Nick DeVito, Navindra Persaud, 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 […]
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Time and pharmacist support in general practice are needed to improve medicines optimisation
More time and pharmacist support in general practice would reduce medication errors […]
Richard Smith: Revisiting “Stalinism in the NHS”
The appalling story of some 600 patients in Gosport Hospital being casually killed and the failure of every authority to take action makes me remember something that I wrote in […]
Patients or families raising the alarm are vital voices who must be heard, not problems or issues to be managed
The Gosport report gives us a clear vision of where the NHS needs to get to focus on patient safety and support openness and learning […]
Sally Davies: Tackling childhood obesity—evidence, persistence, and political will
Childhood obesity is one of the greatest challenges facing our society as well as our NHS. Approximately one in three children leaving primary school in England are overweight or obese, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—25 June 2018
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The Days of Pi
Earlier this year, my statistician colleagues invited me to join them for lunch on Pi Day. As resolved by the US Congress in 2009, after informal celebrations since 1988, Pi […]
Hilda Bastian: A Mediterranean diet trial’s retraction and republication leaves a trail of questions
It started with a paper by John Carlisle in 2017. [1] He analysed baseline data for participants in over 5,000 randomised trials, looking for differences in trial arms that would […]
Kieran Walsh: Learning on the ward
The ward round is an excellent opportunity for medical education. It is an opportunity to learn about taking a history, examining patients, ordering tests, and making decisions about management. If […]
The long-lasting damage of Trump’s family separation and child detention policy
Inaction will fortify the process of dehumanization and will rob us of our most human trait, empathy […]