Caitjan Gainty and Grazia De Michele explore modern medicine’s complicity in creating uncertainty and its unwillingness, once created, to address it […]
Month: June 2019
The healthcare community needs to champion healthy and sustainable urban living spaces
We need to look beyond disease and individual sector silos and take into account the potential of the social and built environment to both prevent disease, and also contribute to […]
Souzi Makri: Patient expertise in medical innovation
Patient involvement in the research and development of new medical products is essential to perpetuating innovation and best outcomes in healthcare, says Souzi Makri. […]
Dominique Vervoort: The visa conundrum in global health
Visa restrictions are preventing people from low and middle income countries from engaging in global health policy and research, says Dominique Vervoort […]
Zosia Kmietowicz: Young people at conferences—not including them is unethical
A lasting memory from the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver in early June was the abundance of young people. Katja Iversen, CEO of the gender equality and female health organisation, […]
David Zigmond: General practice is disintegrating due to its serial reforms
Why is it so difficult to get continuity of care, or even an appointment, with your GP? And why is the GP workforce now so unhappy and depleted? […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Biomarkers for predicting adverse drug reactions
The early hopes of those who have promoted pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics as tools for determining the therapeutic use of medications in the individual patient were that gene variants (polymorphisms) would […]
Katie Knight: Mind the generation gap
Generational representation should be seen as another important aspect of diversity, says Katie Knight […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—20 June 2019
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Ian Hamilton: The gaps in our understanding of cannabis dependence
Admitting where our knowledge of cannabis is limited is as important as acknowledging what strong research evidence can make us certain of, says Ian Hamilton […]