Editorial: High potency cannabis In this editorial, Wayne Hall and Louise Degenhardt’s editorial discuss the recent research article published in Lancet Psychiatry that found daily use of “skunk” (a highly […]
Month: March 2015
David Pencheon: How health professionals, organisations, and systems can invest in a healthy future
Our behaviour is more influenced by our surroundings than we think—it is a response to what happens around us: physically, socially, and culturally. We are shaped by norms more than we […]
BMJ Today: Overdetecting AAA and breast cancer, and how much do people care?
Overdiagnosis in screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm Johansson and colleagues discuss the assumptions and evidence behind such screening programmes, and call for a revisit of these programmes “because of reduced […]
Richard Smith: Why the faithless need to work with faith based organisations
Perhaps because Britain is a land of atheists, the British don’t understand the importance of faith based organisations as well as they should. Stephanie Ferguson, director of the International Council […]
Saurabh Jha: War on Death
Thomas Hobbes described life as pitifully “nasty, brutish, and short.” Thanks to the free market and the state, life is no longer a Hobbesian nightmare. But death has become nasty, […]
Stephen Cannon: How can cosmetic surgery be made safer for the public?
In January, the Royal College of Surgeons published a consultation on proposals to improve standards in cosmetic surgery. It is open until Friday 6 March 2015. Although the vast majority […]
Janneke Hartvig Blomberg: Insights into infant feeding practices in Indonesia
Experts in nutrition, researchers, academics, and business leaders gathered in London last week for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)’s Symposium to progress thinking around infant and young child nutrition. When […]
The BMJ Today: Mortality rates, umbilical clamping, and penis length
Clinical review • Assessment and management of dementia Professor Helen C Kales and colleagues present a State of the Art Review on the assessment and management of dementia and introduce the DICE […]
Peter Baker: Men’s health—a problem hidden in plain sight?
The poor state of men’s health must be one of the biggest health issues routinely not talked about. It is ignored or sidelined by virtually all national governments and by […]
Emma Rourke: Could you give up chocolate for a month?
This March, the British Heart Foundation is asking people to “give chocolate the finger” and embark on a strict no-chocolate “dechox” regime. There can be no denying that it is […]