There is a public health crisis that is threatening the health and lives of men, women, and children across our planet at an alarming rate, and the richest nations are […]
Month: November 2014
Desmond O’Neill: A gerontological fear of missing out
Faced with a gerontology conference with 30 parallel sessions over five days, the texting argot of teenagers comes in handy. To LOL and YOLO has been added FOMO: Fear of […]
The BMJ Today: Gender and health—are men and women so different?
There are differences in the way men and women experience healthcare. Sometimes this is because the sex of a person confers a particular risk for a disease. Sometimes societal norms and […]
Samir Dawlatly: Open letter to the Department of Health and NHS England
Dear Department of Health and NHS England It seems clear that you, the medical fraternity, as well as the mass media agree that there is a recruitment and retention crisis in […]
Neal Maskrey: Treating the patient and not the disease
It was the biggest turnout for many a year. In our small coastal town in the north west of England, 5000 of us stood together bare headed for an hour on […]
Christopher Burns-Cox: The Assisted Dying Bill
It does look as if most people now at last want to enable suffering persons of a sound mind and with less than six months to live to be helped to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—17 November 2014
NEJM 13 November 2014 Vol 371 1867 “Metastatic melanoma remains just over the border of curability. As we wait and hope for some breakthrough in an agonizingly incremental process, there […]
The BMJ Today: How can doctors learn about research?
In my previous role at The BMJ, I had the chance to work on Endgames, whose educational content is aimed at helping junior doctors in the UK and around the […]
Tackling a pandemic: Is Ebola the definitive lesson?
Until recently, Ebola was rarely heard of in the developed world, but during the last few months, we are receiving such a high volume of daily information on Ebola virus […]
Tamasin Cave: NHS England needs to come clean on its spending
Transparency is a much used word in the new NHS. It is the key to safer care, says Jeremy Hunt, and the most important innovation in health, according to NHS […]