Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal and former president of the Royal Society, believes that robots might replace human beings within 50-60 years. Looking at writings from him on the web, […]
Month: February 2014
Rebecca Coombes: Greece’s young reject the Mediterranean diet
In Athens this week, at a meeting about Europe’s obesity crisis organised by the Greek government, talk is dominated by the expanding waistlines of Europe’s children. At the event’s smart […]
Richard Smith: The history of surgery—my contribution
In his book “Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall,” Spike Milligan modestly suggested that his part had been small. My contribution to the history of surgery is even smaller […]
Jonathan M Glass: Blood taking is so much more than phlebotomy
Blood taking is so much more than phlebotomy. It’s so much more than the mere act of putting a needle in a patient’s arm. It’s so much more than filling […]
David Buck: Tackling health inequalities: we need a national conversation
In one of The King’s Fund’s most popular and commented on Time to Think Differently blogs last year, Gabriel Scally questioned whether we had lost the battle to tackle health […]
James Raftery: NICE proposes alternative for value based pricing
Recent headlines have indicated NICE’s displeasure at how it has been asked to implement value based pricing. The stories are based on a paper, “Value based assessment of health technologies,” […]
Wilson Cheng: Misguided messages on safe male circumcisions
Three large randomised clinical trials that took place in Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa were published in 2007, and showed that medically performed circumcision is safe and can reduce men’s […]
David Payne: Books for the incurably curious
When John Keats switched from medicine to poetry he found a different way of healing people, according to Andrew Motion. Motion, a former poet laureate, attributes his interest in medicine […]
Julian Sheather: Ugandan anti-homosexuality legislation: bad law, bad science
For all the fanfare that headline science can generate, it is usually quiet science that arouses my sympathies. Carefully uncovered facts can settle like welcome oil, stilling the troubled waters […]
BMJ Journals research highlights—24 February 2014
BMJ Journals research highlights is a regular round-up of research papers appearing in the BMJ Journals. Thorax If clotters fibrose what do bleeders do? Evolution has ensured that numerous genes […]