By Richard Smith and David Pencheon In 2007 Fiona Godlee, editor of The BMJ and somebody who has been concerned about the environment for at least 30 years, was outed […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—4 September 2017
NEJM 31 Aug 2017 Vol 377 Liraglutide and the egg-box Imagine that you are an egg-seller who is short of real eggs. But you happen to have lots of egg-white, […]
Taher Qassim: Yemenis are being left to rot in a forgotten war
The cholera epidemic in Yemen is raging in the midst of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Science—the cutting edge
The IndoEuropean root from which the word “science” eventually descends is SEK, or in an extended form SKEI, meaning to cut. In Greek σχίζειν meant to split or rend, giving […]
Richard Smith: A critique of Cyril Chantler’s plan for saving the NHS
Cyril Chantler—paediatric nephrologist, medical school dean, NHS manager, former chair of Great Ormond Street, and much else—is quite possibly the wisest man in the NHS. So we should play close […]
Baines and Babar: Why medical practitioners should be interested in the World Bank
A new series looks at the World Bank’s expanding role in global health […]
Ronnie Cowan: Drug policy reform is required, we can’t afford to delay for long
We should be addressing how we think about drugs and drug laws […]
Jane Dickson: It is never appropriate for women not to be able to afford emergency contraception
Recently we have seen a rallying of women in response to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Women’s Equality Party call for a reduction in the price of emergency […]
Terence Stephenson: The GMC is listening to what doctors are telling us on revalidation
The GMC is often the misguided target for the ire of those frustrated by the burden of regulation […]
Chris Simms: Confederates and Canadian colonialists—imprisoned by the past
It may be easier to topple monuments and memorials than erase the memories they evoke or the policies that sustain them. Canada’s experience is not the Confederates’ in Charlottesville, yet […]