Lovastatin is one of the words whose earliest citations in the Oxford English Dictionary are from 1986 (Table 1). Table 1. Biomedical words (n=17) in the OED for which the […]
Month: March 2021
Build back better? This budget was about business as usual…
On Wednesday 3rd March, Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave his second budget. From a health and social care perspective, Sunak’s two budgets as chancellor could not have […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—5 March 2021
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
School closures have had a huge impact on children’s futures
As schools across Europe are starting to reopen, these authors consider the longer term impact that schools closures have had on children’s wellbeing. […]
Understanding the spectrum of vaccine efficacy measures
Phase III covid-19 vaccine efficacy trials have returned encouraging results, exceeding the 50% efficacy threshold specified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Multiple […]
Covid-19 in Brazil: the government has failed to prevent the spread of the virus
Under the leadership of president Jair Bolsonaro, the federal government in Brazil has failed to implement a systematic plan to prevent the spread covid-19. Instead, under the pretext of shortening […]
Restoring our NHS: abolishing marketised commissioning is a good start but not enough
The government’s long parried acknowledgement of the unviability of many years of NHS reforms will be welcomed by almost all its healthcare staff. But this proposed reform of reforms overlooks […]
Andy Cowper: The Budget? Fudge it
“If you can’t budge it, fudge it” could well end up as the motto of Boris Johnson’s government, particularly when it comes to health and social care. The Budget announced […]
Mental health beds are full, leaving patients without treatment and clinicians with difficult choices
There has been growing concern throughout the last year in the NHS mental health sector about services becoming overstretched during the pandemic. The Royal College of Psychiatrists asked psychiatrists about […]
Covid-19: We must tackle obesity and health inequalities in order to build back better
The UK’s death rate from covid-19 is the fifth highest globally, largely due to the high number of people living with obesity and overweight. A new report from World Obesity […]