Dr Tedros set out his priorities on SDGs […]
Month: September 2017
Richard Smith: Science fiction stories foresee a bleak future for healthcare
The rhetoric of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the medical royal colleges, and medical researchers is that the future of healthcare is bright. Personalised medicine is coming; diseases that are […]
Sharon Roman: In good hands
What are the qualities that make for a good doctor and what can patients do if they’re missing? […]
Michael Marmot: The UK’s current health problems should be treated with urgency
Michael Marmot discusses why he’s calling for Jeremy Hunt to address urgent health problems in the UK […]
Joe Fraser: It takes more than language to make a good patient-clinician relationship
If you’re a clinician or a “Type Zero” (someone without diabetes) choosing the words to use when talking about diabetes is not straightforward. That’s true even for “Type ones” like […]
Philip Berry: Teething problems with duty of candour
To doctors what began as a transparent human response has evolved into a series of deadlines […]
Richard Smith: Trying to make patient monitoring outside of intensive care widely used
Dinesh Seemakurty’s idea for a business came to him as he sat by his grandfather’s hospital bed in Kakinada, India. His grandfather had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had been […]
Kate A Levin: Low uptake of advance directives and the cost to public health
The older population in every country in the world is growing.1 In several high income countries, the increased health burden of older people on public spending is occurring at a […]
Peter Doshi: Speed vs safety in the FDA’s new drug approvals—speed wins, again
In the late 1980s, AIDS activists stormed the headquarters of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with a message that the FDA’s drug approval process was, simply put, killing […]
Alice Welbourn: WHO and the rights of women living with HIV
Women’s rights to informed choices about what happens to their bodies are often contested—especially if they are pregnant or have HIV. Yet informed choices about risks and benefits form a […]