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Chris Packham: The trouble with public health
People think public health is all (lecturing the masses on) sex, drugs, and alcohol. Even fellow clinicians tend to forget about defined roles such as the public health specialist. These individuals focus […]
“Our language is funny—a ‘fat chance’ and a ‘slim chance’ are the same thing”: Helping artificial intelligence understand patients
Google is in hot water. First of all, the artificial intelligence (AI) focused branch of the organization, Google DeepMind, recently held a public meeting on the hot topic of accessing […]
Mark Mikhail: The unsung hero of the Paralympic games
As the dust settles and we look back on an incredible Olympics followed by an even more successful Paralympics it is impossible to not be filled with admiration. We in […]
Claudia Stein: Europe is embracing the burden of disease approach
As readers of The BMJ, there’s a good chance you are familiar with the burden of disease (BoD) approach. BoD is a systematic scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude […]
Jonathan Roos: Let’s hear it for the case report
To date, more than 56 million papers have been published in the scientific literature. Astonishingly, printing out just the first page of each would create a stack almost 6km high—much […]
Derek Summerfield: My NHS Trust insists on face recognition software to be sure of who I really am
The other day my NHS Trust sent me notification that I was due renewal of my Disclosure and Barring (DBS) clearance (previously called CRB). I was asked to bring my […]
Christopher Stokes: One year after Kunduz
Battlefields without doctors, in wars without limits Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is remembering one of the darkest moments in its history. On 3 October 2015, US airstrikes killed 42 people […]
Madhukar Pai and Nimalan Arinaminpathy: How can India overcome tuberculosis?
India reports more cases of tuberculosis than any other country. This much is well known. However, nobody quite knows the true magnitude of the TB problem in the country. For […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 October 2016
NEJM 29 Sep 2016 Vol 375 Creating a Zika vaccine In the 15th century, sailors from Cadiz set sail under a captain from Genoa to find the western route from Europe […]