The era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came to an end on 8 September 2015, and a new era in global milestones have been launched with the Sustainable Development Goals […]
Month: September 2015
Mona Nasser: How can research publication be improved?
The first day of the EQUATOR/REWARD conference coincided with the publication of the most recent article on reducing waste in research—“increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research: who’s listening?” […]
BMJ Today: Junior doctors’ contract, cardiac rehabilitation, and working for the US marines
• The junior doctors’ contract: how did we get into this mess? With junior doctors about to vote on whether to strike over government plans to impose a new contract on […]
Tracey Koehlmoos on working as a policy adviser in the US Marines
And so…after two years and seven months at the Pentagon as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Commandant and Senior Program Liaison for Community Health Integration in the United States […]
The BMJ Today: Practising what you preach, corporal punishment, and scientific misconduct
• Walking the walk? Drug and device manufacturers have been keen to publicise their rhetoric to share clinical trial data, but is it happening in practice? Mayo-Wilson and colleagues found […]
Richard Smith: If Volkswagen staff can be criminally charged so should fraudulent scientists
A man who steals a milk bottle may face a criminal charge. In contrast, a scientist who invents data, defrauds funders, and publishes fabricated data that may lead to patient […]
The BMJ Today: Diagnosing miscarriage and IBS
• When is it safe to diagnose a miscarriage? There has been some debate about miscarriage diagnostic criteria over past years, with evidence emerging in 2011 that criteria at the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—28 September 2015
NEJM 24 Sep 2015 Vol 373 1220 I suspect that good randomized trials of common procedures are difficult to do. Each French doctor probably has a favourite way of gaining […]
What can we learn from the success of the polio eradication initiative in India?
Popular opinion from many failed previous health programme implementations is that vertical programmes are resource consuming and might not be very helpful to strengthen health systems. [1] The same was […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Adam’s apple
The Hebrew name of the first man, Adam (אדם), was also used to mean “man” itself, although the more usual word is “ish” (איש). The origin of the name is unknown, […]