. However, rather than sampling the delights of the city, the President drove south down route 101 […]
Year: 2011
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 3 May 2011
JAMA 27 Apr 2011 Vol 305 1625 Obedience is no longer a fashionable concept, though it was once prized as the most essential virtue in religion and society (see Psalm […]
Martin McShane: The calm
As a child I remember standing on a beach and marvelling at how unnaturally still and calm everything seemed. It was a few hours before a hurricane hit the coast. […]
Richard Smith: Waiting for Putin
Along with about 600 other people, 90 of them health ministers from all over the world, I spent two hours recently waiting for Vladimir Putin, prime minister of the Russian Federation, […]
Sandra Lako: World Malaria Day in Sierra Leone
World Malaria Day was this week and unfortunately, although a preventable disease, malaria still kills many people in the developing world. At the children’s hospital I work at, we see […]
Tracey Koehlmoos on open versus free access: lesson learnt
Out of the blue on 28 March my colleagues and I received notification that all Lancet journals are now available to everyone in Bangladesh. As you can imagine, this is excellent […]
Anya Sarang: Russian prisons as a source of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis presents a serious problem to public health all over the world and especially in countries with developing economies. In spite of the availability of effective treatment for simple tuberculosis, […]
Sarah Welsh: Becoming a centenarian
How long do you expect to live… 70? 80? Maybe even 90? Many consider being around in your 80s is an impressive feat. Yet, new figures suggest as many as […]
Jochen Schmitt and Hywel Williams: Harmonising outcome measures for eczema in clinical trials and routine care
Eczema (synonymous with atopic dermatitis and atopic eczema) affects about one in five preschool children, up to one in eight adolescents, and approximately 3% of adults. The constant itching caused […]
Nathan Ford: Improving treatment for severe malaria
Major advances in drug therapy are rare, particularly in the neglected field of tropical diseases. So it was quite appropriate that when the results of the largest trial ever done […]