• In her third blog so far, Lyndal Trevena reflects on the second day of the ISDMISEHC 2015 conference in Sydney. Highlights included Professor Alex Barratt’s keynote address on overdiagnosis, in which […]
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The BMJ Today: Patient data, sweetened drinks, and fruit juice
• Patient data from the clinical trials of statins In July 2014, an expert panel convened by The BMJ called for anonymised individual patient data from the clinical trials of statins […]
The BMJ Today: Naming, shaming, and homeopathy wars
• Homeopathy wars The Head to Head article “Should doctors recommend homeopathy?” has generated a heated online debate with 48 responses so far. More than 5000 people have responded to […]
The BMJ Today: #ImInWorkJeremy
• NHS news—This weekend social media has been awash with NHS health workers proudly tweeting their secretary of state for health, Jeremy Hunt, with photos and declarations of their commitment to […]
The BMJ Today: Homeopathy, sexual health, and saying sorry
• Homeopathy: patients like it Our rapid response boards have been ablaze this week since we published a Head to Head debate on homeopathy. Many of you have rallied to […]
The BMJ Today: A new era of drug and device regulation, homeopathy, and avoiding death in hospital
• Watch this space Will future historians mark 2015 or 2016 as the beginning of a new era of drug and device regulation? Proposed legislation in the United States, popular […]
The BMJ Today: The paperless NHS
• Finally, the NHS goes digital. Or does it? There have been many predictions of the death of paper in the NHS, but are they exaggerated? The NHS is in fact […]
The BMJ Today: Hiking the price of fizz
• Getting busy with the fizzy The BMA is the latest voice to call for a 20% tax on sugary drinks in the UK. The tax, if introduced, could reduce […]
The BMJ Today: Cleaning up corruption in medicine
• Can Gurinder Singh Grewal, the new president of the Punjab Medical Council, clean up medicine in Punjab? He is being praised for his anticorruption stance by the media, and his […]
The BMJ Today: The safety of SSRIs during pregnancy, controversial trade deals, and bow legs and knock knees
• Specific SSRIs and birth defects The association between maternal use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), during pregnancy and birth defects has been the topic of much discussion […]