There is a rising welcome trend of women joining medical colleges in India, with female students being comparable in number or even outnumbering male students in many colleges. This trend […]
Month: July 2015
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word … Backslang
Back-formation , forming words by shortening other words, should not be confused with backslang, the formation of words, not by breaking them up, but simply by reversing them. A yob […]
The BMJ Today: Your summer reading medical thriller is here
The case of nutrition researcher Ranjit Kumar Chandra has attracted a news item and a blog. As Owen Dyer reports, Chandra has lost his bid to win damages from the Canadian Broadcasting […]
David McCoy: Divestment is no grand gesture
According to Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust, the Guardian’s “Keep in the Ground” campaign to promote divestment from fossil fuel companies is merely a “grand gesture” that can […]
Richard Smith: Science and journalism threatened in the high court
I wrote this piece some six weeks ago after giving evidence in a libel case reported by The BMJ and published on 30 July 2015 . I’ve had to wait […]
The BMJ Today: Taxing sugar doesn’t have to be taxing
Increasing evidence suggests that taxes on soft drinks, sugar, and snacks can change diets and improve health, Sirpa Sarlio-Lähteenkorva argues in The BMJ today. Arguing in favour of a […]
Artaza Gilani: Pointing fingers: The blame game
Doctors are not infallible; they are human and make mistakes. Occasionally, they know of their mistakes; sometimes, others are aware, while they remain oblivious and other times still, nobody knows […]
Deepak Balak and Enes Hajdarbegovic: Towards harmonisation of referencing styles
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton’s famous quote accurately captures that what is pivotal in science: moving forward […]
The BMJ Today: Handwashing, Medicare, and radiology shortages
A severe lack of specialist radiology training is failing children in the UK, an audit by the Royal College of Radiologists has found. The audit, undertaken in July this year, discovered that […]
Kiran Thapa: Blossoming health services research in Nepal—what are the challenges?
I recently did a PubMed search for Nepal, and I found thousands of articles that had been published in different journals across the world. This was a happy moment for […]