Teenage pregnancy (within the ages of 13-19) is a major public health concern. About 16 million females aged 15-19 and about 1 million girls aged less than 15 give birth. […]
Year: 2014
Aser García Rada: Abortion in Spain
This year´s Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, celebrated on 28 September, was especially welcomed in Spain. Earlier that week, Spain’s prime minister and leader of […]
Abdullah Aljoudi: An epidemic free Hajj
“Complete the pilgrimages … for the sake of God” Quran 2:196 The 2014 Hajj was epidemic-free, according to Saudi Arabia’s acting health minister. In addition to the regular Hajj health regulations, this […]
The BMJ Today: The pitfalls of migration
I’ve been taking lots of travel histories lately. As a GP who sees lots of patients with fever, patients are even starting to pre-empt me (” . . . and […]
Sanna W Khawaja: What can we learn from the locum?
When recounting the tale of my first ever shift as a bona fide doctor, the line “I was on call with a locum SHO and a locum Reg” tends to […]
Richard Smith: The joy of a hernia repair
I had a hernia repair recently, but the day turned out to be one of the pleasantest I’ve had in a long time. Can that really be true? Oddly, I […]
The BMJ Today: The challenge of getting ready for autumn
As the seasons shift here in the UK to embrace autumn, more people will seek advice for coughs, sore throats, and hoarseness, but are you up to date on laryngitis? […]
Mihail Călin: Romanian healthcare workers keep packing
An oncologist from Tulcea, a city 280 kilometres east of Romanian capital Bucharest, returned to work one week into his retirement because there was no other specialist to care for […]
The BMJ Today: Ebola and the importance of taking a travel history
The new cases of Ebola virus disease reported in Spain and the United States in recent days have reminded healthcare workers around the world to be vigilant for the infection. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—13 October 2014
NEJM 9 October 2014 Vol 371 1381 With blood transfusion, it seems that less is usually better. This has been shown in renal patients and palliative care, and is now […]