There is a bewildering number of ways to break a word. In metanalysis you reinterpret the form of a word, creating a new one. An umpire, for example, was originally […]
Month: July 2015
Defining child poverty
The government’s plan to repeal the 2010 Child Poverty Act, which committed it to eradicating child poverty in the UK by 2020, and dispense with the current definition of child poverty […]
The BMJ Today: Cleaning up corruption in medicine
• Can Gurinder Singh Grewal, the new president of the Punjab Medical Council, clean up medicine in Punjab? He is being praised for his anticorruption stance by the media, and his […]
Tom Jefferson: EMA confidential—the EMA continues consultation on its 0070 policy and concerns appear
Following on from its recent webinar I blogged about, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) held a consultation meeting with industry and selected stakeholders to discuss specific aspects of its policy […]
Veena Rao: India’s welfare woes
There’s been a huge amount of criticism in India following budgetary cuts imposed on social sector programmes in this year’s budget, the most prominent being the 50% cut in the […]
Shiva Raj Mishra and Dinesh Neupane: How small local NGOs responded to Nepal’s earthquake
Nepal’s earthquake affected 30 of its 75 districts taking the lives of nearly 8,604 people. 16,808 people were injured. About 3 million were displaced during two major earthquakes less than […]
The BMJ Today: The safety of SSRIs during pregnancy, controversial trade deals, and bow legs and knock knees
• Specific SSRIs and birth defects The association between maternal use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), during pregnancy and birth defects has been the topic of much discussion […]
John Middleton: Cement—Gaza’s forgotten public health need
A delegation of public health professors and specialists from the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) visited Gaza from 5-7 June 2015, and took part […]
The BMJ Today: Money and medicine
• A report by the Kings Fund finds that “clinicians can do more to deliver better health outcomes at a lower cost.” The report points out examples of successful cost-savings and efficiency, […]
William Cayley: Diagnosis—what it’s not . . .
“Phew! At least you don’t have something bad.” “I know doc, but what is it?” I’m afraid that in medicine, we too often focus on the former, and not enough […]