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Month: February 2016
Andrew McDonald Johnston: Ebola resilience in Sierra Leone
On the 14 January 2016 a new case of Ebola virus disease infection was confirmed in Sierra Leone, only hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that the Ebola […]
Saffron Cordery: The old slogans are often the best
Sometimes it’s good to revive an old slogan. The one that’s been running round my head recently is that 80s environmental campaign: think global; act local. There isn’t necessarily an instant […]
Soumyadeep Bhaumik’s review of South Asian medical papers—February 2016
We are now officially in a new era of global health—the era of the Sustainable Development Goals. The month of January saw the publication of some papers from South Asia which […]
Aeesha NJ Malik: Improving children’s eye health in Pakistan
1.5 million children in Pakistan are blind. Many from eye diseases which are preventable and treatable. Often children don’t know they have a vision problem because they assume they see […]
Tim Lobstein: Community interventions for healthy bodyweight—can we make them work?
Groups like mine which advocate for market interventions to restrict advertising, raise taxes, control fast food outlets and the like, are having a tough time making progress. Governments prefer to […]
Neville Goodman’s Metaphor Watch: Guns and needles
Sometimes research goes badly, and red herrings lead to a blind alley (qv), but sometimes there’s a smoking gun: conclusive evidence just a little bit short of being caught in […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—1 February 2016
NEJM 28 Jan 2016 Vol 374 Venetoclax & CLL 311 Venetoclax is a wonderful name. I shall set up a burglar alarm company in Venice so that I can see […]
Patrice Baptiste: What is the future of the NHS?
During my foundation years I wasn’t completely sure about what specialty I wanted to pursue within medicine so I decided to take a year out of training. Although not my […]