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Helen Jaques: Industrial action live blog
Welcome to the BMJ’s industrial action live blog. Today doctors across the UK will be taking industrial action for the first time in nearly 40 years to protest against changes […]
Andrew Burd on a white coat party
Last week the annual celebration of the passing of the final MBChB exams took place at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It is a tradition. Saturday morning, after a […]
Stephen Ginn: “Moral obligation” or “a disaster for humanity and the planet?”
Is medical control of human aging a worthy goal? Despite the moisturisers you can buy it is impossible to reverse the damage of aging and very few of us will […]
Deborah Cohen reports from the Parliamentary Select Committee on the regulation of implants
Parliamentary Select Committees are only as good as the evidence they receive. Evidence is taken in the form of written submissions, then MPs of various political persuasions gather— along with […]
Carl Heneghan and Deborah Cohen on PiP breast implants: implants need rigorous and transparent assessment of the evidence in future
A Department of Health review into the Poly Implant Prothèse (PiP) breast implant scandal has found that although the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), acted […]
Deborah Cohen on Nestlé and the International Diabetes Federation: comfortable bedfellows?
Nestlé has just announced a three year partnership with the International Diabetes Federation (IDF)—an umbrella organisation representing national diabetes societies from around the world— as part of its contribution to […]
Deborah Cohen 8 May 15h30: BMJ/CEBM submission to select committee about medical implants regulation
Over the coming weeks, the House of Commons science and technology committee will take verbal evidence about the regulation of medical implants. The BMJ—together with the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University—has […]
Peter Lapsley: Unfairer charges
They’ve done it again! While prescription charges were abolished in Wales in 2007, Northern Ireland in 2010, and Scotland in 2011, the Department of Health in England increased them from […]
Deborah Cohen: 27 April, 14h00, the lack of implant regulation in Europe is finally starting to bite
The reality of the lack of implant regulation in Europe is finally starting to bite. A leaked internal FDA report “Unsafe and ineffective devices approved in the EU that were […]