Ironically, the annual sakura (cherry flowers) season has just come to Fukushima when one month has passed since the first earthquake and tsunami hit us. Fukushima is famous for its […]
Year: 2011
Muir Gray: Japan, a little good news
I have been to Japan on a number of occasions and learned a great deal from the people I have met there, and from what I have read. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 26 April 2011
JAMA 20 Apr 2011 Vol 305 1545 Chronic kidney disease, pre-diabetes, subclinical hypothyroidism, vitamin D insufficiency, attention deficit disorder, asymptomatic systolic dysfunction, borderline personality disorder, early chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, […]
Research highlights – 22 April 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 […]
Douglas Noble on the fragmentation of public health
Talk to almost any public health specialist and they’ll express their biggest concern about the current NHS reforms in England as fragmentation of the public health service. To understand why fragmentation is […]
Fiona Pathiraja: Twitter – the medium and the message?
In his BMJ blog last week, David Kerr asked whether Twitter would ever be used for healthcare. As soon as this blog was posted, the Twitter healthcare community was buzzing […]
Tiago Villanueva: National health services are a great thing, particularly in times of financial austerity
Looking at my country’s national health service which is chiefly funded by taxes, from a user’s rather than from a provider’s perspective (or better, from a passive rather than from an […]
Peter Lapsley: Compassion in dying
Over the past fifty years or so, science and medicine have been remarkably successful in extending people’s lives. But health professionals, focused on curing illness, or preventing or delaying death, […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Palliative care
Dying is not much fun. As a GP I have seen a lot of it. Its not the very end bit that bothers me. The last breath is, paradoxically, often […]
Jeremy Sare on drug sentencing
Most drug users are not addicted. Most suppliers of drugs are not dealers. These central truths about patterns of drug use in Britain are incompatible with the policies adopted by […]