The public need to be better informed about death, but doctors need to be prepared too, says Salil Patel […]
Month: March 2019
Unreported clinical trial of the week: Study of colorectal cancer patients with either regorafenib or standard of care after adjuvant FOLFOX (NCT02425683)
Louisa Conlon, 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. […]
A cornerstone of modern medicine is crumbling; the government’s plan to tackle AMR depends on research
Resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics is one of the biggest global threats we face. For so long the cornerstone of modern medicine, antibiotics are now growing increasingly ineffective. Antimicrobial resistance […]
Specialist cancer survivorship: the changing face of palliative care?
By 2020 50% of the UK population will have been diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime. At the same time, cancer patients are living longer—over 50% of […]
Christopher Martyn’s research reviews—11 March 2019
Christopher Martyn reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Lucinda Hiam and Martin McKee: The deepening health crisis in the UK requires society wide, political intervention
These are not just numbers, these are lives […]
Navjoyt Ladher: On International Women’s Day, let’s make the invisible visible
It’s International Women’s Day and a lot has happened since this time last year when Theo Bloom and I wrote about sexism in clinical research and scholarly publishing. From the […]
Gretchen Goldman: Trump pulls a page from industry’s disinformation playbook
By denying science, the Trump administration is putting lives at risk, says Gretchen Goldman […]
Lidia Luna Puerta: Patients are still not seen as potential partners in Singapore
“Trust your doctor?” I found this question on a flyer posted in the elevator in a hospital in Singapore and reflected that it might contain a message about the current […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Lupus minimus and esthiomene
Latin adjectives mostly form regular comparatives and superlatives: for example, longus, longior, longissimus (long, longer, longest), a self-descriptive sequence; or sapiens, sapientior, sapientissimus (wise, wiser, wisest). But there are exceptions. […]