In a recent YouTube video the NHS Confederation highlighted that by 2050 one quarter (18 million) of adults in the UK will be living with a long-term medical condition. In […]
Month: October 2013
Jett Aislabie: Airport noise and cardiovascular disease
Last week we published a cluster of papers on airport noise and cardiovascular disease. One US based study found a statistically significant association between exposure to aircraft noise and risk […]
James Partridge: Reflections on Niki Lauda: A face from the flames
1 August 1976. A date to remember. Niki Lauda crashes, and the world stops. It stopped me in my tracks and forced me to think back. I had handed in […]
Kailash Chand: Health tourism does not cost the NHS vast sums of money
The government this week announced the first part of its planned crackdown on health tourism, with the Home Office unveiling a host of measures, including plans for a health levy […]
Julian Sheather: To see the world in a grain of wheat
Many years ago I was walking along Kilburn High Road with a sharp-eyed naturalist friend when he spotted an ear of domestic wheat growing in one of those squares of […]
Mark Taubert: Palliative care—a “depressing” specialty?
As part of the Dying Matters Awareness Week in the UK, we were all encouraged to talk openly about dying in an attempt to be more ready for it. [1] […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—14 October 2013
NEJM 10 Oct 2013 Vol 369 1395 It’s been known for at least four thousand years that the heart has two ventricles, but what they actually did was a source […]
Seye Abimbola: Polio eradication and the lens of established thought
In the introductory essay to their timely collection of ethnographic papers on global health, “When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health” (which I think everyone working in global […]
Edward Davies: How health is being hit by the US shutdown
The closure of Panda Cam at the Smithsonian National Zoo may be the highest profile casualty of the government shutdown in the US, but with a third week edging ever […]
John Bowis: Schizophrenia and social inclusion
At the European Health Forum in Gastein, Austria, mental health figured prominently in the programme. The first two sessions centred on “Mental health—the motor for a healthy economy,” at which […]