At the recent World Health Summit in Berlin there was a workshop discussing the case of data sharing in Public Health Emergencies” organized by the Centre Virchow-Villermé. About two years […]
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Mary Higgins: Remembering
Recently we held our annual service of remembrance—the 20th time we have formally celebrated the brief lives of babies that died. This is an important part of our care of […]
Bev Stringer: Drug regulation in the age of antimicrobial resistance
The World Health Organization’s Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report 2016, released last week, is a sobering read. TB remains one of the world’s biggest killers, and cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—24 October 2016
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Clare Marx: Give sustainability and transformation plans a chance
The NHS is treating record numbers of patients with better outcomes, but it is now facing some of the biggest challenges in its history. Against this backdrop, Sustainability and Transformation […]
Lesley Henderson and Simon Carter: What can we learn from the doctors of Star Trek in its 50th anniversary year?
You don’t need to be a “Trekkie” to have noticed that 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. Events around the world have been organised to celebrate the enduring success […]
Paul Buchanan: Words can also hurt me
Words. As we look ahead to an increasingly connected and interconnected world, how do we, as clinicians and patients, account for the words we use? How do we record the […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Empathy—fact and fiction
The English suffix -pathy comes from the Greek -παθεια. Vary the prefix, vary the feeling: ἀντιπάθεια – suffering instead, contrary affection, aversion (ἀντί = opposite, against); εὐπάθεια – ease, sensitivity […]
Andrew Furber: Should local government run the NHS?
A white paper published by the Conservative government in 1944 proposed that a new National Health Service should be managed by local authorities. [1] The Labour Party was split on the […]
Tom Jefferson: The EMA’s policy 0070 is live
Yesterday the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) long awaited policy 0070 went live. I have previously described the policy, its aims, advantages, possible limitations, and potential impact on everyone here and […]