As I mentioned last week, the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, and the Dublin Pharmacopoeia were eventually combined, in 1864, to form the British Pharmacopoeia (Pharmacopoeia Britannica), as recommended and […]
Year: 2018
Richard Smith: A case that illustrates why the NHS appointment system needs to move from the 18th to the 21st century
Today the Royal College of Physicians has concluded that the way the NHS runs outpatient appointments is stuck in the 18th century. Many of the appointments are not necessary, and […]
Peter C Gøtzsche: Cochrane—no longer a Collaboration
Peter C Gøtzsche discusses his expulsion from the Cochrane Collaboration […]
Let’s acknowledge the biggest killer of women (and men)
Mark Woodward, Lizzie Millett, Sanne Peters Men have heart disease at higher rates than women, at all ages, and across the world. However, heart disease is the biggest killer of […]
Kent Buse and Sarah Hawkes: Are health organisations leaders or laggards on gender equality?
Signs suggest that the tide is turning towards greater recognition of the importance of gender-equality in global health […]
Tessa Richards: China to set the bar high for new health technologies
How to reap the benefits of new technologies while keeping a tight rein on healthcare costs is a challenge all countries face, not least China. It spends a relatively modest […]
Unreported clinical trial of the week: prospective outcomes study of wall hernia repair with composite mesh (NCT02341430)
Nick DeVito, Ben Goldacre, Carl Heneghan 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 (EU) […]
Frank Gavin: Helping patients understand adverse drug reactions
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs), or side effects, are important to patients. This became very clear to me in the six years when I served as a public member of the […]
Clinical guidelines in China: tackling conflict of interests and engaging patients
Evidence based medicine is widely accepted across the world and is used to make sure that decisions about patient care are informed by current best evidence. [1] Clinical practice guidelines, […]
Production of trustworthy real world data and evidence in China
One of China’s ambitions is to promote the health of the whole nation. One significant challenge is a dearth of locally applicable, trustworthy clinical research evidence. Producing such evidence has […]