NEJM 26 Dec 2013 Vol 369 2481 There was no let up in the American journals over what they call the holiday period, and the NEJM offered a trial of […]
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Anne Winter: The drive for universal health coverage
In 2000, the whole of sub Saharan Africa had fewer telephone lines than Manhattan, and less than 3% of rural villages had access to land line telephones. Six years later, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—16 December 2013
NEJM 12 Dec 2013 Vol 369 2283 This week most of the NEJM is taken up with trials of genotyping to guide starting doses of vitamin K antagonists. Fair enough: […]
Jim Murray: New fronts in the struggle for transparency
The European Court of Justice has struck down and ordered a rehearing of the cases for an interim injunction to stop the European Medicines Agency’s new transparency policy on clinical […]
Richard Smith on Larry Summers: an economist with glamour
I was once in a restaurant in London when Nicole Kidman brushed past my table. Six feet of silver glamour. The effect was very much more intense than shaking hands […]
J Michael McGinnis: Building the patient and family advisory leadership network
Last month, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) partnered with Blue Shield of California Foundation and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute to bring together patient and family advisory council leaders […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—9 December 2013
NEJM 5 Dec 2013 Vol 369 2183 Respect: this trial collected nearly a thousand patients who survived out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and ended up in one of 36 intensive care units […]
Edward Davies: Keep religion in the consulting room
Faith and healthcare do not comfortable bedfellows make. The majority of coverage of their convergence is around the tensions and conflict they can cause. Here in the US, the battleground […]
Richard Smith: Can the Grand Convergence replace the MDGs?
The Grand Convergence is the Big Idea of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health. It is the idea that by 2035 the poor world could have similar mortality to […]
Edward Davies: Your patient just got punched in the mouth, doctor
The infamous pugilist Mike Tyson doesn’t get a lot of airtime in the BMJ and I wouldn’t normally advise he be used as a paean of common sense. The guy […]