Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and poor mental health—are major and growing public health threats for all regions of the world—rich and poor, […]
Month: April 2014
The BMJ Today: Prisoners and medical professionalism
Sarah Kimball and Stephen Soldz’s editorial on The BMJ’s website today raises important questions about medical professionalism when dealing with prisoners. A recent report into the role of doctors in prisons […]
Päivi Hietanen and Matthew Richard: Providing healthcare in a Syrian refugee camp
A new temporary home in the desert Assisted by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Jordanian authorities, large families flee their homes in war torn Syria to seek refuge […]
Rhys Davies: Imagining the Future of Medicine—not just robots and old people
On Monday 21 April, the Royal Albert Hall played host to a curious event. Imagining the Future of Medicine was an afternoon filled with a variety of speakers and artistic […]
Glyn Elwyn et al: Crowdsourcing health care—hope or hype?
The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science How does the increasing interest in the use of crowdsourcing platforms, as a way to help patients, fit into the debate about […]
Richard Smith: Do sexual abuse of children and research misconduct have something in common?
Every so often I hear stories of people prominent in medical research who are suspected of research misconduct—or research fraud, as it was once more bluntly called. Could the stories […]
The BMJ Today: Good figures, bad figures, and no figures
New statistics on The BMJ‘s website today show improved cancer survival rates in the UK. Half of patients diagnosed with cancer today will survive for at least 10 years, whereas only […]
Jane Smith: Robot journalism
Imagine a news story written and published within three minutes of the event happening. That’s a real scenario described by Emily Bell in her T P Stead Lecture at the […]
Ewout van Ginneken: ICARE4EU—important progress and challenges ahead
The ICARE4EU project wants to improve the care of people suffering from multiple chronic conditions. It will describe, analyse, and identify innovative integrated care models for people with multimorbidity in […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—28 April 2014
NEJM 24 Apr 2014 Vol 370 1583 The New England Journal has put so many good articles online first lately that I’ve left myself with thin pickings this week. This […]