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Editors at large
Trish Groves: Reader responses to updated Cochrane reviews on Tamiflu and Relenza
It’s nearly two weeks since The BMJ published two updated Cochrane reviews on the benefits and harms in influenza of the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza). These research […]
The BMJ Today: Consent, discrimination, and the liver
What’s the matter with care.data? “It’s consent, stupid,” says Margaret McCartney in her latest No Holds Barred column. A leaflet is not sufficient to convey the complex issues around data […]
The BMJ Today: Respect for international doctors
A cluster of recent articles on bmj.com concern the educational performance of international medical graduates compared with UK graduates. The subject has been hotly debated since the 1980s when it […]
The BMJ Today: Further adventures of the polypill
Remember the polypill, the combination of several active ingredients in one tablet that promised to revolutionise the prevention of cardiovascular disease? It is a question we have often asked in […]
The BMJ Today: Why does female genital mutilation persist?
A news story by Clare Dyer and a rapid response from the director of public prosecutions in England and Wales, Alison Saunders, keep The BMJ’s spotlight on female genital mutilation. […]
The BMJ Today: GSK and paying doctors to speak on its behalf
On 17 December last year, UK pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline, made a bold pledge. From 2016, the company said, it will stop paying doctors to speak on its behalf or to […]
Richard Hurley: Why the food industry doesn’t find a sugar tax so sweet
A flurry of media attention followed England’s Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies’s recent admission that a sugar tax may have to be considered to try to reverse the overweight and […]
Tessa Richards: “All I ask is that you listen”
If healthcare was a patient, the diagnosis would be multimorbidity. There is a near terminal mix of fragmentation of services, failure to listen and respond to patients concerns, lack of […]
The BMJ Today: One way to tackle street drinking
The road in which I live connects a long, shady stretch of green space, with a few benches, and a rather grubby inner London high street that seems to have […]