Las Vegas hosted the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HiMSS) annual meeting again last week. With more than 45,000 people in attendance, it is at once intense and unwieldy. […]
Month: March 2016
Adam White: Why tackling in school rugby should be banned
Seventy academics, doctors, and public health professionals recently called for a ban on tackling in school rugby. They have called upon “Childrens’ Commissioners to protect children from the risks of harmful […]
Christopher Cox: What Brexit means for employment law
In June a referendum will decide whether or not the UK should exit the European Union. If we decide to leave, what might be the implications for employment law? It’s […]
Prashant Jha: The BMJ’s free access trial for South Asian content
In 2015, at the BMJ South Asia Awards in Mumbai, we announced a plan to open up access to content relevant to South Asia for readers of The BMJ from […]
Junior doctors’ strike: March 2016: Live blog
This week, junior doctors in England will be taking industrial action for the third time so far this year in response to the government’s decision to impose a new contract on the […]
Peter Doshi, Matthew Herder, Tom Jefferson: Honouring Vanessa?
Health Canada seems to want to have it both ways: be seen as a regulator that serves the public interest through a progressive commitment to transparency, yet be trusted by […]
Jorge Ramírez on the doctor’s strike in Colombia
Recently junior doctors in the UK have been in the news for taking industrial action in protest at their new contract. A similar situation is happening in Colombia. However it […]
Julian Sheather: Extremity piled upon extremity—where next for medical neutrality?
In times of war, said Cicero, the law falls silent. Afghanistan. Iraq. Syria. Yemen. Somalia. Ukraine. Libya. Chad. An irregular patchwork of violent conflict lies across great swathes of the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—7 March 2016
NEJM 3 Mar 2016 Vol 374 Inducing for better outcomes? 813 This useful British trial was done with the ultimate aim of reducing stillbirth, which tends to happen more in […]
Jerome P Kassirer: A Canadian purge
Earlier this week the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) fired the editor in chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), citing slipping journal revenue and declining reputation as a cause. […]