On 9 September The BMJ reported leaked plans, called “Operation Moonshot,” to regularly screen households, cities, and then the entire UK population for SARS-CoV-2, at a reported cost of over […]
Year: 2020
Modelling the pandemic—time is of the essence
Is the right kind of modelling guiding time-sensitive policy decisions on covid-19? […]
Tinaye Mapako: Medical students should not publish and perish
The pressure to publish during medical school encourages bad science, writes Tinaye Mapako, and fails to nurture research skills among students […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Nobel prizes in pharmacology—James Black
The biomedical words whose earliest recorded written instances are dated 1974 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) are listed in Table 1; as before, pharmacological words contribute the single largest […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal review—6 November 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
We all have a right to dignity in public health emergencies
Living through a public health emergency while avoiding breaches of human rights, requires a government to protect individuals regardless of their personal characteristics. Yet, this has not been the case […]
Billy Boland: How has New Zealand been so successful in managing covid-19?
Jacinda Ardern won the New Zealand elections by a “historic landslide.” The result in part has been credited to the success of her management of coronavirus in the country. The […]
Implications of the covid-19 pandemic on chronic care: global perspectives from people with type 1 diabetes
An international group of patient advocates living with type 1 diabetes share their perspectives about the impact of the pandemic on their countries, communities and personal health. […]
We feel we now have the building blocks required to deliver a mass vaccination programme, and to do this equitably
Earlier on this year during the height of the pandemic, many GP practices indicated that they would struggle to deliver this year’s flu vaccination programme if covid restrictions were to […]
Sarah Markham: A wellbeing and coping resource to help people during covid-19
Covid-19 is not just a public health crisis, it is also personal. We are all feeling the pressure. The ongoing uncertainties are manifold—how much worse the second wave of the […]