The crackdown on sugar continues. The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition in the UK has recommended that people reduce their daily consumption of added sugar so that it makes up […]
South Asia
The BMJ Today: Troubling statistics—and calls for sweeping reforms
The BMJ has published some recent statistics that are more than a bit disconcerting. The first set regard corruption. Surely hard to measure, but “best estimates are that between 10% and […]
The BMJ Today: Sugar the bogeyman and slim boy fat
I stopped adding sugar to my tea when I was a teenager. Up until then (which was sometime in the mid 1970s), I had been wont to fill the cup […]
Julian Sheather: Torture, medicine, and the need for an independent eye
In August 2012, Claudia was woken at 3:00 in the morning when soldiers burst into her home in Veracruz City, Mexico. They tied her hands and blindfolded her. They took […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—23 June 2014
NEJM 19 Jun 2014 Vol 370 2387 If you have a patient who is taking an opioid for chronic, non-cancer pain and gets constipated as a result, what do you […]
The BMJ Today: Health challenges across the divide
Overdiagnosis and over-treatment of malaria is a major problem in South and central Asia, where malaria is a minority cause of febrile illness, and primary health centres often rely on […]
The BMJ Today: Return of the Patient’s Journey and a history lesson from Richard Lehman
Two years ago, GP Michael Frank Harris discovered a right inguinal swelling while looking in his bathroom mirror. He writes about what happened next in the return of our Patient’s […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—16 June 2014
NEJM 12 June 2014 Vol 370 2265 Obstructive sleep apnoea is often a result of weight gain, and unfortunately, once it is established, losing weight does not reduce it. But losing […]
The BMJ Today: Is EBM broken? Then how about a nice cuppa
Is evidence based medicine broken? That’s the question that Greenhalgh et al are asking in this Analysis article. From inside The BMJ, with our attempts to shed light on unpublished […]
Zoe Smith: Changing the story for neglected tropical diseases
While it’s been challenging to make neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) a priority on the global health agenda, until recently, the struggle to raise the conversation beyond niche circles has been […]