Smoking still kills. Today it will kill 200 people. [1] People will die from heart attacks, from cancers, from respiratory illnesses, and many other conditions. But smoking doesn’t just kill. […]
Month: June 2015
The BMJ Today: Risks of caesarean delivery, medical abortions, and sepsis in children
• Time to consider the risks of caesarean delivery for long term child health In an analysis article, Jan Blustein and Jianmeng Liu examine the evidence linking caesarean delivery with […]
Jocalyn Clark: Does it pay to pee? An Indian city thinks so
When in public, where to pee? This is a universal challenge with a surprising array of local solutions. Last month Tahmima Anam, in her characteristically delightful New York Times column, […]
The sustainable development goals: Priorities for the global health community?
As the 2015 deadline for the attainment of the millennium development goals (MDGs) approaches, a UN working group has released a draft proposal for their successors. Among the health related […]
Jean Riley: A carer’s perspective on personal health budgets
I am Jean Riley, the mother of a beautiful 26 year old daughter who has profound and complex needs. When we adopted our daughter from an orphanage in Romania, we […]
The BMJ Today: Waterpipe smoking and Pfizer launches fightback
• Pfizer steps up battle to defend control of Lyrica—Andrew Jack reports on how Pfizer has launched a charm offensive on UK doctors after a barrage of criticism over action […]
Richard Smith: Time for GPs to be leaders not victims
General practitioners are overworked, underappreciated, and perhaps underpaid. Politicians are unsympathetic to their plight and expecting more of them. Hospital doctors dump work on them. Nurses are after their jobs. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—8 June 2015
NEJM 4 Jun 2015 Vol 372 2185 If you are the sort of exciting doctor who looks after adults with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, here is just the article you […]
Kenneth Collins on patient attitudes to women doctors
Hetty Ockrim qualified in medicine in 1943, and after a short spell as a general practitioner in a mining community in wartime Blantyre and some hospital experience in obstetrics, she […]
The BMJ Today: Transgender care, stroke care, alcohol industry lobbying, and who was the best health secretary?
• The rise of transgender care In February 2013 Kaiser Permanente was the first mainstream US healthcare provider to open a transgender health clinic, in Oakland, California, Bob Roehr reports. […]