The UK continues to be at the forefront of covid-19 vaccine development and deployment. The ambitious vaccination programme forms the centrepiece of the UK “roadmap” detailing the path out of […]
Month: April 2021
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—30 April 2021
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Richard Smith: The cleansing power of the “perfect” death
If you’ve not seen “Blackbird,” a film that is now available on Amazon Prime, and plan to, then read no further. When I give talks on death I ask the […]
Using the NHS App as a covid-19 vaccine passport
The UK transport minister, Grant Shapps, announced on 28 April 2021 that the UK government plans to use the existing NHS App to provide proof of covid-19 vaccination status for […]
Mongolian pastoralists face covid-19 with traditional calm
Nomadic people represent an unusual challenge during pandemics. With herders comprising a large part of Mongolia’s population, Troy Sternberg looks at their experiences of covid-19 […]
Equity is key to ending this pandemic and preparing for the next
Prioritise the most vulnerable women, children, adolescents and health workers with covid-19 vaccines and essential health services, write Helen Clark and Anuradha Gupta. We all know covid-19 is a killer. […]
Enhancing UK action and promoting equity of access to global covid-19 vaccines
Richer nations have a vital role to play in ensuring equity of access to covid-19 vaccines around the world, say Maggie Rae and Helen Stokes-Lampard […]
Exhausted, grieving, and struggling not to lose hope—an emergency physician in Iran
Before the covid-19 pandemic, if I was asked whether I still would have chosen to become an emergency medicine specialist after 10 years of practice, I wouldn’t have felt even […]
Ignoring systemic racism hinders efforts to eliminate health inequalities in childhood
Failure to address all drivers of health inequalities in childhood, including structural racism, means failing another generation of children, say Ian Sinha and colleagues […]
Pandemic preprints—a duty of responsible stewardship
The covid-19 pandemic has led to increased interest in pre-prints among clinicians and the general public. But where does the balance lie between open sharing of research and minimizing the […]