Two years ago, GP Michael Frank Harris discovered a right inguinal swelling while looking in his bathroom mirror. He writes about what happened next in the return of our Patient’s […]
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The BMJ Today: Is EBM broken? Then how about a nice cuppa
Is evidence based medicine broken? That’s the question that Greenhalgh et al are asking in this Analysis article. From inside The BMJ, with our attempts to shed light on unpublished […]
The BMJ Today: The rising tide of obesity
Obesity rates are rising worldwide. According to the CDC, in the US, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity over the past 20 years. A similar phenomenon has been […]
The BMJ Today: The World Cup—a win for the alcohol industry?
Today the world’s attention will be focused on the vibrant city of Sao Paulo in Brazil, where the host nation will kick off one of the biggest sporting events in […]
The BMJ Today: On with the patient revolution
Can partnership with patients be improved to the benefit of healthcare? We think so, and today we launch a strategy to help make it happen. It’s a delivery on a […]
The BMJ Today: Lifestyle counselling and screening—great expectations and false hopes
The underlying concept of screening is that an early detection of risk factors or disease is beneficial for the clinical or public health outcome. Patients, physicians, and public health authorities […]
The BMJ Today: Dying to talk about it—care and conversations near the end of life
Why do we find it so difficult to talk about dying? A question that palliative care specialists, such as Scott Murray and Kirsty Boyd, have been asking ever more urgently as populations […]
The BMJ Today: The dangers of anal sex, ensuring service redesign is evidence based, and the EMA taken to task over data disclosure
There are some topics that the British just don’t like to talk about, and bottoms, bowel habits, and anal sex fall firmly into that category—even when the conversation is with […]
The BMJ Today: Sick notes for “World Cup fever” and Obama pushes health benefits of carbon cuts
With the 2014 World Cup in Brazil fast approaching, hundreds of workers in China have been struck down with a serious bout of football fever. As Jane Parry reports, an […]
The BMJ Today: Cozy conversations—coffee breaks and integrated care
If, like me, you have struggled with defining “integrated care,” then Richard Vize’s Feature on the subject is definitely worth a read, if only to be reassured that it is, as […]