Last week I was pleased to be appointed as the chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC). As its name implies, the Alliance comprises health organisations, including […]
Month: October 2019
The Withdrawal Agreement Bill and “Do No Harm” to health
Brexit, in any form, poses a threat to health in the United Kingdom. A series of peer reviewed studies evaluate a range of post-Brexit scenarios, from minimal divergence from the […]
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies: An idea that’s failed to deliver
The overwhelmed, under-resourced, and impersonal IAPT model has not lived up to its promise, says Kamal Sidhu […]
Setting up a charity for an “orphan” cancer
Emma Kinloch and Robert Metcalf describe how they collaborated to set up a new charity to promote partnership in research and drive better care and support for patients with a […]
Greta McLachlan: A textbook example of sexism in medical education
Sexualised images of women in surgical textbooks send a dangerous message, says Greta McLachlan […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Explaining drug shortages
As I reported last week, drug shortages, recently in the news, are not new at all. They have been with us for many years, although they have certainly got worse […]
Katie Knight: “Diva Doctors” and the problem with gendered language in medicine
Mariah Carey demanding two peoples’ assistance to be lowered safely onto a sofa. J-Lo refusing to use any toilet seat other than the one that was custom-made for her famous […]
Alex Nowbar’s weekly review—17 October 2019
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Anna Goshua: Our patients need us to be political
It is not only impossible but irresponsible to separate medicine from politics, argues Anna Goshua […]
Diverging views on eczema treatments—promoting shared understanding between doctors and patients
Recent years have seen increasingly polarised and acrimonious debate about the role of topical corticosteroids in the treatment of eczema. On one side are patients and parents who decline a […]