The academic community should refuse to collaborate when industry demands control over trials […]
Year: 2018
Anya de Iongh: Prescribing should be #personalised, whether it’s social or pharmacological
All prescribing conversations should feel like a person centred conversation, says Anya de Iongh […]
Cecilia Trigg: More needs to be done to prevent food anaphylaxis deaths
Recent inquest reports into suspected food anaphylaxis deaths make harrowing reading. The recent cases were teenagers who lost their lives to a preventable cause of death. The incidence of food […]
Elvin Kedhi: Dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with STEMI—is longer treatment needed?
As a trainee I was always fascinated by the impact of a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). In a matter of minutes a […]
The words we use matter—why we shouldn’t use the term ”illegal migrant”
Talking about migrants and migration requires careful choice of words […]
Richard Smith: A professional writer observes death up close
Arthur Koestler’s Dialogue with Death is an unusual, even unique, book in that it’s the experience of a professional writer who expects at any moment to be shot. It provides […]
Helen Stallman: Why we need to stop using the term “talking therapy”
The term “talking therapy” misrepresents what psychotherapy involves. Despite being a term that is not used by clinicians, it is widely-used internationally in communications with consumers. The NHS in the UK, for example, provides […]
Chris R Brewin: NICE and the PTSD revolution
NICE’s new draft guideline for PTSD fails to mention how ICD-11 has profoundly shifted how we diagnose this disorder […]
Zackary Berger’s journal reviews—1 October 2018
Zackary Berger reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Emma Cartwright and Jess Rees: The Cochrane Colloquium—a patient perspective
Emma Cartwright and Jess Rees received the Rosamund Snow award to attend the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh The Cochrane Colloquium is a large international conference, which this year was held […]