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Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Adrenaline and epinephrine
Most therapeutic medicines have at least three different names. The chemical name, whose form generally follows the rules issued by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). For […]
Giorgia Sulis: Delamanid—a broken dream for patients with MDR-TB?
After decades of neglect by the drugs industry, the fight against tuberculosis will be even harder now that delamanid’s role seems to be rather limited […]
The international community needs to help reconstruct Somaliland’s healthcare system
The Horn of Africa, a region often synonymous with conflict and political uncertainty hosts Somaliland, a relatively peaceful breakaway costal region that declared its secession from Somalia in May 1991. […]
Chris Bulstrode: Now that the dust has settled—Ebola three years on
The developed world only woke up to the fact that there was a problem, when the first cases of Ebola arrived in the USA and Europe. Until then, the Ebola […]
Miriam Fine-Goulden: Adults are just big children—lessons from paediatric medicine
One of the earliest adages drummed into trainees in paediatrics is the advice and warning: “children are not small adults.” The implication is that we cannot simply scale down what […]
Richard Smith: The hypocrisy of medical journals over transparency
Medical journals generally favour transparency, but we’ve recently discovered that when there’s a trade-off between transparency and their financial interest they opt for the money. The International Committee of Medical […]
Corinna Hawkes: Reducing sugar—major supermarkets should start competing on health
Going to my local supermarket recently it struck me just how far we are from helping people eat well. A Krispy Kreme donut stand immediately greeted me and baskets of […]
Farrah Kashfipour: The waiting room art gallery
We collected hundreds of drawings—snapshots of an often overlooked corner of the world through the eyes of sick children […]
Kieran Walsh: How will we learn in the future?
I crashed a plane three times today. The first time I crashed into a tree, the second time into a river, and the third time into a bridge. But it […]