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Petra Boynton: Supporting healthcare workers to help patients cope with pregnancy loss
Anyone who’s had training on pregnancy loss will be familiar with the figures that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, and that every day in the UK 15 babies […]
Ian Hamilton: Are middle class drug users really to blame for the rise in violent crime?
Politicians can’t resist the getting “tough on drugs” message, even if it lacks evidence, says Ian Hamilton […]
Cecilia Trigg: More needs to be done to prevent food anaphylaxis deaths
Recent inquest reports into suspected food anaphylaxis deaths make harrowing reading. The recent cases were teenagers who lost their lives to a preventable cause of death. The incidence of food […]
Helen Stallman: Why we need to stop using the term “talking therapy”
The term “talking therapy” misrepresents what psychotherapy involves. Despite being a term that is not used by clinicians, it is widely-used internationally in communications with consumers. The NHS in the UK, for example, provides […]
Chris R Brewin: NICE and the PTSD revolution
NICE’s new draft guideline for PTSD fails to mention how ICD-11 has profoundly shifted how we diagnose this disorder […]
Reginald Hall: Talking with the patient
Most doctors are very good at talking to the patient, but not so good at talking with them […]
Tony Rao: Calling time on dumbing down our drinking culture
If we cannot rely on our government to observe the principle of being at “arm’s length” from the drinks industry, we wander into a storm that has the potential to […]
Trish Greenhalgh: The Cochrane Collaboration—what crisis?
Maintaining—and funding—the ‘view from nowhere’ requires delicate navigation of tricky political spaces and sometimes accepting hard-won compromises […]
Ray Moynihan: Let’s stop the burning and the bleeding at Cochrane—there’s too much at stake
To see the future of Cochrane threatened foreshadows a disaster for all of us […]