Earlier this month, four decades of global efforts to develop a vaccine for HIV received a boost with encouraging news from a new clinical trial. It is early days yet, […]
Month: July 2018
Tips for new doctors: advice for trainees starting in FY1
Advice on how to ease the transition from being a student to a doctor […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Medical Japanese
A recent visit to Japan for the quadrennial meeting of IUPHAR, the International Union of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, prompted me to reflect on Japanese words that have entered the […]
Timothy Caulfield on Elle Macpherson, anti-Vaxx nonsense, and the opportunity to engage
Gossip that an alternative medicine loving supermodel is dating a fraudulent advocate of anti-vaccination nonsense matters […]
Richard Smith: The shambles of the NHS two week urgent appointment system
I have a lesion on my chest that could be a skin cancer, one of the slow growing non-lethal ones. I’ve had it for about two years and thought little […]
Richard Smith: I’ve got cancer
I couldn’t resist the dramatic title, although, as I’ll disclose below, a less dramatic one would more accurately reflect the content of this piece. Normally a title like “I’ve got […]
Nic Madge: Rise in knife crime is a public health emergency
Has the time come to consider further regulating all sales of long pointed knives and replacing them with rounded ends? […]
Adam Wright: True picture of NHS provider finances shows a tough year ahead
Latest data from NHS Improvement and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sheds new light on the realities providers faced during the last financial year—and provides a warning […]
Precedent pushing practice: Canadian court orders release of unpublished clinical trial data
Canada’s Federal Court has just rendered a milestone decision for clinical trial transparency. In the case of Peter Doshi v. Attorney General of Canada (yes, that’s one of us), Justice […]
Unreported clinical trial of the week: Neuroprotection with statin therapy for acute recovery in stroke (NCT01976936)
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 […]