Many human rights and health gains have been made in Afghanistan over the past two decades. The international community must ensure that these are not reversed under Taliban rule, says […]
Month: August 2021
Mary McCarthy: The value of generalists
In 2019, the European Union of general practitioners/family doctors issued a statement entitled “The Value of GPs.” Drawing on evidence from published papers, it pointed out that family doctors were […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Pharmacographic
As I mentioned last week, when discussing the medical entries in Crooke’s 1903 edition of Yule and Burnell’s 1886 compilation Hobson–Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and […]
People’s Covid Inquiry: impact of covid on frontline staff and key workers
Michael Mansfield QC began the fifth session of the People’s Covid Inquiry by pointing out that the Archbishop of Canterbury had now added his voice to the many organisations and […]
People’s Covid Inquiry: inequalities and discrimination
“We all face the same storm but we are not all in the same boat” – Sonia Adesara The session was introduced by Sonia Adesara, NHS doctor, who pointed out […]
Food poverty set to worsen as September’s Universal Credit cliff edge approaches
Food banks are trying to prepare for what looks set to be a busy and difficult winter, says Sabine Goodwin […]
FDA approval for Pfizer covid-19 vaccine is essential and welcomed, but will it help vaccine hesitancy?
We must have realistic expectations of how much influence FDA approval will have on vaccine hesitant populations, says Peter Hotez […]
Significant proportions of people admitted to hospital, or dying from covid-19 in England are vaccinated—this doesn’t mean the vaccines don’t work
More vaccinated people are dying of the delta variant of covid than unvaccinated people, according to a recent report from Public Health England. The report shows that 489 of 742 […]
Academics and social media hostility: should we give up or do more?
It’s common to see academics dropping off social media to escape abuse. It starts with a tweet or media comment on their field of study. Someone takes exception to their […]
Does the FDA think these data justify the first full approval of a covid-19 vaccine?
The FDA should demand adequate, controlled studies with long term follow up, and make data publicly available, before granting full approval to covid-19 vaccines, says Peter Doshi […]