To begin solving the problem we first need to admit that there is one […]
Month: June 2018
Unreported clinical trial of the week: HTX-011 development (NCT02504580, NCT02762929, NCT02689258)
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 […]
Anna Matheson: Can New Zealand’s wellbeing budget help address social inequalities?
Plans for a wellbeing budget have been met with scepticism and hope. This article is part of the Building Healthy Communities collection. […]
Sarah Chapman: Co-producing conferences with patients—voyages of discovery?
Sarah Chapman discusses the challenges and opportunities of co-producing conferences with patients […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—4 June 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Richard Smith: The case for medical nihilism and “gentle medicine”
Most practising doctors are instinctive medical nihilists, argues Richard Smith […]
Carl Heneghan on Iain Chalmers: Evidence of a legend
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is highlighting seven research legends whose work has shaped the NHS, as part of its celebrations for the NHS’s 70th birthday and the […]
Neville Goodman’s metaphor watch: Uncommon words
There are some words that I keep having to look up. They are not common words, and in the intervals before seeing them again I forget what they mean. It […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Verbalization
A few weeks ago I listed seven method of creating neologisms, or neologizing. The word “neologize” was itself a neologism in the early part of the 19th century, and it […]