Childhood obesity is one of the greatest challenges facing our society as well as our NHS. Approximately one in three children leaving primary school in England are overweight or obese, […]
Month: June 2018
Richard Lehman’s journal review—25 June 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The Days of Pi
Earlier this year, my statistician colleagues invited me to join them for lunch on Pi Day. As resolved by the US Congress in 2009, after informal celebrations since 1988, Pi […]
Hilda Bastian: A Mediterranean diet trial’s retraction and republication leaves a trail of questions
It started with a paper by John Carlisle in 2017. [1] He analysed baseline data for participants in over 5,000 randomised trials, looking for differences in trial arms that would […]
Kieran Walsh: Learning on the ward
The ward round is an excellent opportunity for medical education. It is an opportunity to learn about taking a history, examining patients, ordering tests, and making decisions about management. If […]
The long-lasting damage of Trump’s family separation and child detention policy
Inaction will fortify the process of dehumanization and will rob us of our most human trait, empathy […]
Sean Love: Access to medical care, a human right, must also be guaranteed to Julian Assange
Sean Love, a physician who has met with Julian Assange several times, calls for him to be given access to healthcare […]
Jenny Vaughan: The Williams Review—a significant step forward for all
“I was deeply concerned about the unintended chilling effect on clinicians’ ability to learn from mistakes following recent court rulings, and the actions from this authoritative review will help us […]
Kanchan Mukherjee: Bedaquiline for multidrug resistant TB in India—at what cost?
The decline of TB in the developed world began long before the discovery of TB drugs. This is an important lesson for India, says Kanchan Mukherjee […]
Kinsey Hasstedt: Trump administration looks to impose “Domestic Gag Rule,” continuing its assault on reproductive health and rights
In late May, the Trump administration unveiled its latest attack on affordable birth control access, part of a much larger campaign to undermine reproductive health and rights in the United […]