The battle for Mosul is taking place in a densely populated urban centre. Thousands of people are being injured in the crossfire—by explosions, snipers, and air strikes. Sixteen years after […]
Month: June 2017
Tessa Richards: Better together in Central and Eastern Europe
Healthcare is complex and no single government can manage alone […]
Chris Simms: Russian dolls—revealing Trump’s diminution of the common good
A few weeks ago, two of Donald Trump’s top advisers, H R McMaster and Gary Cohn, astonished many in the world community when they wrote in The Wall Street Journal […]
Liam Brennan: The election result can breathe new life into the NHS
Jeremy Hunt, newly re-installed as health secretary, is set to speak at the NHS Confederation Annual Conference this week in a speech that could set the tone on health for […]
Simon Wessely et al: The most common response to traumatic events is resilience
Morale largely depends on care in first 36 hours: rest centres, facilities for children, information, healthcare, and food […]
William Cayley: Can we beat the productivity paradox by working smarter, not harder?
During my morning drive recently, a radio story on the “productivity paradox” caught my attention. Briefly put, the story explored economists’ concerns that despite ongoing technological development, our actual work productivity […]
Richard Smith: Is evidence based medicine a form of microfascism?
My friend Nicholas Christakis recently tweeted: “Critique of evidence based medicine on grounds that it is exclusionary and ‘colonized’” providing a link to the critical article. He added an NB to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—12 June 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Medicine is still a victim of war—we desperately need new ideas
What we are witnessing is war without restraint. But what do we do to stop it? […]
Martin McKee: Creating chaos and confusion from strength and stability—the general election 2017
The chaos that has resulted from the result of the general election has important implications for health, says Martin McKee […]