The covid-19 pandemic has led the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council to remind clinicians that decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation—and by implication, other resuscitation procedures—should be based […]
Month: May 2020
Women’s safety must be a priority for IVF in the post lockdown era
The current outbreak of covid-19 has affected every aspect of our lives, particularly health and social care services. When the lockdown was announced, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) […]
Adeline Goss: When it’s dangerous to become a doctor
The physicians introduced into hospitals this spring and summer will have more asked of them than any newly graduated doctors in a generation. Let’s make sure we support them, says […]
Containing covid-19: crucial role of nurses
Xinjuan Wu, Na Guo, Na Zhou, and Shuyang Zhang tell the story of Chinese nurses in the area most affected by covid-19 Healthcare workers around the world are on the […]
How much is covid-19 spreading via asymptomatic versus symptomatic infections?
As we look at exit strategies from lockdown, these authors discuss how we can measure the spread of covid-19 and whether mathematical modelling helps […]
Covid-19: an opportunity or risk to addressing health inequalities?
The results of the covid-19 pandemic will likely only make health inequalities worse. But can this crisis be an opportunity for real change? […]
Transferable lessons for clinical leadership of a field hospital
The covid-19 pandemic has precipitated many changes in the NHS in order to deal with large numbers of people in need of treatment. Temporary Nightingale hospitals have been built in […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—1 May 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Rolling out mass hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis for covid-19 in India’s slums risks eroding public trust
Citizens of India are in a period of a six week nationwide lockdown. Physical distancing is largely limited to the rich and upper-middle-class in urban areas and sparsely populated villages, […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Change and decay
Last week I discussed the way in which the function ext can result in curves that go up or down with time, depending on whether x is greater or less […]