Around the world and across disciplines, researchers have turned their attention to covid-19, but we need to ensure this effort is a help rather than a hindrance, says Mike Clarke […]
Year: 2020
Richard Lehman’s covid-19 reviews—20 April 2020
In this weekly round-up, Richard Lehman looks at a personal selection of articles of relevance to clinicians dealing with covid-19 […]
Chaand Nagpaul: The disproportionate impact of covid-19 on ethnic minority healthcare workers
In February, The BMJ devoted an edition to the issue of race inequalities in medicine. At that time, no one could have foreseen that new race disparities would manifest themselves […]
The role of universal health coverage in overcoming the covid-19 pandemic
Amirhossein Takian, Mohsen Aarabi and Hajar Haghighi analyse covid-19’s effect on the global economy and what it means for the sustainable development agenda and universal health coverage […]
Gender equality should not be about competing vulnerabilities
Pascale Allotey and Michelle Remme discuss solutions and strategies to tackle gender equality […]
Covid-19: the game changer—for healthcare and society
The coronavirus disease (covid-19) was first identified in China,1,2 and declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March 2020.3 On that same evening, I was alongside 52,000 […]
Miriam Fine-Goulden: We can do this—I have faith in us
When I was 18, I went to Poland to visit the site of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka. Nothing could prepare me for the utter horror of […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Logarithmic exponents
There is widespread misunderstanding about the meaning of the mathematical idea of “exponential”. Here are some synonyms listed on a website called WordHippo: aggressive, epidemic, ascending, augmented, expanding, growing, mounting, […]
Covid-19: If we can’t protect our workers, we can’t protect our patients
At the beginning of March, Roberto Stella, a GP, from Busto Arsizio near Milan, became the first doctor to die from covid-19 in Italy. Only days earlier he had attended […]
Derek Alderson: To operate now or later—that is the surgical question
To support medical teams determine what is truly urgent, and what is not, I have spent the last ten days working with colleagues across the country to produce new guidance. […]