The other day my NHS Trust sent me notification that I was due renewal of my Disclosure and Barring (DBS) clearance (previously called CRB). I was asked to bring my […]
Month: October 2016
Christopher Stokes: One year after Kunduz
Battlefields without doctors, in wars without limits Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is remembering one of the darkest moments in its history. On 3 October 2015, US airstrikes killed 42 people […]
Madhukar Pai and Nimalan Arinaminpathy: How can India overcome tuberculosis?
India reports more cases of tuberculosis than any other country. This much is well known. However, nobody quite knows the true magnitude of the TB problem in the country. For […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 October 2016
NEJM 29 Sep 2016 Vol 375 Creating a Zika vaccine In the 15th century, sailors from Cadiz set sail under a captain from Genoa to find the western route from Europe […]
Vageesh Jain: Donald Trump—a disaster for global health
As the US presidential election inches closer, Donald Trump appears to be tapping into the American zeitgeist. But what would a Trump presidency mean for the world? Some say nothing […]