An emergency law would protect healthcare professionals from inappropriate legal challenge when treating covid-19 patients in good faith […]
Month: January 2021
Alex Nowbar’s journal review—15 January 2021
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Medical words of the 1970s
During the final weeks of 2020 I explored biomedical words that were labelled in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as having first appeared in print in the years from 1970 […]
Nikki Nabavi: Too girly to be a doctor?
“Professionalism” is a word that is thrown around a lot in medical education, but what does it really mean? Defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as “the combination of all the […]
Covid-19 has added strain on overseas doctors unable to see their families
BAPIO, The BMA, and other medical organisations and colleges are calling for a change to visa rules for NHS doctors The NHS has a long history of relying heavily on […]
Andrew Hayward: We have entered a dangerous new phase of the pandemic
On the last day of 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) received the first reports of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. [1] Since then the causative […]
Supporting patients in peer review can improve the relevance of research
Engaging patients, caregivers, and patient advocates in scientific pre-publication peer review is a relatively new approach for many journals and institutions. Patient inclusion in peer review is increasing as it […]
People with an intellectual disability should be prioritised for vaccination
Given the disproportionately negative impact of covid-19 on people with an intellectual disability, they should be prioritised in the UK’s vaccination programme, say Keri-Michèle Lodge, Christian Brown, and Sheila Hollins […]
“Covid isolation discs”: how music can help our wellbeing
At the time of writing, covid lockdowns are tightening, and deaths are climbing. It is serious stuff as I know from working in ICU. We’re ten months in, and have […]
Bing Jones: Covid thrives on half truths and lies
The UK government’s half truths are dangerous, but the greater threat is when scientific and medical professionals tolerate them, says Bing Jones […]