Some tragedies in health arise from complex biological processes; others are born out of political choices, says George Gillett […]
Month: June 2018
Peter von Wichert: COPD—the right terminology in the fight against lung disease?
In medicine, the importance of terminology is not sufficiently discussed, despite the fact that diagnoses and the terms used to name them have such an important role. [1] Scientific medicine […]
Jack Welch: Mental health experiences of young adults with autism are still overlooked
Mental health issues are one of the major struggles of our young generation. For autistic people, like me, the scale of the problem is no less. Seventy percent of autistic […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Grimley Evans, geriatrics, gerontology, and geratology
Sir John Grimley Evans, Grimley to all who knew him, died unexpectedly on 26 March 2018, and Oxford’s Green-Templeton College, previously Green College, of which he was an emeritus fellow, […]
Richard Smith: A cholera epidemic
Most doctors in high income countries have never seen a case of cholera, but if they were to spend a day in the hospital of the icddr,b (formerly known as the […]
Bringing the gag rule home: the Trump administration wants to infringe women’s rights to abortion counselling
Proposed rule will limit federal funding for abortion counselling and provision […]
Unreported clinical trial of the week: A prostate cancer vaccine in combination with flutamide (NCT00450463)
Nick DeVito and Ben Goldacre Background The US FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA 2007) requires certain clinical trials to report their results onto ClinicalTrials.gov within one year of completion. Our FDAAA […]
Embedding public and patient involvement in research
A researcher, patient advisor and patient reviewer describe how they included patient input in a trial from the start right through to publication […]
Mary Dallat: Retaining the UK’s close bilateral working relationship with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
As the UK plans for a post-Brexit state, careful consideration of current health security provisions is needed to protect and enhance the public’s health across the UK and EU. Infectious […]
Terence Stephenson on the Williams review—the chance to make our health system the safest and best must not be missed
It is a huge disappointment that the review has failed to seize the opportunity to protect doctors’ reflections in law […]