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Will an opt-out organ transplant law save lives?
The recent decision in England to change the organ donation law from voluntary consent (opt-in) to presumed consent (opt-out) highlighted the debate around the best approach to organ donation. It […]
Lucy Selman: Reducing preventable stillbirth rates in the UK
More must be done—Nine babies every day is just too many […]
Putting patient centred care at the core of medical education
Remember when you first heard that you had got into medical school? That great feeling of the dream coming true? How the happiness coincided with the sudden realization you would […]
Rebecca Vinding and Hans Bisgaard: How we built vikings
Childhood growth is a key indicator for both health and disease. Both obesity and undernourishment are signs of possible underlying disease, dietary disruption, or eating disturbances, while normal growth suggests […]
Samir Dawlatly: UK life expectancy figures mask growing health problems
While the average life expectancy continues to rise in the UK, there are worrying trends within the statistics. I do not think it possible for life expectancy to keep rising […]
Unreported clinical trial of the week: Rociletinib (CO-1686) for patients with EFRG-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NCT02186301 & NCT02322281)
Nick DeVito and Ben Goldacre Background The US FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA 2007) requires certain clinical trials to report their results onto ClinicalTrials.gov within one year of completion. Our FDAAA […]
Richard Smith: Ten years of working towards patients controlling their own health records
I first met Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, founder and chief executive of Patients Know Best, ten years ago and heard his idea that all patients should have access to and control of […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—3 September 2018
This week we introduce the next of our three new columnists who will be writing our weekly research reviews […]
James S Thambyrajah: Providing prison healthcare is a unique experience
As a GP who works in prison healthcare, I was saddened and shocked to hear what occurred at HMP Birmingham recently. The government had to take over control from a […]