It was pouring with rain when I arrived on a delayed flight to Rome for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), which was organised by the Food and Agriculture […]
Month: November 2014
Global Health Film initiative: Cold Chain Mission—providing immunisation in the world’s toughest places
“Immunisation is the intervention that reaches more children than any other intervention on earth.” Those were the powerful words of Seth Berkley—chief executive of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, which is instrumental […]
The BMJ Today: Are GPs really “overpaid?”
With the mainstream media claiming that GPs are overpaid, whinging, and earning up to £200 000, and the specialist press claiming that practices around the country are closing owing to cuts, […]
William Cayley: Thanks for what?
This has been quite a year . . . but then again, what year is not? Each passing year seems to bring a fresh crop of challenges, crises, obstacles, and […]
Samir Dawlatly: Is NHS privatisation inevitable?
“So what difference would it make if the NHS was privatised?” asked a medical student this week. We had just been discussing my pet conspiracy theory: that the bad press […]
Anna Mead-Robson: In defence of paternalism
I recently had the good fortune to attend “Medicine Unboxed,” a two day series of talks and events exploring the links between art and medicine. This year as an audience […]
Tom Jefferson and Peter Doshi: Thanksgiving special—menus needed at the EMA’s restaurant
It’s hard to imagine a restaurant without a menu, a sheet where the fare is listed, where the ingredients are explained, and limitations are clearly labelled (“not for people with […]
The BMJ Today: How can you provide healthcare without healthcare staff?
The ultimate consequences of problems recruiting doctors and other healthcare workers have been highlighted this week. A report into Scotland’s worst ever outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection describes how difficulties […]
Will Stevens: Parachuting doctor—life as a UK Army Reserve
In my day job I work as a foundation year 2 junior doctor in Oxfordshire, but for the past seven years, I have also been a serving Army Reservist. Last weekend […]
Ted Alcorn: What we don’t know can kill us—confronting gun violence with data
In the United States, the intractable politics of gun violence prevention—and of gun violence itself—rest on a seeming contradiction: we give gun violence far more attention than other causes of […]