According to various professional guidelines, if we’re the right age and gender, we’re supposed to have our breasts, lungs, prostate gland, cervix, colon, aorta, [1] liver, [2] pancreas, [3] heart and brain [4] […]
Month: March 2016
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Andrew Herxheimer and his Golden Rules of drug therapy
Andrew Herxheimer, an old friend and colleague, has died, aged 90 (picture). Andrew was primarily a clinical pharmacologist, but much more besides. His main interest was in improving patient care, […]
Sue Hogston: What little progress has been made for neurological services in England is in danger of slipping away
With more than four million people in England* currently living with a neurological condition—such as motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, or Parkinson’s disease—it is very concerning, yet sadly unsurprising, […]
David Payne: How disease outbreaks drive digital innovation
To what extent do disasters and disease outbreaks drive developments in digital health? And as the WHO and other national and global health agencies get to grips with the Zika […]
Gareth Iacobucci: FOI reprieve is welcome but expect the pushback to continue
This week, privacy campaigners breathed a sigh of relief after a review commissioned by the UK government decided not to change the law to introduce greater restrictions on the release […]
Richard Smith: The death throes of national medical journals
Earlier this week the Canadian Medical Association fired the editor of the CMAJ and dissolved the journal’s oversight committee, which was supposed to protect editorial independence. While doing so, the board of […]
Gaurav Sharma: Where do women seek family planning, antenatal, and maternity care in low and middle income countries?
A series of papers entitled “Who cares for women?” was launched at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Wednesday 13 January 2016. The objective: to provide the […]
Charline Bradshaw: The Calais crisis and grassroots movement
There are an estimated 6000 men, women, and children living in a disused refuge site in Northern France. A recent census revealed that there are around 423 unaccompanied minors among […]
Neel Sharma: Lightening the learning load during junior doctor ward rounds
Educating newly qualified junior doctors to become masters of their trade is not easy. Hospital life is fast paced and typically acute. Rapid patient turnover as well as demands on […]
Richard Smith: Is prison health better now it’s an NHS responsibility?
In the 1980s people in prison received a second class health service despite having a high prevalence of health problems. I visited many prisons at that time and wrote a […]