According to the historian Tony Judt, the Red Army, after raping and brutalising its way across Europe in the closing stages of the Second World War, left behind, in Germany […]
Guest writers
John Pring: On the Paralympics, DLAs, and PIPs
These are strange, mixed-up days to be a disabled person. Newspapers are littered as never before with stories of the high achieving disabled athletes set to take part in the […]
Edmund Jessop on the selling off of school playing fields and encouraging young people into sport
Our relationship with physical activity starts at such a young age that it is vital that we all—schools, families, society—play our part to get it right for children and young […]
Nicola While: The new EU law for data protection and its impact on healthcare
The provision of healthcare in the UK is often significantly affected by EU legislation despite member states guarding the right to define national health policy and to organise and deliver […]
Martin Wiseman, Kathryn Allen, and Rachel Thompson: Weighing the evidence on cancer prevention
Scientists gathered at the World Cancer Congress in Montreal, Canada last week to share experience from research and practice, and to consider solutions to reduce the impact of cancer on […]
James Drife: Doctors on the Fringe
This week we are in Edinburgh, performing on the Festival Fringe. We’ve been doing this intermittently since 1974, and in fact the personal view that I wrote about our first […]
Steve Yentis: Infamous names in anaesthesia—part two
My list of anaesthetists who are famous for the wrong reasons currently has two categories and four entries. The first category, “Anaesthetists convicted of killing Michael Jackson,” would have just […]
Kailash Chand on Tony Nicklinson and the right to die
As Tony Nicklinson’s case illustrates, there is clearly a desire among some patients with debilitating and incurable diseases, to end their suffering with the support of their doctor and relatives. […]
Desmond O’Neill: Humour at one hundred
The study of centenarians is one of the fastest evolving fields of gerontology. In a seemingly paradoxical counterpoint to their almost inevitable tally of frailties, this group is simultaneously endowed […]
Emma Rourke reviews Horizon: Eat, Fast, and Live Longer
There’s a new intervention being trialled. It will help you lose weight, it will delay the potential onset of dementia, and best of all it will enable you to live […]