There have been some recent newspaper reports that networks of private hospital owners have threatened to stop providing services to patients if the government of Karnataka expands the Vajpayee Arogyashree […]
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The BMJ Today: Wikipedia, childbirth, and statins
Would you ever cite Wikipedia as a source of academic information? An increasing number of people are, according to this study by M Dylan Bould and colleagues. But it is […]
The BMJ Today: Insurance and inequalities
How can health inequities be tackled when their causes lie beyond the control of the health sector or even national governments? This was the question that a report by the […]
The BMJ Today: HPV vaccine, chemotherapy, and psychiatry in the Gaza strip
Another evidence booster for the quadrivalent vaccine today. Controlled clinical studies have shown it almost completely prevents high grade cervical abnormalities, and now a BMJ paper has confirmed that even […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 March 2014
NEJM 27 Feb 2014 Vol 370 799 I’ve reached the age when people look back and sigh and cluck about the way the world has changed since they were children. […]
The BMJ Today: Sponsorship, epilepsy, and votes
Welcome to this new blog category, The BMJ Today. We aim to post an update each weekday of recent articles and other content to have caught our eye. We hope it […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—24 February 2014
NEJM 20 Feb 2014 Vol 370 699 This week, the NEJM is big on bevacizumab. Amongst the crowd of mabs, this is one of the best known: Avastin is a […]
Giridhara R Babu: Health for Indians—who cares about it anyway?
Political parties often pitch intensively against a few individuals for maximum media bites. There is, however, no real discussion of the issues which affect the lives of scores of Indians. “Development” has […]
Richard Hurley: We need your help: what will India’s 2014 general elections mean for health?
In a couple of months India will hold parliamentary elections to determine its next central government. This administration, due to hold office from June, will also have responsibility for drafting […]
Anita Jain: Lessons from history for modern medicine
“Medical knowledge usually relegates history to an incidental and anecdotal role but always outside the boundary of development of pure scientific knowledge.” […]