The number of doctors leaving Greece to work abroad is causing a shortage of medical staff in Greece. As a medical student, I have experienced both the British and Greek […]
Guest writers
Gillian Leng: Do we trust the experts?
Avoiding conflicts of interest in a guideline committee is now recognised internationally as being one of the most important aspects of creating robust guidance. At NICE, we’ve reflected this in […]
Karim Brohi: Trauma networks and terrorist events—to care for many, care for one
In 2005, I was a senior specialist registrar in surgery at the Royal London Hospital and managed casualties from the 7/7 London bombings. Twelve years later, now a consultant trauma […]
Jeave Reserva at al: Soft tissue fillers in aesthetic medicine
Soft-tissue fillers have become a cornerstone of modern nonsurgical aesthetic medicine, but they have come on a long way since the use of paraffin as a filler in nineteenth century […]
Enrico Coiera et al: First compute no harm
We will need new principles and regulations to govern medical artificial intelligence […]
Michael Fell: Household smart meters could be used to monitor our health
Within years, almost every home in Britain, and many other countries around the world, could be equipped with a device capable of delivering an array of remote health and care […]
Emiliano De Cristofaro: Genome data can never be fully anonymised
Security issues that are specific to genome data need to be considered […]
Urban public health strategies will be key to ending AIDS
Reuben Granich, Sindhu Ravishankar, and José M. Zuniga Good News from London It is welcome news that HIV diagnoses in England fell by 17% between 2014 and 2015 with a […]
Markus G. Seidel: Baby genome screening—paving the way to genetic discrimination?
Newborn screening programmes for a set of disease biomarkers are mandatory in many countries of the world in order to detect inborn errors early on and to avoid disabilities in […]
Edward Gilbert-Kawai: Blue-ink bandits
I write in patients’ notes in blue ink. Not only does this enable me to find my previous inserts rapidly among the ever-increasing reams of paperwork, but perhaps more importantly, […]