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The BMJ Today: Will the mitochondrial horse fall at the last hurdle?
Suddenly last week, the Church of England and the Catholic Church weighed into the debate about mitochondrial replacement—the use of the mitochondria from a healthy woman to replace the faulty […]
The BMJ Today: Are public health campaigns a waste of money?
As pressure to squeeze costs rises across the whole NHS, the increasing prominence of government funded public health campaigns is coming under greater scrutiny. Chris Mahoney has taken a look at […]
The BMJ Today: How much do you know about mind altering drugs?
Martin Mckee, a prominent public health academic and a prolific writer for The BMJ, is featured this week in the always entertaining BMJ Confidential. As professor of European public health at […]
The BMJ Today: We may need more GPs, but where will they come from?
Integrating health and social care is Labour’s main objective for the NHS, Gareth Iacobbuci reports in The BMJ today. Labour has also reiterated its plan to train and hire more […]
The BMJ Today: Learning new lessons from the young
In a week when the first successful organ donation from a newborn was carried out in the UK, The BMJ seems to also be learning new lessons from the youngest […]
The BMJ Today: Managing multimorbidity in a monomorbid world
The good news is that life expectancy is increasing around the world and we are all living longer. The less good news is that as we get older, we are […]
The BMJ Today: Trust me, I’m a patient
Michel Foucault had much to say—mostly critical—about medicine. But the rarity of any mention of his name in medical journals tells me that medicine has had far less to say […]
The BMJ Today: Hinchingbrooke, Circle, and tabloid smears
The recent news that England’s first privately run NHS hospital was to be placed into “special measures” by healthcare regulator the Care Quality Commission has sparked a fierce and rather […]
The BMJ Today: Should I prescribe anti-virals to prevent flu for nursing home patients?
A news story last week reported scepticism about whether GPs should prescribe anti-viral neuraminidase inhibitors osteltamivir and zanamivir to prevent flu in nursing home patients. Yesterday afternoon, another news story said that […]