In 2005 7579 people in England entered drug treatment for problems related to cannabis; by 2014 this had risen to 11 821. It is likely that this rise has continued […]
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Gerd Gigerenzer: Can search engine data save lives from pancreatic cancer?
Gerd Gigerenzer discusses how search engines use big data analytics to “diagnose” your state of health […]
Richard Smith: Where general practice is flourishing
We hear a constant chorus that general practice is underfunded, understaffed, and on the point of collapse, so I couldn’t resist the temptation to visit a practice that is flourishing […]
UK health alliance: The pathway to a healthy, low-carbon world is set
By Nick Watts, Nicola Wheeler, Pauline Castres The decision of the US President to quit the Paris Agreement will not trump that momentum. […]
David Southall: Ending the international arms trade could reduce terrorism and prevent the death of civilians
Advocacy by health professionals could help stop the arms trade […]
Ferraye and Bloem: Laser shoes and public transport
Technological innovations are rapidly being introduced into healthcare, with the aim of improving patients’ health and promoting self-management. Examples include the development of new ambulatory technologies that can assist patients […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 June 2017
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals […]
Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers: Can it really be true that 50% of research is unpublished?
Whatever the precise non-publication rate is, it is a serious waste of the roughly $180 billion annually invested in health and medical research globally […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The IDEAL shape of promulgation
Last week I suggested that passive diffusion and active dissemination of the outcomes of research could together be called “promulgation”. To promulgate is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as […]
Breakfast versus lunch, which packs the biggest punch?
Under the banner of “Fairer Funding,” the Tory manifesto outlines plans to change the current universal free school lunch system for infant pupils to a means tested programme plus universal […]