For many, smartphones and other web-enabled technologies have become ubiquitous, mediating activities from shopping to travel, from banking to romancing. From health apps to patient forums, the experience of being […]
Month: September 2015
Iain Frame: Why does it take so long to make innovative treatments and technologies available to patients in the UK?
As a scientist now working as a director of research responsible for overseeing a large programme of research funding, I can understand the frustration experienced by researchers who have invested […]
#ILookLikeASurgeon: Uniting a diverse global surgical community on social media
One early August evening, Heather Logghe, a US surgical resident, logged onto Twitter and posed the question, “Is #ILookLikeASurgeon next?” Inspired by Isis Wenger, who sparked the recent #ILookLikeAnEngineer viral […]
The BMJ Today: The migration crisis, vaccine safety, and assisted dying
• The migration crisis and health in Europe Providing preventive care to “irregular migrants”—that is, those who do not have full legal status—as opposed to waiting until a condition must […]
Richard Smith: Disciplined for being human
“Doctors need to bring something of themselves to their patients, to make a personal connection, if medicine is to be a healing science,” writes an anonymous obituarist, somewhat portentously, at […]
Trish Groves: How research data sharing can save lives
Everyone’s been missing a trick. The whole debate on sharing clinical study data has focused on transparency, reproducibility, and completing the evidence base for treatments. Yet public health emergencies such […]
Mike Kendall: What do the new NICE guidelines mean for people living with type 1 diabetes?
As a patient involved in the development process, I hope that these guidelines for Type 1 diabetes in adults have a powerful, positive effect on the lives of many living […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—7 September 2015
NEJM 3 Sep 2015 Vol 373 895 The cool new look is beige and fat. Understanding beige fat may be the beginning of the end of obesity in humans. Or […]
Tim Ballard: Will a tax on sugary drinks work?
Channel 4 recently aired a documentary by Jamie Oliver called Jamie’s Sugar Rush. Following on from his successful advocacy aimed at improving the nutritional quality of school meals he has […]
Georg Röggla: Refugees and civil society
The migration crisis has reached Central Europe. About 10 000 migrants arrived in Vienna within a few hours on Saturday, most of them on their way to Germany. The situation […]