Will the UK’s decision to offer an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine for under-30s, following safety signals, impact vaccine up-take, ask Pauline Paterson and Ed Pertwee The UK recommendation […]
Month: April 2021
Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—16 April 2021
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
Kent Buse: Johnson’s government of cuts and contempt
A lack of transparency and communication on UK research funding cuts, displays disregard towards researchers and the widescale impacts of these cuts, says Kent Buse One month ago, two open […]
Cam Donaldson: Covid-19 and the economic case for a national care service
The exposure of care home residents to covid-19 during the past year has led to calls for a system review, including, as an option, a National Care Service (NCS). Scotland […]
Chaand Nagpaul: The lived experience of many ethnic minority doctors is not an equality success story
The Sewell report’s depiction of the NHS belies the systematic disadvantage and discrimination that so many ethnic minority doctors have faced […]
Covid-19 vaccines: a game of power jabs
Vaccines have enabled us to reduce and eliminate infectious diseases, including eradicating smallpox and nearly eradicating polio. Due to an extraordinary global effort, numerous covid-19 vaccines have been created and […]
It’s time for the health community to back a Green New Deal
In 2009, the Lancet Commission on Climate Change and Health concluded that climate change is the biggest public health threat of the twenty-first century. Over a decade later, calls for […]
Laurence Woollard: The infected blood inquiry is exposing medical paternalism
“They say it affects homosexuals, Haitians and haemophiliacs, like there’s a disease which has targeted the letter H.” So says the main character, Richie, from the hard-hitting drama series, It’s […]
To tackle the backlog, we need to transform how we wait for surgery
Recently, NHS England and NHS Improvement published planning guidance for the year ahead, outlining six priorities for the NHS as it emerges from the pandemic. The guidance strikes a balance […]
“I felt I had no control”: how a spinal cord injury shaped the doctor I’ll become
Medical student Grace Spence Green describes what it was like to experience an injury that turned the hospital into a place of discomfort and dependence […]