Practising clinicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers and patients rely on guidelines to help inform their practice, so it is vital that practice guidelines are trustworthy and quick. However, users, creators, […]
Month: December 2018
Providing healthcare in the camps of the Rohingya
The speed and scale with which over one million Rohingya refugees have crossed over the border to Cox’s Bazaar camp in Bangladesh has led to a critical emergency situation. (1) […]
Late reported clinical trial of the week: Cyclosporine or corticosteroids as an adjunct to plasma exchange in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (NCT00713193)
Nick DeVito and Ben Goldacre Today we describe a trial that reported late, in breach of the FDA Amendments Act 2007. This late reporting is especially notable, because the FDA themselves […]
Richard Smith: Amateurism still flourishing in scientific journals
In 1995 Stephen Lock, once editor of The BMJ and effectively the first person in Britain to be seriously concerned about research misconduct, called for an end of amateurism in […]
Global health disruptors: Migration
How can we ensure the health of migrants, asks Michaela Told […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Treating convulsions in 1618—unicorn’s horn
Last week I discussed how the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618 described the use of human skull for treating convulsions. This week I describe an even more unusual method of treatment, […]
Savia de Souza: Renaming a disease is only part of the solution
I have had rheumatoid arthritis for nearly a decade now. I used to think that it only affected hand joints and caused them to deform. That was until I got […]
Jeff Fernandez: The wider health needs of drug and alcohol patients are being neglected
There have been damaging changes in policy direction for alcohol and drug services since 2012 which have caused real problems on the frontline. One of the main issues has been […]
Richard Smith: Preventing a cholera epidemic among the Rohingya
An outbreak of cholera commonly occurs in humanitarian disasters as with war in Yemen, where some 2000 people have died of cholera, or after the earthquake in Haiti. Usually vaccination […]
Richard Smith: Visiting the camps of the Rohingya
I stand on a hill in the middle of the largest of the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh beside a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières and see the huts of […]