My friend Nicholas Christakis recently tweeted: “Critique of evidence based medicine on grounds that it is exclusionary and ‘colonized’” providing a link to the critical article. He added an NB to […]
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Medicine is still a victim of war—we desperately need new ideas
What we are witnessing is war without restraint. But what do we do to stop it? […]
Martin McKee: Creating chaos and confusion from strength and stability—the general election 2017
The chaos that has resulted from the result of the general election has important implications for health, says Martin McKee […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Naming monoclonal antibodies
The term “monoclonal” is over 100 years old, having been first recorded, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, in a 1914 paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, […]
Kieran Walsh: Clinical decision support—being worried is nothing to worry about
Many years ago I worked with a doctor who would disappear for a few moments at important decision points in clinical care. Sometimes this was during ward rounds and sometimes […]
Gerd Gigerenzer: Can search engine data save lives from pancreatic cancer?
Gerd Gigerenzer discusses how search engines use big data analytics to “diagnose” your state of health […]
Richard Smith: Where general practice is flourishing
We hear a constant chorus that general practice is underfunded, understaffed, and on the point of collapse, so I couldn’t resist the temptation to visit a practice that is flourishing […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Can it really be true that 50% of research is unpublished?
Whatever the precise non-publication rate is, it is a serious waste of the roughly $180 billion annually invested in health and medical research globally […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The IDEAL shape of promulgation
Last week I suggested that passive diffusion and active dissemination of the outcomes of research could together be called “promulgation”. To promulgate is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as […]
Richard Smith: Disappointed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on health
Democracy, we are all told and mostly believe, is “the least bad form of government.” Sadly and ironically that belief is hardest to sustain during elections when we are deluged […]