The best thing about TEDMED is its delegates. Firstly they genuinely want to talk to you. Secondly they are all really interesting. Everyone has either worked for NASA or is […]
Month: April 2013
Readers’ editor: Video abstracts
Cuba’s population witnessed huge economic change after losing the former Soviet Union as a trading partner in 1989. Food shortages caused by the downturn led to obesity rates falling from […]
Domhnall MacAuley: International Quality Forum, day 1
On welcoming 3300 delegates from 80 countries to the International Quality Forum in London, home of the BMJ, Fiona Godlee (editor in chief, BMJ) asked us to remember the recent […]
Luisa Dillner on TEDMED
I want the world to be a better, healthier place. Really I do. And now, at my first TEDMED conference in Washington DC, I have high hopes of hearing from […]
Richard Smith: Two deaths
A woman I hardly know and I are sat in a café in a country far from Britain, and the conversation turns to death. She tells me of two deaths […]
Pritpal S Tamber: And so, it’s time for TEDMED
Regular readers of my blog will know that this week is TEDMED, the US based event that looks—with a multidisciplinary lens—at the future of health and medicine. I’m TEDMED’s clinical […]
Suchita Shah: First responders—a note from Boston
It is 11.59 pm and there is an eerie silence. All afternoon, sirens were wailing relentlessly outside my window, pushing through Red Sox traffic to reach Boylston Street ten minutes […]
David Lock: Organ donation and presumed consent—not a complete answer?
Organ donation presents a unique problem for those concerned with the rationing of medical treatment. Unlike almost any other area of medical care, the constraint on supply of NHS medical […]
Paul Glasziou: From mummified evidence to living EBM—a few tools
On a tour of WHO headquarters, in Geneva, I wandered past a vast cellar of shrink wrapped unused and unread guidelines. It occurred to me that, given around 7% of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—15 April 2013
JAMA 10 Apr 2013 Vol 309 I try my best, dear Reader, oh I do. When I see an issue of JAMA devoted to Genomics, I don’t just sigh deeply: […]