The Bawa-Garba case shows how outdated medical culture is in a society that won’t face up to the crisis in healthcare […]
Year: 2018
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Teleoanalysis
A meta-analysis is an analysis of analyses. Specifically, it is an analysis of the combined results of several studies, typically randomised clinical trials. However, other forms of evidence can be […]
Jan Filochowski: Should hospitals return charitable donations from the Presidents’ Club?
Poor old Great Ormond Street Hospital! The hospital, along with several other hospitals and charities, recently found itself prominently highlighted in a rather tawdry debate about the events at the […]
Richard Smith: Doctors and patients heading in opposite directions
Doctors and patients are heading in opposite directions: patients increasingly have multiple conditions, while doctors are specialising not just in organ systems but in parts of organs. What are the […]
Muir Gray: We need to tackle the “fear of finding out”
In the midst of a blizzard of reports about the overuse of general practice it may seem inappropriate to highlight the problem of underuse, but many people are still presenting […]
Victor Adebowale: There is no excuse for homelessness in Britain in 2018
Homelessness is a neon sign that something is fundamentally wrong with health and housing policies […]
Amitava Banerjee: Institutional racism is still a major problem in the NHS
It is time to do better, says Amitava Banerjee […]
Tianjing Li: What’s not shared—building on the FDA’s transparency momentum
Recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, announced new steps that the agency is taking to enhance transparency of clinical trial information. The FDA is launching […]
Julian Sheather: Turkey attacks its medical profession
It doesn’t seem like much—hardly an offence. A national medical association calling attention to the public health consequences of armed conflict. Business as usual, surely? But not in Turkey. Not […]
Tessa Richards: Solidarity in a cold climate
Tromsø lies over 200 miles north of the Arctic circle and last week, after months of polar nights it celebrated its first glimpse of the sun; and hosted two international […]