Use of the Widal test is leading to misdiagnosis, say these authors Nepal has been facing a harsh second wave of covid-19 since April 2021. Hospitals have already been overwhelmed […]
Month: June 2021
(Black) fathers in medicine: walking the tightrope between parent and physician
Bismarck Odei considers the competing push and pull between parenthood and medicine, and how this dilemma has echoed down the generations in his family […]
Clinical neuroscience and long covid
As of the 8 June 2021, there have been over 170 million cases of covid-19 and 3.7 million deaths worldwide. In the UK, over 4.5 million cases have been reported […]
Sheila Bird: diagnostic tests must be more rigorously regulated
Study designs, regulation, and transparency of in-vitro diagnostic tests matter and need to be embedded in pandemic planning, argues Sheila M. Bird […]
G7 leaders made few concrete, strong, or deep health-related commitments at Carbis Bay
G7 responds to “If not us, who?” with “Not us.” So where are we now with the global health cooperation agenda, ask Kent Buse and Katri Bertram […]
UK aid cuts will put global health systems at risk
The United Kingdom is a major provider of foreign aid, and is the world’s second largest bilateral health aid donor after the United States. The UK is also a major […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Black swans in microbiology
Continuing my search for biomedical black swans, based on the words newly cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1970 to 2020, I now turn to terms relevant to […]
An open letter from Women in Global Health to the leaders of the G7
With the covid-19 pandemic only widening inequalities, it’s time for the G7 to lead with humility, vaccinate the world, and invest in the women who deliver health and social care, […]
Martin Marshall: Data sharing must be based on trust
NHS Digital’s General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) programme has received a great deal of attention and caused significant controversy over the past few weeks. After calling for […]
David Wrigley: Don’t call us resilient
Health and social care staff have held up a broken system for far too long, writes David Wrigley […]