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 […]
Month: October 2018
Joe Biden, 47th vice-president of the US, calls for global cooperation to defeat cancer
Famously if you are giving a speech what you say is less important than how you say it, which in turn is less important than who you are. So a […]
Cassandra Cameron: The NHS must support more clinicians into senior trust leadership roles
Compared to other national healthcare systems, the English NHS has relatively fewer chief executives with a clinical background. While clinical expertise is not a prerequisite for success in the role, […]
Peter Brindley: Talk is cheap, but healthcare is definitely not
There seems to be no end to our healthcare demands, but there does appear to be a limit to how much tax we will pay, says Peter Brindley […]
Petra Boynton: Supporting healthcare workers to help patients cope with pregnancy loss
Anyone who’s had training on pregnancy loss will be familiar with the figures that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, and that every day in the UK 15 babies […]
Kate Lovett: Waiting times for mental health treatment costs jobs, marriages, and finances
Long waiting times are detrimental for patients and healthcare workers […]
Zackary Berger’s journal reviews—8 October 2018
Zackary Berger reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Licensing, authorization, and the Medicines Act 1968
As I discussed last week, Clinical Pharmacology Month, currently in progress, is a good occasion during which to reflect on the 50th anniversary of the Medicines Act 1968 and its […]
Jamie Kirkham: Mitigating the problem of outcome reporting bias
The poor reporting of clinical studies indicates a collective failure of authors, peer reviewers, and editors on a massive scale […]
Amar Alwitry: Improving clinical review of incidents and clinician to clinician learning
We are human and we err. As a clinician we will face clinical errors which cause a patient to come to harm. We pass that information and learning on to […]