Wayne Rooney’s ankle injury may have cost Manchester United a Champion’s League place and could still influence their premiership hopes. It is unlikely that Cesc Fabregas’s injury affected the result […]
Editors at large
Helen Jaques: Measuring the health of science journalism
Last week I attended an event on the state of science journalism called “Science in the media: rude or ailing health?” Rather than a discussion on how science is being […]
Domhnall MacAuley: A full Irish breakfast and a pint of Guinness
A full Irish breakfast and a pint of Guinness. The perfect Easter brunch. But, not on Good Friday. The pubs are closed in Ireland on two days of the year; […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Illness hidden behind steel doors?
Ever thought about prisoners? Not those unfortunates banged up in a far away jail; misguided young drug couriers, misunderstood plane spotters, or those whose foolish misdemeanours have been magnified through […]
Georg Röggla: Intensive care and emergency medicine in Brussels
More than 5000 participants from about 90 countries all around the world took part at the 30th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels, Belgium from March […]
Helen Jaques: New publishing models at the BMJ Editors’ seminar
This week at the BMJ Editors’ seminar I heard about two innovative new publishing models: Nature Communications from Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and PLoS Currents from Public Library of Science. Nature […]
Harvey Marcovitch on publication-to-knowledge time – far too long
Theresa Harding’s long and tedious journey through increasing disability to a diagnosis of a treatable condition is a very moving one. Many readers will be as concerned as the BMJ […]
Peter Lapsley on hospital gowns and dignity
Among all the media reports of the NHS being destroyed by target-setting and endless reorganisation, and of patients being put last – or nowhere at all – in NHS policy-making, […]
Domhnall MacAuley: goodbye health visiting
Baby clinic was always the happiest and busiest afternoon of the week. After routine medical checks, there was a chance to share the excitement of the new baby and build […]
Georg Röggla on a new and different perspective of dying
I have seen many people die in the nearly three decades I have worked as a clinician. I was, however, confronted with a totally different perspective of dying while attending […]