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 […]
Year: 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 […]
James S Thambyrajah: Providing prison healthcare is a unique experience
As a GP who works in prison healthcare, I was saddened and shocked to hear what occurred at HMP Birmingham recently. The government had to take over control from a […]
Danny Keenan and Kieran Mullan: Making quality improvement easier
If we want clinical leaders to act on data for quality improvement, we need to make easy access a priority […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Non-drugs
As I discussed last week, definitions should preferably not include negations. Some terms that denote drug classes break this rule. Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs), for example, form a […]
Sarah Markham: Independent review of the mental health act—including patients at the heart of the review
It is now almost a year since the prime minister Theresa May announced an independent review of mental health legislation and practice to tackle the issue of mental health detention. […]