“GPs warned to steer clear of tranquiliser trap,” Reading the headline—I expected the usual GP bashing. But, the headline misled and the story was based on a joint statement by […]
Month: January 2013
Richard Smith: A variation on the theme of the importance of publishing
I fully support the Alltrials campaign to see all clinical trials published, and I’m a signature to the letter of people who have participated in trials and are horrified that […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Flu season in the US
To many people in the US, flu season is rather like world cup football is to the rest of us. Flu has been on the front page of many newspapers […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Why “paperless” is meaningless
The National Health Service (NHS) of England is enduring the enthusiasm of a new health secretary. As he gets to grips with his £110bn toy he is, as you’d expect, […]
Candace Imison: Will 2013 be the year of meaningful public engagement with service change?
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is the latest to join the growing chorus of medical colleges calling for change in hospital services with RCS President Professor Williams’s statement launching […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—21 January 2013
JAMA Intern Med 14 Jan 2013 Vol 173 The Archives of Internal Medicine have now morphed into JAMA Internal Medicine. It would be nice to report that this first issue […]
Tiago Villanueva: Is there an end in sight for austerity?
I’ve blogged before about the impact of austerity on healthcare, mainly on the hard hit Portuguese healthcare system. And just when I thought things have already gone too far, new […]
Andrew Burd: Are data real?
I have just turned 60 and am due to retire at the end of this academic year. In anticipation of this rather sad situation I enrolled, two years ago, in […]
Louise Finch: Lifebox in Uganda—following up donated pulse oximeters
Thousands of well intentioned donations are made to developing countries every year but many of these do not achieve what was hoped; they don’t make it to the intended recipient, […]
Ian Woolley: Hepatitis E in South Sudan
Pestilence, along with war, famine, and death, is sometimes portrayed as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse of the Bible’s Book of Revelations, which describes, amongst other things, […]