Over 100,000 people a year have an episode of sepsis at a cost of around 35,000 lives, more than bowel and breast cancer combined. Sepsis is the third highest cause […]
Guest writers
Iris van der Heide: We need policies to target integrated care for people with multimorbidities in Europe
The ICARE4EU project wants to improve the care of people suffering from multiple chronic conditions. It will describe, analyze, and identify innovative integrated care programmes for people with multimorbidity in […]
Natika H Halil on providing emergency contraception to under 16s
Recently the UK’s press went into overdrive reporting on the recent change in emergency contraceptive pill ellaOne’s product licence—now available to buy over the counter for women of “all reproductive […]
Anne Gulland: Mental health problems—a gender divide
Feckless, hysterical, neurotic, sluttish: these are just some of the adjectives used to describe female patients suffering from psychological illness in the book Good General Practice, an investigation into general […]
Athene Donald: Learning lessons from Tim Hunt
Many years after his Nobel Prize winning discoveries in cell cycle regulation, Tim Hunt made some inappropriate and indefensible comments. It seems like the whole world wants to discuss those […]
Sioned Gwyn on sexism and women in medicine
Sir Tim Hunt, British biochemist and Nobel Laureate, had until recently enjoyed relative anonymity outside of scientific fields. Recently, at an international conference of science journalists in Seoul, he was […]
Karsten Juhl Jørgensen: Why do five recent reports on breast screening reach conflicting conclusions?
Since 2012, five collaborative efforts to quantify the benefits and harms of breast screening have been published. These are the UK Independent Review, the EUROSCREEN Working Group series (both 2012), […]
Neel Sharma: We need to improve feedback to medical students
The other day I made a point of observing the number of people walking whilst using their mobile phones. I am sure we have all made a similar observation of […]
John Moxham: Smoking still kills
Smoking still kills. Today it will kill 200 people. [1] People will die from heart attacks, from cancers, from respiratory illnesses, and many other conditions. But smoking doesn’t just kill. […]
Jean Riley: A carer’s perspective on personal health budgets
I am Jean Riley, the mother of a beautiful 26 year old daughter who has profound and complex needs. When we adopted our daughter from an orphanage in Romania, we […]