Are there lessons in the life and work of French artist Henri Matisse that could help regulators navigate the brave new world of digital healthcare? How can the experience of […]
Editors at large
Zosia Kmietowicz: A charter for women who are pregnant in prison
It is 20 years since a TV documentary showed a British prisoner give birth while handcuffed to a prison guard. Anyone who remembers the images must be asking why a […]
Tessa Richards: “Burnout shops” are bad for health
Burnout is a pervasive problem. Its high prevalence among health professionals is well recognised. But the extent of its impact on the quality, safety, and cost of patient care needs more […]
Rebecca Coombes: Beware the medicalisation of female genital cutting
I met two remarkable women this week. Actually, I met many such females at the vast Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen—obstetricians, lawyers, midwives, and former presidents (including a possible future […]
Trish Groves and David Moher: How to get published
In the run up to Evidence Live 2016, we are running a series of blogs by the conference speakers discussing what they will be talking about at the conference. The […]
Georg Röggla: Health and migration
I attended a remarkable reception with a focus on health and migration at the UK embassy in Vienna last week. The ambassador Susan le Jeune d’Allegeershecque shared her personal experiences of when […]
The BMJ research editors: Why The BMJ rejected a “weekend effect” paper
Recently, perceived shortcomings of The BMJ peer review system have been extensively discussed on Twitter and elsewhere because we rejected a research paper by Rachel Meacock and colleagues examining the […]
WIRED Health 2016
Technology magazine Wired held its annual health conference in London on 29 April, with 21 speakers presenting “the future of the healthcare and medical industries.” Thomas Macaulay was there for The […]
Anne Gulland: Who wants to live forever?
Would you like to live to be 10,000? Or how about a more reasonable sounding 120? These were questions posed at an event organised by Intelligence Squared under the heading: […]
Georg Röggla: Choosing wisely in Germany
I attended the annual convention of the German Society of Internal Medicine DGIM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin) in Mannheim this week. The main focus of this congress is transferring […]