NEJM 2 October 2014 Vol 371 1285 Here is a trial which had me taking my glasses off and scratching my bald patch. Why on earth should a drug company—in this […]
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The BMJ Today: More on climate change
Earlier this year, The BMJ’s editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was one of 50 senior UK medical professionals to sign a letter in the Times newspaper about the health benefits […]
The BMJ Today: Conflicting interests
As politicians enjoy a glass or two of the hard stuff during this week’s Conservative Party conference, they may like to find time to read a BMJ research paper on […]
Gavin Yamey et al: Our hunches on how to tackle humanitarian disasters can cause harm
It seemed, on the face of it, to make a lot of sense. It seemed intuitively the right thing to do. When the Indian Ocean tsunami struck on 26 December […]
The BMJ Today: Thinking diagonally
National commitments to reducing global CO2 emissions are in the spotlight again after the recent United Nations talks. Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their strongest statements yet […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—29 September 2014
NEJM 25 September 2014 Vol 371 1189 This week we start with mepolizumab. Before we know it, we encounter losmapimod. Enough is enough. I think the World Health Organization should […]
The BMJ Today: Death talk in India
How viable is a system of “verbal autopsy” to determine future health policy in a country where most deaths occur outside hospitals, are not attended by doctors, and are not […]
The BMJ Today: Beyond doing no harm, helping can get tough
Medicine can do great things, but at today’s thebmj.com things look rather bleak. Nine out of 10 people who are transferred to hospital with cardiac arrest don’t survive to discharge. Some […]
The BMJ Today: Time to engage with politics and policy
No sooner had I finished reading my colleague’s blog about taking a global view of health, than I found myself reading Jocalyn Clark’s analysis, which questions where the efforts for […]
The BMJ Today: Taking a global view of health
Listening to the news here in the UK this past week, you would find it easy to forget that there is a world outside this small island. But visit bmj.com […]