It is a sign of the times that one of the best ways for information from outside of hospital to come to my attention is via my Facebook newsfeed. This […]
Month: December 2012
Julian Sheather: Taxing the fat
To the evident frustration of the Danish Medical Association, Denmark has repealed the world’s first tax on saturated fats. The climb-down came after just over a year, the government citing […]
George Alleyne: Global health challenges and opportunities
The standard approach to defining the global health challenges is to use some formulation of Abdel Omran’s epidemiological transition or what is known also as the health transition and show […]
Kieran Walsh: Revalidation starts today
A running joke about revalidation is that its roll out is and always will be 12 to 18 months away. What will mandarins in Whitehall and the colleges chuckle about […]
Richard Smith: Why not auction your paper?
The idea has long been around that instead of submitting your paper to one journal you should auction it to the highest bidder. Today I did it. As we all […]
Rej Bhumbra: Is it ethical to donate second hand implantable devices to the developing world?
Few would disagree that organ donation and transplant surgery is a remarkable achievement. It is a selfless gift that unlocks the potential to cure disease or allay symptoms. But if […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 December 2012
JAMA 28 Nov 2012 Vol 308 2097 Heart failure is a common process of dying which mostly affects people over the age of 75. Living with heart failure can be […]