Remember when you first heard that you had got into medical school? That great feeling of the dream coming true? How the happiness coincided with the sudden realization you would […]
Month: September 2018
Rebecca Vinding and Hans Bisgaard: How we built vikings
Childhood growth is a key indicator for both health and disease. Both obesity and undernourishment are signs of possible underlying disease, dietary disruption, or eating disturbances, while normal growth suggests […]
Samir Dawlatly: UK life expectancy figures mask growing health problems
While the average life expectancy continues to rise in the UK, there are worrying trends within the statistics. I do not think it possible for life expectancy to keep rising […]
Unreported clinical trial of the week: Rociletinib (CO-1686) for patients with EFRG-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NCT02186301 & NCT02322281)
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 […]
Richard Smith: Ten years of working towards patients controlling their own health records
I first met Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, founder and chief executive of Patients Know Best, ten years ago and heard his idea that all patients should have access to and control of […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—3 September 2018
This week we introduce the next of our three new columnists who will be writing our weekly research reviews […]