“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
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Ed Cooper: Just do it!
I think our role is quite well covered by the slogan for sports footwear: “Just do it!” It’s satisfying to sit beside a doctor who is not a paediatrician but […]
Daniel Palazuelos on community participation in Mexico
I. The power to move mountains? The commotion pealed like thunder in the distance. It was unmistakable. We turned the corner of the mountain dirt road and came upon over […]
Research highlights – 22 October 2010
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Joe Collier: Help to allow terminally ill patients to die
In the UK surveys show that the public at large believe that, within carefully delineated safeguards, doctors should be allowed to assist intellectually competent adults with terminal illness to die […]
Peter Lapsley: Unfair charges
The decision by the Scottish Parliament to follow Wales and Northern Ireland, and to abolish prescription charges from April next year leaves the Department of Health out on a limb […]
Research highlights – 15 October 2010
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]
Colin Ball: It’s a miracle
Our story starts in March 2006. Tayler Bequest Hospital is a beautiful looking building with a Cape Dutch exterior that concealed the true awfulness of what was seen there every […]
Muza Gondwe on expanding the African Science Café network
Magical, subversive, and democratic are the words that Dr.Daniel Glaser, head of special projects in public engagement at the Wellcome Trust, used to describe the charm of science cafes in […]
Research highlights – 8 October 2010
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]