Anyone who has taught medical students in recent years will be familiar with the sight of students appearing more interested in the screens of their laptops, tablets, or mobile phones. […]
Month: April 2015
John W McEvoy on the Baltimore riots
When I came to Baltimore from Ireland in 2008 many people said I was crazy. I often heard from friends and colleagues, “Be careful, that’s where they made The Wire.” […]
The BMJ Today: A healthy NHS, preventing SIDS, and more on Nepal
• A letter to the next secretary of state for health In an open letter to the politician who will become secretary of health after the UK general election on […]
Paul Auerbach on being part of the relief effort in Nepal
I’ve just joined the International Medical Corps team that will be growing to help meet the needs of Nepal following the recent devastating earthquake. It wasn’t easy to fly in, because the airport […]
Alvaro Bermejo: Linking prevention and treatment—the only way to stop HIV infections
While new global HIV infection targets, including the recently adopted UNAIDS Fast Track targets—which aim for no more than 500 000 new infections among adults by 2020 and no more […]
Abhishek Yadav: Nepal struggles to cope with the aftermath of the earthquake
It was just another Saturday morning in Kathmandu city. Suddenly, the earth moved. “Earthquake!” I sounded the alarm as I gathered my family and clambered out of the house. Disoriented […]
The BMJ Today: Hidden calories, a derailed salt strategy, and a call for aid to Nepal
• Is it time for calorie labels on alcohol? How much do you know about the calorie content of your favourite tipple? Probably not much, if you follow the trend […]
The role of a health partnership: Development of a Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Uganda
The past few decades have been marked by unprecedented interest in evidence based medicine (EBM), and a focus upon the use of innovative methods and protocols to provide valid and […]
Jocalyn Clark: Bhutan is a happy land. But is it healthy?
How can one not feel joy in a place called Land of the Thunder Dragon, the traditional name for Bhutan, the tiny landlocked South Asian nation south of Tibet known […]
Huw Llewelyn: The way forward from “rubbish” to “real” EBM in the wake of Evidence Live 2015
This blog is part of a series of blogs linked with BMJ Clinical Evidence, a database of systematic overviews of the best available evidence on the effectiveness of commonly used […]