NEJM 19 Feb 2015 Vol 372 703 In our syphilis lecture at medical school we were told that immigrants coming to the United States of America in bygone days were […]
Month: February 2015
Samir Dawlatly: Can we have our (political) football back please?
With the budget of the NHS being over £100 billion, coming from taxpayers’ money, it is inevitable that health is overtly political. How such a large chunk of the nation’s […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . No
“Aah,” the maximally low and back rounded vowel sound, produced by opening your mouth and glottis and phonating, is not the only phoneme that could have formed the first linguistic […]
The BMJ Today: Tuberculosis, technology, and the art of good communication
News • Andrew Dowson, director of headache services at King’s College Hospital, London, has been suspended from the UK medical register for four months for a “serious breach of professional standards” […]
Aser García Rada: Some thorny questions posed by our response to Ebola
Over the last few months, I had been getting ready for being deployed to Liberia or Sierra Leone with a non-governmental organisation. Regrettably, owing to several doubts I had with […]
Ciara Bottomley: Whistleblowing in the NHS—there is no room for complacency
Out of the harrowing and often tragic cases that were highlighted by the Mid Staffordshire NHS Inquiry, Sir Robert Francis has started an extremely important conversation about whistleblowing with his […]
Jim Sherifi: I am an antibiotic resistance denier
I write as a humble jobbing GP incapable of sound clinical practice without instruction, guidance, and supervision from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), my clinical commissioning group, my […]
The BMJ Today: Salty sputum and self dialysis for Swedes
Research What are the long term effects of multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for patients with chronic low back pain? News • Chicago born Frances Glessner Lee (pictured), the “mother of CSI” […]
Rick Lines: Leading on harm reduction after 2015
2015 is looking like it could be a watershed year for global health. As the United Nation’s millennium development goals come to fruition, and we move towards a post 2015 sustainable […]
The BMJ Today: Latest news on statins data and the UK government comes under fire (again)
News Statins: The Cholesterol Treatment Trials Collaboration plans to produce tabulated results of all side effects recorded in 30 randomised controlled trials of statins by the end of this year. […]