Air bubbles within ice cores deep within the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are tiny time capsules. From this air we can measure the composition of atmospheric gases continuously from […]
Month: October 2019
David Oliver: A speech to be proud of?
A couple of weeks ago Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in England gave a speech at the annual NHS Providers’ Conference. Unexpectedly, he popped […]
Margaret McCartney: Cancer screening review diminishes informed choice
We should resist the push for financial incentives, increased screening uptake, reorganisation, and restructuring, says Margaret McCartney […]
What we don’t talk about when we talk about professionalism: Feedback
Positive feedback is essential to motivate trainees, reinforce what’s going well, and encourage repetition. But has the volume become overwhelming? […]
Anthony Harries: In the absence of a true test for latent TB we need shorter, safer preventive treatments
Treating latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is a key component of the World Health Organization’s End TB strategy, which aims to end the epidemic of TB by 2030. This neglected but […]
Holiday hunger: The government must remove the inequalities in children’s access to holiday clubs
Holiday clubs would help the three million children in the UK who are at risk of holiday hunger, say Margaret A Defeyter, Paul B Stretesky, and Michael A Long […]
Sarah Markham: Can virtual reality help patients with OCD?
The creative use of mobile and wearable health information and sensing technologies—also known as mHealth—may have the potential to reduce the cost of healthcare and improve wellbeing in numerous ways. […]
Ann Robinson’s journal review—23 October 2019
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Peter Brindley: Nature—still the best life support?
I recently returned from backpacking through Alaska and Northern British Columbia. My son and I had reconnected during seven days clambering through the mountains. We had been entirely sans internet […]
Jonathan Glass: The heart sink doctor
Much has been written about so called “heart sink” patients, but Jonathan Glass says what doctors need to avoid is becoming the heart sink doctor […]