By Nick Watts, Nicola Wheeler, Pauline Castres The decision of the US President to quit the Paris Agreement will not trump that momentum. […]
Month: June 2017
David Southall: Ending the international arms trade could reduce terrorism and prevent the death of civilians
Advocacy by health professionals could help stop the arms trade […]
Ferraye and Bloem: Laser shoes and public transport
Technological innovations are rapidly being introduced into healthcare, with the aim of improving patients’ health and promoting self-management. Examples include the development of new ambulatory technologies that can assist patients […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 June 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Can it really be true that 50% of research is unpublished?
Whatever the precise non-publication rate is, it is a serious waste of the roughly $180 billion annually invested in health and medical research globally […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The IDEAL shape of promulgation
Last week I suggested that passive diffusion and active dissemination of the outcomes of research could together be called “promulgation”. To promulgate is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as […]
Breakfast versus lunch, which packs the biggest punch?
Under the banner of “Fairer Funding,” the Tory manifesto outlines plans to change the current universal free school lunch system for infant pupils to a means tested programme plus universal […]
Richard Smith: Disappointed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on health
Democracy, we are all told and mostly believe, is “the least bad form of government.” Sadly and ironically that belief is hardest to sustain during elections when we are deluged […]
Yiran Wang: Ticket touts in Chinese hospitals
Appointment ticket touts are prevalent in the medical system in China, especially in big hospitals. They monopolize appointments for well-known doctors and increase prices to very high levels. The practice […]
Suchita Shah: The lost brigade—why diasporas matter to global health
Reflections on the second UK-East African Healthcare Summit, London 2017 Talk of nations, national borders, and national identities has become a part of the ideological foreplay that inevitably leads up […]