NEJM 26 May 2016 Vol 374 An end to oncology drug madness? 2001 “Seamless Oncology-Drug Development” is a viewpoint piece about the research and regulatory changes that have allegedly been […]
Month: May 2016
Linda Bauld: The road to standardised tobacco packaging in the UK
Every year in the United Kingdom around 200 000 children start smoking. Half of those who try a cigarette will become regular smokers, putting themselves at risk of tobacco related […]
The SOCHARA Team on providing community health in India
The Society for Community Health Awareness Research and Action (SOCHARA), an Indian NGO, is recognised widely for its promotion of community health through networking, innovative training, research, policy engagement, and […]
Jamie and Sue Mumford: Palliative care in Ethiopia
We have recently returned from our fourth visit to Addis Ababa. With less than 1% of the estimated 150,000 new cancer cases annually in Ethiopia receiving specialist oncological treatment [1], […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Errors
The village of Erice sits above the town of Trapani on top of a mountain about 750 metres above sea level in the north-west corner of Sicily (picture below). Its […]
Zosia Kmietowicz: A charter for women who are pregnant in prison
It is 20 years since a TV documentary showed a British prisoner give birth while handcuffed to a prison guard. Anyone who remembers the images must be asking why a […]
Lawrence Loh: Public health and why terminology matters
As younger generations of physicians develop a newfound interest in the social determinants of health, public health has increasingly become a buzzword for providers to throw about. In the medical community, it is […]
Claire McDaniel and Daniel Marchalik: Considering patients’ stories through Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son
The Doctors’ Book Club Adam Johnson The Orphan Master’s Son After her son was arrested by the secret police, Anna Akhmatova spent seventeen months waiting outside the Leningrad prisons for news […]
Evidence Live 2016: Promoting informed healthcare choices by helping people assess treatment claims
Iain Chalmers, Paul Glasziou, Douglas Badenoch, Patricia Atkinson, Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, and Andy Oxman. In the run up to Evidence Live 2016, we are running a series of blogs by the […]
Suzanne Gordon: What we call healthcare professionals matters
The other day I attended a patient safety workshop at a major US hospital. The physicians and nurses, IT, and other quality and safety staff in the room were deeply […]