It is perhaps inaccurate to talk about how the covid-19 pandemic is affecting India, for that would pervert any commentary about covid-19 in a country the size of a continent. […]
Month: August 2020
John Middleton: Winter is coming—is the UK prepared?
This winter, the UK potentially faces a perfect storm of resurgent covid-19, winter flu, a large backlog of untreated long term conditions due to the pandemic, and excess cold-related mortality, […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Clowns
The most unusual entry from among the nearly 600 that were added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in March of this year was coulrophobia, defined in the dictionary as […]
Finding the best covid-19 vaccine should not be a race
…and certainly not a Cold War Space Race, argues Daniel Altmann […]
The recession should remind us that health and wealth are political choices
While health and longevity are matters of social justice and fairness, they are also cornerstones of economic productivity […]
Covid-19 in Latin America
The rapid spread of covid-19 across the world has taken the scientific and medical community by surprise. Brazil was the first country to confirm a case of covid-19 case in […]
Arabella L Simpkin: Promoting a culture of openness in healthcare
I was terrified. It was my first night shift with the prefix “Dr.” proudly adorned before my name, and though I’d feigned a confident start as I’d strapped the on-call […]
Shazad Amin: The Prevent policy has no place in modern healthcare
Prevent is part of the UK Government’s counter-terrorism strategy, and in 2015 it imposed a statutory duty for public sector employees to have “due regard to the need to prevent […]
The conception of the PRISMA-DTA explanation, elaboration, and checklist document
During the first months of my master’s [epidemiology and public health] programme, I joined the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy studies (PRISMA-DTA) group […]
When does unexpected weight loss warrant cancer investigation?
Researching whether there is an association between weight loss and cancer may seem like investigating the obvious. But with so many possible causes, which patient with weight loss warrants invasive cancer […]