David Cameron’s speech on NHS reform this week should have marked a substantial victory for doctors’ leaders. In recent months they have been even more outspoken than usual in their […]
Editors at large
Tony Delamothe – Falling sperm count saga: an update
Very few BMJ original research articles are cited by 1600 other publications, so it’s dispiriting to discover that the message of one of our citation classics may have been wrong. […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Barefoot runners, Western habits, and GP records – more from ACSM
Should we abandon running shoes? Running shoes are a relatively new phenomenon – primitive man did not wear shoes when hunting in the savannah and would look in wonder at […]
Domhnall MacAuley: From the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting (Denver)
The next big thing in physical activity research: sitting doing nothing. Steve Blair (University of South Carolina), a major player in the physical activity research world, suggests that the pattern […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Northern Ireland general practice
Last night Clare Gerada, chair of the RCGP, spoke in Northern Ireland about the Future of General Practice. This morning she meets our new Minister of Health. She described her […]
Edward Davies: Abstain from emotive rhetoric, please
When I read yesterday that “anti-abortion group” Life had been asked to join a government advisory panel on sexual health, my heart sank a bit. Not because they have been […]
Birte Twisselmann: Medical history in film and literature at the Royal Society of Medicine
The day’s event on 4 May 2011 was organised by the RSM’s History of Medicine Section, whose president, Bloomsbury general practitioner Claire Elliott, made the opening address: “Does the history […]
Juliet Dobson: How to pay for quality journalism in a digital world?
It is almost a year since News International decided to put Times Online and the Sunday Times websites behind a paywall. It was a watershed moment for journalism, and on […]
Annabel Ferriman: What a way to decide the future of the NHS
Suddenly Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s proposals to “reform” the NHS look safe. For more than nine months, since the publication of Liberating the NHS last July, doctors, nurses, think tanks, […]
David Payne: Competition and the NHS reforms
With the pause button still firmly pressed on the NHS reforms in England, one former Tory health secretary claims this week that the debate is losing touch with reality. Stephen […]