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Month: December 2014
Soumyadeep Bhaumik: Snakebite research in India—no longer so neglected
In 2009 snakebite was added to the list of neglected diseases by the World Health Organization (WHO)—the first official recognition of it as a health problem. But the true burden […]
The BMJ Today: Could you have been trained in 48 hours?
The latest in our series of Head to Head articles was posted yesterday, and has already garnered a response—let us know if you agree with the arguments. Andrew Hartle and […]
Bev Fitzsimons: Supporting community providers to improve quality
If you look at how the NHS is represented in the media, healthcare dramas tend to equal hospital dramas: Casualty, Holby City, even the marvellous Getting on. Community services often […]
Thomas Nierle and Bruno Jochum: MSF should not replace governmental responsibilities on Ebola
MEP Charles Goerens, rapporteur on Ebola to the European Parliament’s Committee on Development, recently declared in a European Council meeting that this epidemic is “the first major international crisis in […]
Francesco Barbabella and Maria Gabriella Melchiorre: Good practice and e-health technology in multimorbidity programmes
The ICARE4EU project wants to improve the care of people who are suffering from multiple chronic conditions. It will describe, analyse, and identify innovative integrated care models for people with […]
The BMJ Today: Editor’s delights
Self prescribing among doctors is legal and commonplace, but its potential problems have been recognised for many years, and regulators are increasingly taking a dim view, writes BMJ Careers editor […]
Jeffrey Aronson: Happy 50th birthday, Yellow Cards
To London, to celebrate 50 years of the Yellow Card scheme. The scheme, which was started by the erstwhile Committee on Safety of Drugs (CSD), and is now run by […]
Alison Cameron: NIHR INVOLVE—changing landscapes
I have been attending a great many healthcare conferences of late—to the extent that they have rather merged into one. A common thread running through all of them has been […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—8 December 2014
NEJM 4 December 2014 Vol 371 2227 “We need to remember that these drugs also have toxic effects, they are enormously and inappropriately expensive, and they haven’t cured anyone yet. […]