Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Month: March 2018
Anya de Iongh: How can healthcare services deliver on the vision for personalised care?
With a complete mix of senior politicians, system leaders, voluntary sector representatives and people with lived experience as patients or carers speaking, the National Voices Annual Conference was always going […]
Ana Paula Cavalheiro: Tuberculosis in the spotlight
After decades characterised by a scarcity of good news in the field of Tuberculosis (TB), more recent advances in diagnostics and treatment, as well as public policy, provide some cause […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Guidelines
Last week I discussed Austin Bradford Hill’s 1965 lecture, “The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation?”, in which he outlined what he called “nine viewpoints” that he suggested could help […]
Richard Smith: The dangers of textbooks
Recently published research has found that about half of the authors of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, which is nothing short of a Bible in medicine, have received payments from […]
Amy Price: The unintended consequences of tai chi for fibromyalgia
I am a trauma survivor with chronic pain. My options for surgical relief and pain management have been exhausted as I refuse to have an internal pain pump and the […]
Chenchen Wang: Time to rethink exercise for fibromyalgia care
It’s time to explore new approaches to provide the best care for patients with chronic pain conditions […]
Cristin Lind and Kyle Knox: Co-producing conferences with patients—challenges and opportunities
Cristin Lind and Kyle Knox discuss their experience of co-producing a conference with patients […]
The case of David Sellu: a criminal court is not the right place to determine blame in complex clinical cases
In November 2013 a jury at the Old Bailey found surgeon David Sellu guilty of gross negligence manslaughter (GNM). Sellu had performed emergency surgery on the patient James Hughes who […]
Neena Modi: A bigger vision for child health
The benefits of health in fetal life, infancy, and childhood extend well beyond these periods, influencing adult wellbeing, population health, and national prosperity […]