Each war revives the clash between the safety of a country’s own citizens and that of its soldiers. The recent Operation Protective Edge, taken by Israel with the objective […]
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Paul Teed: Is medical opinion shifting towards support for an assisted dying law?
Over the weekend, the Times published findings from a new survey conducted by Medix, which asked 600 doctors various questions on assisted dying, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. The coverage contrasted […]
Rachael Addicott and Kieran Walshe: How do CQC hospital inspections measure up?
Over the past few years, we have seen several high profile failures of care in NHS acute hospitals in England, leading many in the system to question the ability of […]
Karen Sumpter: Can MRI help make inaccurate prostate cancer diagnosis a thing of the past?
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men; in the UK, it kills over 10 000 men every year, and currently there are over a quarter of a million […]
Mayank Singh: The euthanasia debate in India
The case of Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug was a landmark moment for the euthanasia debate in India. Aruna was a nurse working in the King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) in Mumbai. […]
Johanna Hanefeld and Richard Smith: Charging for non-EEA migrants’ access to the NHS—who will follow?
The UK government recently announced that it will in future charge migrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and foreign visitors a 150% fee for service when using the […]
Bijal Chheda-Varma: Bariatric surgery is unsustainable
Obesity is widely recognised as one of the greatest health threats of the 21st century across the developed world, with about a third of the global population now obese or […]
Vijaya Nath: Medical engagement—change or die
More than a year since Robert Francis’s recommendations, and after reports by Don Berwick, Sir Bruce Keogh, and the new Care Quality Commission inspection regime, we are still being challenged to […]
Gitau Mburu: Why communities should care about WHO’s antiretroviral guidelines
A year ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued revised and consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection. These guidelines included a key […]
Jack Johnson: My week as a medical journalist
I arrived at the offices of The BMJ on Monday 7 July, expecting to spend the day at a desk reading scholarly articles, which I had little chance of making […]