We now know the prescription for sporting success. The pharmacopeia outlined last week in the letter from Victor Conte revealed by British sprinter Dwain Chambers, is staggering but unsurprising. Drug use is […]
Editors at large
Deborah Cohen attends the Periodical Publishers Association Awards
Ever thought the BMJ would be competing in the same publishing awards as Nuts magazine? To be fair, some of you probably did – not least because of the extensive […]
David Payne: The demise of the email
Email and mobile phones are certainly the bane of most people’s lives, but the generation of students who have never known life without the internet seem to be managing fine […]
David Payne: Should we trust what scientists say about food?
If you open your newspaper in the next few weeks to read a feature entitled “Ten things you should ask a scientist,” chances are the idea came from a debate […]
Tony Delamothe at TED 2008
The TED conference runs for three days each February in Monterey, California. The acronym stands for technology, entertainment, and design. […]
Tessa Richards at the Global Forum for Health Research, Beijing 29 Oct-2 Nov
” I believe that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP, but by the condition of its worst off. ” Zygmunt Bauman Equitable access to health […]
Tessa Richards at the European Health Forum Gastein, 3-6 October
By 0900 on the 3 Oct the hills of the picturesque Gastein valley in Austria were alive with the sound of some 600 politicians, policy makers, academics, industry leaders, and […]
Fiona Godlee: Recent advances in clinical medicine, public health, and health policy. Royal College of Physicians and London School of Economics. Athens 20-22 September
Back in Athens. Much cooler than a month ago and the fires on the Peleponese are out. This meeting, arranged by Ian Gilmore and George Kitas of the Royal College […]
Trish Groves in Edinburgh: Towards a smoke free society
Monday 10 September 2007 I walked into Edinburgh’s impressive international conference centre just as a couple of minibuses pulled up outside, spilling a gaggle of protesters armed with cigarettes, Scottish […]
Tessa Richards at the World Demographic Association’s 3rd “World Ageing and Generations Congress,” September 6-9
“The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball the further I am rolled the more I gain” Susan […]