I had been asked by the registrar I was shadowing to examine a patient’s abdomen. Midway through palpating, the patient stopped me, mildly outraged and pointed to my hand. She […]
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Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—23 July 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
The NHS must have the courage to seize this hopeful moment to step up the fight for justice
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Nigel Crisp: A new settlement for health and wellbeing
The NHS has been magnificent during the pandemic, fighting for our lives over the last few weeks and months. But it’s been up to us, the general public, to limit how […]
Anna Charles: This is not the right time for a wholesale NHS reorganisation
You might expect, in the midst of a global pandemic, that unpicking the inner workings of the organisations that run and oversee the national health service would be far from […]
Healthier nutrition supplements may improve brain health among young children
The inspiration for our recent research was a simple thought: “I wouldn’t feed that to my own kid.” One of us (SBR) does research primarily on obesity, but had been […]