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Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: time for visionary political leadership
Stakeholders need to engage effectively with community leaders to regain public trust, says this BMJ Opinion piece […]
Claire Hilton: Caring for people who are mentally ill—lessons from a tragic past
Claire Hilton, the Royal College of Psychiatrists’s first ever historian in residence, looks at what the mental healthcare of the past can teach us about mental health services today […]
Wendy Mitchell: For those living with dementia, we need hope—research gives us that hope
Clinicians can transform patients’ perspective on their diagnosis by moving from “there’s nothing we can do” to “research participation is something you can do,” says Wendy Mitchell […]
Angela Merkel: Implementing sustainable development goal 3
Speaking in Berlin earlier this year, Angela Merkel reminded world leaders that health is a shared task and that to live dignified lives, we must all collaborate on common goals […]
Ulrick Sidney: Visas for global health events—too many are losing their seat at the table
Visa barriers for researchers from low and middle income countries make global health events less equitable and effective, says Ulrick Sidney […]
Alcohol related hospital admissions: Locking the door after the horse has bolted
The government’s cuts to addiction services have displaced the burden of alcohol onto an already overstretched NHS hospital system, say Emmert Roberts and Colin Drummond […]
Karen Burns: Ten things that I wish I had known as a woman entering academic medicine
Despite the growing number of women in medical academia, there is still a long way to go before gender equity is achieved. Karen Burns gives advice to those women who […]
Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley: Why it’s time we all woke up to the importance of sleep
For too long, medicine has been a cult that deifies workaholism and mocks those who “fuss” about sleep, say Matt Morgan and Peter Brindley […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Hyphenation
From time to time someone writes asking me to explain some aspect of punctuation. Recently I have been asked to arbitrate between “sub-group” and “subgroup”. I prefer the latter. The […]