In 2011, I posted an article in The BMJ “Will we follow Easter Islanders into extinction?” It was a deeply pessimistic piece, and now I need to correct it with […]
Year: 2020
Climate change and healthcare: we must set the example by facing our gray rhinos
“Gray Rhinos?” readers may wonder. “I thought they only write about human beings in the The BMJ.” We can explain. In 1697, a group of Dutch explorers led by William […]
Jennifer Darlow: Parking our NHS heroes
With NHS staff looking set to lose free parking, Jennifer Darlow argues that the reintroduction of charges signifies how healthcare workers are valued by the government […]
Urgent action is needed to reduce widening inequalities in childhood obesity
A recent Public Health England (PHE) report on childhood obesity trends in England up to the 2018-2019 academic year makes for uncomfortable reading. [1] The report draws on data from […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Choosing treatments for covid-19
Since SARS-CoV-2 started causing covid-19 many different treatments have been studied, with varying degrees of success, mostly none. An incomplete list of pharmacological interventions that have been registered in clinical […]
Are we employing the most efficient learning tools to help today’s clinicians and organisations combat covid-19?
No doubt in the future there will be an intensive review of what happened and what we learned from the covid-19 pandemic, but what about right now? Are we employing, […]
We must rapidly learn lessons from Leicester’s local lockdown to prevent further outbreaks
The residents of Leicester are devastated that their city has become the first city in England to be put under a strict local lockdown. It was imposed due to the […]
Patients’ experiences of “longcovid” are missing from the NHS narrative
Patients and carers must be involved in any initiatives to explore the long term impacts of covid-19 […]
Young people with cancer are helping one another through the covid-19 pandemic
How a pan-European cancer patient organisation is tackling a funding shortage while helping the wider community […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—10 July 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]