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Month: October 2021
Unpacking vaccine “hesitancy:” the spectrum of vaccine acceptance
Media reports investigating the challenges that lead to relatively low covid-19 vaccine uptake rates in younger age groups highlight a need to consider “vaccine hesitancy” not as a single phenomenon, […]
Confronting future pandemics: what could a new treaty resolve beyond the IHR?
One critical question in the ongoing discussions for an international instrument to deal with future pandemics is to gain clarity on what the issues are that a treaty under Article […]
Solving systemic violence against healthcare workers in India
Violence against healthcare workers is a chronic and growing problem in India. Siddhesh Zadey and colleagues look at how it can be tackled […]
The £20 cut to Universal Credit is the wrong decision, taken at the worst possible time
On Wednesday 6 October—on the same day that the UK prime minister Boris Johnson delivers his leadership speech to the Conservative Party Conference—5.5 million households will see the biggest overnight […]
Richard Smith: What’s it like to have dementia?
Having watched our mother lose her memory over a dozen years to the point where she doesn’t know who we are, my brothers and I wonder what goes on in […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—1 October 2021
Ethics of paying people to enrol in trials Is it ethical to incentivise people to take part in research studies? Do inducements blunt their assessment of the risks involved and […]
Trying to fit in: why #DressLikeADoctor doesn’t work
After her OSCE in July, Eilidh Wilcockson, a third-year medical student at Newcastle University, received some surprising feedback: not about her clinical knowledge or examination technique, but about what she […]
For abortion providers like me, threats and vitriol are an everyday reality in Texas
The new abortion bill in Texas has made abortion care even more inaccessible and heightened the risk for providers, writes Blair Cushing […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Diction
Last week I discussed two of three related elements of speech— dialect and accent. I now turn to diction. The IndoEuropean root DEIK meant to show or utter. The Greek […]