Agriculture is intrinsic to nutrition. It is like stating the obvious—and no formal education or training is required to see the linkage. But the simplicity ends here. While “agriculture” is […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—23 September 2013
NEJM 19 Sep 2013 Vol 369 1106 I’m starting with the second paper about colonic cancer screening in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, because it takes us to […]
David Payne: Open House London’s healthy buildings
Akerman—a £12.3m community healthcare building designed by the architectual practice Henley Halebrown Rorrison—opened last year as part of the regeneration of Myatts Field North in the south London borough of Lambeth. […]
Tessa Richards: Lifting the lid on information and learning from it
Progress. The march towards giving patients online access to their medical records is accelerating. The Society of Participatory Medicine has put out the bunting in welcome to the announcement by […]
Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?
The piece that follows is my foreword to a new and fascinating book by Peter Gøtzsche, the head of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, entitled Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How […]
Richard Smith: Time for science to be about truth rather than careers
Most scientific studies are wrong, and they are wrong because scientists are interested in funding and careers rather than truth. That was the chilling message delivered by the smiling, brilliant, […]
Radhika Arora and Krishna D Rao: The struggle to provide healthcare in rural India
Being treated by a qualified doctor is something of a rarity for rural Indians. The country faces an overall scarcity of health workers (doctors, nurses, and midwives) with approximately 20 […]
Stirling Smith on the ethical procurement of NHS medical supplies
Welcome to a series of blogs on sustainable healthcare that will look at health, sustainability, and the interplay between the two. The blog will share ideas from experts across the […]
Richard Smith: A gamechanger for the polypill?
It is now some 15 years since the emergence of the idea and supporting evidence that combining antihypertensives and a statin into a single polypill and giving it to people […]
Siddhartha Yadav: A foreign medical graduate’s path to US residency
On 15 September 2013, thousands of doctors and doctors-to-be will flock to the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) website to apply for a residency position in the United States. As […]