Fran Baum is blogging from the 8th World Health Organization Global Health meeting. Read her other blogs here. The morning session of the final day of the WHO 8th global […]
Month: June 2013
Georgios Lyratzopoulos on the revolution in cancer data
Success in reducing mortality from cardiovascular disease combined with improvements in cancer survival mean that the number of people at risk of being diagnosed, or living with cancer, is increasing. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—17 June 2013
JAMA 12 June 2013 Vol 309 2345 “Moral panic” is a term which dates back to the 1830s and describes “an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue […]
Desmond O’Neill: Optimal ageing and the midnight sun
Helsinki in summer is a delight, its streetscapes of Russian influenced architecture illuminated and lifted by the interplay of the midnight sun and the ever present sea. The occasion was […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Unintended misconduct identified in research
Two recent stories provoked a fascinating discussion on misconduct in research—that have nothing to do with the authors, and in the most unlikely of journals. The May 15th edition of […]
Fran Baum on Finland’s primary healthcare system
Fran Baum is blogging from the 8th World Health Organization Global Health meeting. Read her other blogs here. Yesterday was “Europe Day” and the impact of the financial crisis in […]
Fran Baum: How can governments globally get “Big Food” to change its addiction to sugar and fat?
Fran Baum is blogging from the 8th World Health Organization Global Health meeting. Read her other blogs here. It was good to hear Pekka Puska present Finland’s health promotion success […]
Margaret McCartney on the petition to get Bounty reps out of NHS maternity wards
It’s not just me who is annoyed about the presence of Bounty reps on NHS wards, who pay the NHS to be allowed access to give samples of products to […]
Julian Sheather: On tweeting black medical humour
I was at a conference on doctors and social media recently, sharing a platform with the GMC. The organisers put up some darkly funny tweets by doctors at the ends […]
Anita Jain on the Bangladesh factory collapse and corporate responsibility for worker safety
“A mother of two, her left arm amputated, she refuses to ever go near a sewing machine again.” In April this year, the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh collapsed killing […]