Recent opinion pieces have reflected on the neglect of the principles of evidence-based medicine in the context of the covid-19 pandemic,1 particularly focussing on trial conduct, with opaque mid-trial changes […]
Month: June 2020
Carlo Ross: Covid-19 and medical students—the impact of doing nothing
Over the past few months, it’s been hard for final year medical students to decide what to do during a situation in constant flux, says Carlo Ross […]
Assuring research integrity during a pandemic
Compared to the SARS outbreak in 2003, the covid-19 pandemic has led to substantially more scientific publications during the first four months. Preprints have become the medium of choice. The […]
Covid-19: the virus is only six degrees of separation away from us all
For some healthcare workers covid-19 has crossed the boundary from their professional into their personal lives, affecting how they feel about their work, explains Sukhpreet Singh Dubb […]
Structural racism in society and the covid-19 “stress test”
Hot on the heels of The BMJ’s special edition on Racism in Medicine, the covid-19 pandemic has produced a “stress test” for everyone concerned about structural racism in healthcare. The […]
If we do not address structural racism, then more black and minority ethnic lives will be lost
Covid-19 brings into stark view how racial inequalities within the health sector have been damaging, detrimental, and deadly […]
Richard Smith: How can we achieve a healthy recovery from the pandemic?
I recently saw a cartoon that has uncomfortably embedded itself in my brain: it shows a relatively small tidal wave that is the pandemic, followed by a bigger tidal wave […]
Contact tracing for covid-19 in low- and middle-income countries
In the absence of an effective vaccine or treatment, the key measures to control the covid-19 pandemic are testing and isolating cases, and then tracing and quarantining potential contacts. But […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Retraction
The retraction yesterday of two publications, one in The Lancet and one in the New England Journal of Medicine, reflects a current major problem with research into the management of […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—5 June 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]