Rabies is a neglected tropical disease that predominantly affects the most vulnerable humans—children living in the most disadvantaged areas of the poorest countries. Many countries have successfully reduced the impact […]
Month: January 2015
John Middleton and Jim Parle: Food crime—why should doctors care?
Food crime is big business. It is everywhere. It is international. The same organised crime networks that profit from drugs, cigarettes, booze, people, or any other kind of international traffic […]
Abhishek Bhartia: What can a hospital in India learn from a vineyard in Spain?
A lot, it turns out, about healthcare transformation. A fifth generation wine producing family in Spain faced the challenge of transforming itself in the late 1990s. The family vineyard in the region […]
Charlotte McIntyre: How to survive your surgical ARCP
The Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP) was introduced in 2007, as part of the implementation of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC), and can be an especially daunting time for surgeons […]
The BMJ Today: Raising funds for the fight against Ebola
After a hiatus of more than 18 months, blogger Sandra Lako provides an update from Sierra Leone, where she has been working for the past nine years, improving access to […]
William Cayley: “Enjoy in struggling”
“Struggling is the meaning of life. Victory and defeat are in the hands of God, so one must enjoy in struggling.” The saying above the doorway caught my attention as […]
Sandra Lako: The impact of Ebola in Sierra Leone
Today is the 228th day of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. A year ago I would not have believed anyone who told me that I would be in the […]
The BMJ Today: Working all hours and alcohol use
You would have thought that working long hours would leave people with little time left for an after work drink, but according to this meta-analysis by Virtanen and colleagues, people who […]
Sandesh Kotte: Reviving the public health system in Telangana, India
The first budget for India’s newly formed state, Telangana, was presented amid a lot of hype and media attention. A cursory look at the budget shows that the allocations reflect the […]
The BMJ Today: Polling day
Tuesday is the day we change our weekly UK poll, which enables us to promote the new topic in the weekly print issue (Tuesday is also press day). Our current […]