During July 2009 during a brief visit to the US my three sons and I noticed that electronic cigarettes were being sold at kiosks in the mall. It seemed so […]
Guest writers
Siddhartha Yadav: TedxChange’s millennium development goals webcast
Sitting in the comfort of my room and sipping a cup of tea, I listened to Melinda Gates and others this morning – live. The TedxChange was an event organized […]
Mit Philips on doublespeak in Vienna
The high point of the summer, for those involved in HIV-AIDS, was the Vienna AIDS conference – a perfect mix of evidence, policies, and politics. While some of the scientific […]
Rahim Rezaie: A neglected resource for neglected diseases
What does a recently developed meningitis vaccine, the the anti-malarial drug ASMQ, and balaglitazone have in common? The meningitis vaccine is a partnership involving the Program for Appropriate Technology in […]
Andrew Burd on white coats and scrubs in Seoul
I’ve just spent one day at Leicester General Hospital. I worked there in 1980, my first SHO job in general surgery. 105 appendicectomies performed by myself in six months. Those […]
Nataly Kelly: The value of a single word
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a word worth? It seems difficult to quantify. Yet, 30 years ago, a Florida hospital was faced with that […]
Karyn Moshal on CHIVA Africa
In 2004, when the South African antiretroviral programme to tackle the HIV pandemic finally began, the concern turned to the management of children – the group that is always left […]
Neil Snowise: Medical breakthroughs…what would you choose?
If you had to choose the major medical breakthroughs of the last century, how easy would this be and what would you select? This was the challenge for the Royal […]
Olivia Roberts: UK public prefers WHO to Dr Who
You would think that Matt Smith and David Tennant, of popular television programme Dr Who, would have a few more fans in the UK than Dr Margaret Chan, director general […]
Fabio Turone on colleagues fighting in Sicily
When you hear that a woman lost her uterus, and her newborn is in a coma because two obstetrician gynaecologists went into a fistfight in the delivery room of a […]