NEJM 21-28 August 2014 Vol 371 711 I have a new little grandson called Timothy. He is lucky being born in August because respiratory syncytial virus generally lies low at […]
South Asia
The BMJ Today: When money and medicine mix
Earlier this year, The BMJ published an editorial urging doctors in India to fight back against corruption in medicine. Kickbacks and bribes are a global problem but India, “with rampant corruption […]
The BMJ Today: If wishes were sustainable development goals
Fourteen years ago, leaders from across the world came together at the United Nations headquarters in New York to pledge their efforts towards achieving eight targets for global development. Together, […]
The BMJ Today: Ebola, Edinburgh, edifices
Ebola and the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence have, among other things, spared UK national newspaper editors the anxiety of how to fill column inches in the “silly season” month […]
David Zigmond: Can we always “treat” our tragic paradoxes?
Robin Williams’s recent death is a familiar shock: another premature loss of a publicly loved figure. How do we understand and respond to such tragic discrepancy? On the radio (BBC’s Today programme on […]
The BMJ Today: Medicine’s vast horizons
At first glance, three articles published this week in The BMJ appear to have limited relevance to medicine. One, written by an economist, discusses the challenges faced by demographers when […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 August 2014
NEJM 14 August 2014 Vol 371 601 The usual wisdom about sodium chloride is that the more you take, the higher your blood pressure and hence your cardiovascular risk. We’ll […]
The BMJ Today: When the worst choice is no choice at all
You would think that any woman raped as an act of war would be given access to a safe abortion by an international organisation providing aid. Sally Howard’s Feature on […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—11 August 2014
NEJM 7 August 2014 Vol 371 497 A new gene for breast cancer susceptibility? The PALB2 gene locus has been known about for several years, but this study puts it […]
The BMJ Today: Boring can be beautiful
Mary E Black’s blog on making data beautiful caught my eye this morning. As a technical editor at The BMJ I see a lot of tables, graphs, plots, and charts. I […]