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Columnists
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . New medical words in the OED, June 2021
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is updated every three months (“on a quarterly basis” as they put it—they mean “quarterly”). The latest list of updates and additions, published in June […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The CAT that’s a black swan
I have been looking for biomedical black swans, unexpected findings discovered by acute observation, among discoveries marked by the inclusion of relevant terms noted in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). […]
Julian Sheather: Post Growth—why health is central to a sustainable economy
In his fascinating new book Post Growth, Tim Jackson, director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, asks a disarmingly straightforward question: how are we to live well […]
“Povid:” predictions for a post-corona world
POVID, or a “post-covid” world may still seem like a distant dream. Peter Brindley and Matt Morgan imagine what life might be like as we learn to live with covid […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Black swans in biochemistry
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 […]
Julian Sheather: Time to address the climate emergency in the medical curriculum
I logged on to a fascinating webinar recently—medical education and climate change at the Royal Society of Medicine. As the Lancet’s 2020 Countdown on health and climate change put beyond […]
Chris Ham: The government’s response to the NHS backlog has fallen short
The government should stop sleepwalking into the future and provide the NHS with sustained increases in funding to meet unprecedented demand for care The NHS has rightly been praised for […]
Andy Cowper: Data not dates, and all that
On Monday 14 June, the government announced a four week delay to ending covid-19 restrictions in England as had been planned from the 21 June. The announcement came after extensive […]
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 […]