David McCandless’s talk at the Royal Statistical Society David McCandless is perhaps the best known information graphic designer of our time. He exploded onto the design stage a few years […]
Month: November 2014
The BMJ Today: Sex, babies, and future plans
I don’t get out much, but with blogs like the one by Nigel Hawkes to read, I don’t feel I need to. It gave me a great picture of the […]
Chris Simms: What can Senegal teach the West about dealing with Ebola?
Ten years ago, Peter Piot (the discoverer of Ebola) wrote the foreword to a collaborative effort on HIV strategies by nearly 200 scientists. He warned that an effective country response to […]
Khaled E Emam: Pseudonymous data is not anonymous data
Recently, efforts have been made to make health data more generally available for secondary purposes, including research. These include the recent policy announcements from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on […]
Nigel Hawkes: Searching for truth behind the taboos—or how science demystified sex
Serious students of sex, from Krafft-Ebing onwards, have not always had an easy time, possibly because some of them were distinctly odd. A new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in […]
The BMJ Today: Tweet, share, and like
One of my personal goals this year was to become more tech savvy and engage with social media. I already had a Facebook account. I even had a Twitter account, […]
What’s the leading cause of death among children in Bangladesh? It’s not what you think
The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) program focused needed attention on unacceptably high levels of child deaths across the world, dedicating its MDG4 target to reducing the under 5 mortality rate […]
Billy Boland: Final thoughts on the NHS Leadership Academy
Having made my final submission for the NHS Leadership Academy, and after being told I’ve passed the course by my learning set, the programme should be in the bag. That […]
The BMJ Today: Safe self monitoring and patient treatments
Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are a leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide, with associated problems of poor foetal growth, low birth weight, and preterm delivery. While there is a trend […]
Colin Brown: In the field in Sierra Leone—part two
In the second instalment of this blog series, I will share some ongoing challenges faced by Sierra Leone in treating Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). I will also share some success […]