At last week’s Union World Conference on Lung Health, TB patients finally took centre stage, with patients invited to describe the realities of the two year treatment regimen for multidrug […]
Month: November 2013
R Srivatsan: Seemandhra, Telangana, and healthcare prospects in the region
On 9 October 2013, an Indian newspaper reported that over 4000 babies died due to a lack of acute medical care because of an electricity failure in the region now […]
Kieran Walsh: Do you believe in interprofessional education?
Do you believe in interprofessional education? Do you believe in problem based learning? Do you believe in objective structured clinical examinations? Do you believe in reflection in action? Or reflection […]
Hugh Rayner: Right patient, right time, right place—an example from kidney care
Dialysis treatment for end stage kidney disease is a burden on patients, taxpayers, and the environment. The carbon cost of dialysis is estimated to be seven tonnes CO2 equivalents per […]
Jim Murray: The EU, transparency, and access to clinical trial results
How is the EU involved in transparency and access to clinical trial results? Many readers will know this already, but perhaps not all. For obvious reasons, health professionals have tended […]
Richard Smith: Does it take an earthquake to reform healthcare?
Integrating the fractured and fractious components of health and social care systems seems to be everybody’s current favoured “solution” for healthcare problems, but it’s hard to make happen. We now […]
Michel Kazatchkine: Aids—huge progress but time for a rethink on how to end the epidemic for those most affected
The progress made against AIDS in the last decade has been extraordinary. In the last decade, close to 10 million people in developing countries have been given antiretroviral treatment. In […]
Edward Davies: What’s the point of all this? Existential angst at the AAMC
What’s the point of all this? I ask not as a suicidal prelude or remark of self-indulgent philosophy, but after two days at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) […]
Gabriel Scally: A grotesque parody of fairness
It’s a long way to go from Bristol to Boston for a conference, but I’m adding to my carbon footprint and attending the 141st American Public Health association meeting. It’s […]
Ingrid van Beek: Navigating the urban policy jungle—some dos and don’ts
The past 20 years has seen an increasing commitment to evidence based medicine. This approach has also started to inform public policy making. This more objective way of determining the […]