Without peer review The BMJ could not survive. The journal uses reviewers to help assess the quality and usefulness of about 8000 papers per year. In […]
Month: June 2015
David Eedy: What lessons can be learned from the collapse of dermatology services in Nottingham?
The independent investigation into the near collapse of the acute and paediatric dermatology service in Nottingham has called the process an “unmitigated disaster.” This collapse was foreseeable and avoidable, and […]
The BMJ Today: Cancer, climate, and dementia
• Cancer diagnosis The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released new guidelines to try to speed up the diagnosis of cancer. They recommend that all GPs […]
Marge Berer on the global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health
This week in New York, the zero draft of the outcome document of the post-2015 development agenda, “Transforming Our World,” will be negotiated at the United Nations (UN). The document […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—22 June 2015
NEJM 18 June 2015 Vol 372 2387 For the first time in years, I actually handled a new printed copy of the NEJM last night. What a suave production it […]
Richard Smith: Is informed consent impossible at the end of life?
Informed consent is impossible at the end of life, said a British palliative care physician last week at a conference on Heybeliada, one of the Prince’s Islands in the Sea […]
The BMJ Today: Insulin pumps, industry gender bias, and cervical lesions
• Insulin pumps Isabelle Steineck and colleagues have investigated the long term effects of insulin pump therapy on cardiovascular diseases and mortality in people with type 1 diabetes. They studied […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The story of ough
Violet Elizabeth’s “croth-word puthle,” composed for William to solve in Richmal Crompton’s William—In Trouble (picture further below), contains two three lettered words crossing at the centre letters. The first clue […]
Desmond O’Neill: Surprised by beauty
Like most doctors, my conference schedule is usually mapped out well in advance, anticipating the complex leave requirements of trainees and colleagues in an ever busier department of geriatric and […]
The BMJ Today: IBS, body dysmorphia, and alteplase
• New treatments for irritable bowel syndrome In this state of the art review, Magnus Halland and Yuri Saito look at the scale of the problem of IBS worldwide and […]