• Growth charts reflect a growth in children within India The growth charts committee of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) has recently published new growth charts for children aged […]
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The BMJ Today: Watch, read, listen, do
If you watch one thing today . . . See the two video clips embedded in the “Comptetent Novice” paper “A quick ward assessment of older patients by junior doctors,” and […]
The BMJ Today: Cancer drugs, BMJ awards, and challenges for the NHS
• Donald Light and Joel Lexchin write about the easy ride cancer drugs get in the approval process. They point to three weaknesses: trials on cancer drugs are more often […]
David Payne at WIRED Health 2015
9.20am: I’m in London at WIRED Health 2015, “exploring the future of healthcare.” Already I’ve bumped into a would-be investor and I’ve just had a “power shot” of grapefruit juice spiked with chili. […]
The BMJ Today: Elders, teens, and tobacco in the modern era
• Jonathan Gornall writes about the tobacco industry’s likely opposition to new UK plain cigarette packaging laws in the powerful feature, “Slaying the dragon: how the tobacco industry refuses to […]
The BMJ Today: What are doctors around the world up to?
The BMJ has reported a number of medical fraud cases in the US lately. An ophthalmologist in Florida who used to see 100 patients per day has been accused of making […]
General election 2015: The health and care debate live blog
The BMJ was live blogging from the Health and Care debate at the British Library. Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham, Shadow Heath Secretary, Norman Lamb, Minister of […]
The BMJ Today: What is happening in US medicine?
Even though I was far away from New York City, I will always remember the 11 September 2001, as I was in medical school taking an exam that day. An […]
Tessa Richards: Is your conference “Patients Included?”
The conference circuit is buzzing. If you are not physically caught up in the whirl there are plenty of colourful twitter feeds to follow—last week’s #EvidenceLive for example. Next week […]
The BMJ Today: Candy Crush as pain relief, and doctors as carers and scientists
• A news story reports on the intriguing case of a man who lost the use of his left thumb after playing the smartphone game Candy Crush all day for […]