Doctors’ acts of kindness and compassionate care shaped my experience of bereavement, says Maria Kristiansen […]
Month: September 2018
Zackary Berger’s journal reviews—17 September 2018
Zackary Berger reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Trish Greenhalgh: The Cochrane Collaboration—what crisis?
Maintaining—and funding—the ‘view from nowhere’ requires delicate navigation of tricky political spaces and sometimes accepting hard-won compromises […]
Ray Moynihan: Let’s stop the burning and the bleeding at Cochrane—there’s too much at stake
To see the future of Cochrane threatened foreshadows a disaster for all of us […]
Richard Smith: What to do with the £20 billion promised to the NHS?
Under great political pressure and caught up in the razzmatazz surrounding the NHS’s 70th birthday, the government has promised another £20 billion to the NHS. What should be done with […]
Helen Macdonald: Should clinicians spend more time thinking about guidelines than evidence?
Old evidence based medicine (EBM) is dead, and clinicians need to get to grips with guidelines as the power tools of EBM. Digitially structured data could improve guidelines. And, with […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Liquorice and glycyrrhetinic acid
As I described two weeks ago, phenylbutazone was the first marketed compound to be later classified as a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. However, the first drug to be so described seems […]
Patient and partner as educators and researchers
When David was diagnosed with prostate cancer and later staged, we did as academics would do for any other study—we researched prostate cancer and its treatments as if it were […]
Unreported clinical trial of the week: Triamcinolone acetonide injection vs oral prednisolone for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis flare ups (2007-006729-28)
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. European Union […]
Companionship and conversation—bringing pedagogy to medical school
Medical schools must demonstrate that they care about their students as people and as the future of the medical profession […]