The Horn of Africa, a region often synonymous with conflict and political uncertainty hosts Somaliland, a relatively peaceful breakaway costal region that declared its secession from Somalia in May 1991. […]
Year: 2018
Chris Bulstrode: Now that the dust has settled—Ebola three years on
The developed world only woke up to the fact that there was a problem, when the first cases of Ebola arrived in the USA and Europe. Until then, the Ebola […]
Miriam Fine-Goulden: Adults are just big children—lessons from paediatric medicine
One of the earliest adages drummed into trainees in paediatrics is the advice and warning: “children are not small adults.” The implication is that we cannot simply scale down what […]
Richard Smith: The hypocrisy of medical journals over transparency
Medical journals generally favour transparency, but we’ve recently discovered that when there’s a trade-off between transparency and their financial interest they opt for the money. The International Committee of Medical […]
Corinna Hawkes: Reducing sugar—major supermarkets should start competing on health
Going to my local supermarket recently it struck me just how far we are from helping people eat well. A Krispy Kreme donut stand immediately greeted me and baskets of […]
Farrah Kashfipour: The waiting room art gallery
We collected hundreds of drawings—snapshots of an often overlooked corner of the world through the eyes of sick children […]
Kieran Walsh: How will we learn in the future?
I crashed a plane three times today. The first time I crashed into a tree, the second time into a river, and the third time into a bridge. But it […]
Derek Yach: Building a Foundation to accelerate an end to smoking
The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, Inc. (the “Foundation”) was established to accelerate an end to smoking. The rationale for the Foundation and initial thinking on its activities have previously […]
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley: Why negative trials are usually positive
There are many benefits to patients from negative trial results […]
Harrison Carter: Asking medical students to volunteer in A&E paints a woeful picture of the NHS
Medical students have similar asks to their senior colleagues: to have adequate time and resources to look after patients in the way they deserve […]