NEJM 15-22 May 2014 Vol 370 1944 The introduction of pay for performance in the NHS attracted great interest in the USA, which is still trying to come up with […]
South Asia
The BMJ Today: Smoking, nicotine, e-cigarettes, and corruption
Should smokers be advised to cut down as well as to quit? This is the debate captured in our latest Head to Head article, just published on bmj.com. The cost […]
The BMJ Today: Statins and The BMJ
Even those whose daily diet does not include the pages of the national press could not have missed the furore over The BMJ’s very public correction of an error in […]
Rhys Davies: Women’s Rights are Human Rights
“How many women does it take to change a light bulb? One, but she may need to get a ladder or stand on a chair first.” As a straight white […]
Neethi V Rao: Corporate social responsibility in India
India’s new Companies Act with its rules mandating corporate social responsibility (CSR) came into effect on 1 April 2014. The objective of CSR is for businesses to exist as responsible […]
The BMJ Today: Information for patients and clinicians
Diabetes is among the most common non-communicable diseases in the world, and peripheral neuropathy is the most common symptomatic complication of this disease. Small and large fibers are affected, and […]
Arima Mishra and Sandesh Kotte: Where does the healthcare of Indian people figure in political parties’ election manifestos?
In their recent book, Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions, Sen and Dreze lament the fact that despite India’s consistent economic growth, the country falters on […]
KM Venkat Narayan: Roads in India – a fast growing death trap
Today I received a sad email about a 24 year old family friend who died in a road traffic accident in Mumbai. Rohan Sardar skid on the road while riding […]
The BMJ Today: The glass ceiling, upcoming elections, and big tobacco
As I look around our open plan office, towards where our editor, Fiona Godlee, sits, it would seem that the glass ceiling has been shattered at The BMJ. But, in […]
The BMJ Today: If you hear hoof beats in Texas think of horses, not zebras
As Saurabh Jha writes, “The likelihood that someone with cerebral aneurysm hit by a bat develops subarachnoid hemorrhage (near certainty) is not the same as the likelihood that someone who […]