• Is it time for calorie labels on alcohol? How much do you know about the calorie content of your favourite tipple? Probably not much, if you follow the trend […]
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The BMJ Today: Growth charts, depression screening, and a second pair of eyes
• Growth charts reflect a growth in children within India The growth charts committee of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) has recently published new growth charts for children aged […]
The BMJ Today: Watch, read, listen, do
If you watch one thing today . . . See the two video clips embedded in the “Comptetent Novice” paper “A quick ward assessment of older patients by junior doctors,” and […]
The BMJ Today: Cancer drugs, BMJ awards, and challenges for the NHS
• Donald Light and Joel Lexchin write about the easy ride cancer drugs get in the approval process. They point to three weaknesses: trials on cancer drugs are more often […]
The BMJ Today: Elders, teens, and tobacco in the modern era
• Jonathan Gornall writes about the tobacco industry’s likely opposition to new UK plain cigarette packaging laws in the powerful feature, “Slaying the dragon: how the tobacco industry refuses to […]
The BMJ Today: What are doctors around the world up to?
The BMJ has reported a number of medical fraud cases in the US lately. An ophthalmologist in Florida who used to see 100 patients per day has been accused of making […]
The BMJ Today: What is happening in US medicine?
Even though I was far away from New York City, I will always remember the 11 September 2001, as I was in medical school taking an exam that day. An […]
The BMJ Today: Candy Crush as pain relief, and doctors as carers and scientists
• A news story reports on the intriguing case of a man who lost the use of his left thumb after playing the smartphone game Candy Crush all day for […]
The BMJ Today: Promises, promises
• It’s political parties’ manifestoes week, and The BMJ‘s reporter Gareth Iacobucci has summarised the promises made on the NHS, health, and social care of those that have been published, and […]
The BMJ Today: Let’s ditch the posh sandwiches
– In her latest column, Margaret McCartney looks at the relationship between big pharma and doctors’ postgraduate education. McCartney argues that it is better for doctors to ditch the free […]