A hospital “lullaby factory” and a children’s hospice extension in the style of a garden shed are among 15 health related buildings to welcome visitors as part of Open House […]
Month: September 2014
David Oliver: Tails of the unexpected—could the NHS learn from vets?
As I sit at my keyboard, I am looking at my calm and contented 3 year old calico cat, Tilly. Apart from the shaved area on her flank, you wouldn’t […]
Helen Morant: Characters welcome
You’d expect an academic researching the influence of TV and games on children’s development to be presenting some data about violent games as causative factors in school shootings. But Sandra […]
The BMJ Today: Profanities and protests in public health
Public health has become heated, with the fiery debate over e-cigarettes pushing one public health director over boiling point, and public health leaders across Europe becoming incensed by changes at […]
Duncan Jarvies: Preventing Overdiagnosis 2014—I am not legion
I’m against overdiagnosis, overcooked food, and over long films, said David Haslam, chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. All of us probably agree—especially when it comes to overcooked […]
Ahmed Rashid: “Physics envy” in evidence based medicine
Researchers have long debated the relative complexity and importance of different scientific disciplines. Traditionally, sciences that used the most mathematical equations—such as physics—were deemed the most intellectual and placed at […]
Richard Smith: Is global health too medicalised?
When I teach young doctors in Amsterdam about responding to NCD (non-communicable disease) in low and middle income countries, I ask them how they would allocate 100 units of resource. […]
The BMJ Today: Medicines have a new competitor—gamification
Gamification is a theory, not just a trend. It is the use of game mechanics to solve real world problems, and that includes those that originate in the body. If […]
Daniel Maughan: What has climate change got to do with mental health?
This blog is part of a series on sustainable healthcare, which looks at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blog is coordinated by the Centre for Sustainable […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—15 September 2014
NEJM 11 September 2014 Vol 371 1016 Ticagrelor has had mixed fortunes since it was introduced as a new thienopyridine platelet aggregation inhibitor a few years ago. The PLATO trial […]