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Richard Smith: Trying to make patient monitoring outside of intensive care widely used
Dinesh Seemakurty’s idea for a business came to him as he sat by his grandfather’s hospital bed in Kakinada, India. His grandfather had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had been […]
Kate A Levin: Low uptake of advance directives and the cost to public health
The older population in every country in the world is growing.1 In several high income countries, the increased health burden of older people on public spending is occurring at a […]
Peter Doshi: Speed vs safety in the FDA’s new drug approvals—speed wins, again
In the late 1980s, AIDS activists stormed the headquarters of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with a message that the FDA’s drug approval process was, simply put, killing […]
Alice Welbourn: WHO and the rights of women living with HIV
Women’s rights to informed choices about what happens to their bodies are often contested—especially if they are pregnant or have HIV. Yet informed choices about risks and benefits form a […]
Theo Bloom: Transparency or anonymity in peer review—which is fairer?
Increasing openness is a better route to eliminating biases than increasing anonymity […]
Nick Hopkinson: Chronic breathlessness syndrome—the power of a name
The recognition of a new clinical entity, “chronic breathlessness syndrome” has been proposed, following an international Delphi process to achieve an expert consensus.1 Why does this matter and is it […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—11 September 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Yogesh Jain: Lean diabetes in rural poor populations—management of this subset of patients needs rethinking
In the impoverished community in rural central India where my colleagues and I run a comprehensive primary health care programme, half of the population live below the poverty line [spend […]
Emma Cox: Are we ready to seize the opportunities the new contract gave us?
I started my foundation year 1 (FY1) post last year full of negativity about the new junior doctor contract being enforced. My expectations were that I was going to be […]