What will it take to ensure that all women in the developing world can determine for themselves when and if to have a child, have healthy and planned pregnancies, and […]
Month: July 2012
James Raftery: NICE, obesity, and bariatric surgery
The trends on obesity are shocking. UK data on the prevalence of obesity in adults and children are provided by the National Obesity Observatory, which also shows the social gradient […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Brave IOM starts defining the knowledge to practice chasm
I survived. In a recent post I worried that the bigwigs at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) would be underwhelmed by my contention that one of the main—and perhaps the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 12 July 2012
NEJM 5 July 2012 Vol 367 11 Eltrombopag is a name which has moved me to poetry in the past, and there is a grave danger of this happening again. […]
Julian Sheather: Happy-ology
It is possibly the oldest of all philosophical questions. Although academic specialisation has tended to brush it to the wings—embarrassed perhaps by the sheer indeterminate unwieldiness of it—the question of […]
Annie Neo Parsons: News from the People’s Health Assembly
As the Third People’s Health Assembly (PHA) develops, it’s more and more obvious that global forces impact at a country level. Conversations about WHO reform, universal health coverage, and human […]
Fran Baum blogs from the People’s Health Assembly
Day two of the People’s Health Assembly focused on social and physical environments that destroy or promote health. Brian Ashley, South Africa, spoke eloquently about the shape of the climate […]
Liz Wager on the launch of the concordat to support research integrity
I just attended the launch of the concordat to support research integrity developed by some major UK funders and Universities UK. It’s easy to quibble at documents that try to […]
Marge Berer: All I had to do was take a pill every day, I was told, and hey presto, I didn’t have to worry about getting pregnant
I was among the first generation of women in the 1960s to experience the miracle of the pill just at the age when I was wanting to start having sex. […]
Edzard Ernst: The “middle ground” fallacy
When we are confronted with two opposing views, we tend to look for the comfort of the middle ground hoping the truth might lie somewhere between the two extremes. For […]