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“Following the science,” but was it the right science? A Parliamentary report raises serious questions about the UK’s covid-19 response
A new report from two House of Commons committees highlights the UK’s failed pandemic response. Martin McKee unpicks the findings […]
Elaine Mulcahy: A healthy prescription for a cleaner future
In a powerful letter to be delivered during COP26, the world’s health community will call on world leaders to take real action to put the world on a path that […]
Exercise Alice: the UK government tested the response to a coronavirus, but why are we only discovering this now?
If we don’t seem to have learned much from Exercise Alice, what can we learn from the attempts to conceal it, asks Martin McKee […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Stereoisomerism
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been won by David MacMillan at Princeton and Benjamin List at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Muelheim an der Ruhr. They developed a […]
Healthcare in our hands: Putting babies, children, and young people at the centre of their care
Everyone is entitled to a say in the healthcare services they use and a child or young person is no different, say Aishah Farooq, Emma Beeden, and Catherine White […]
Communicating about the representativeness of women in scientific productivity: a step towards greater equality
One of my main motivations for studying medicine was to fight discrimination and social (and gender) inequalities by providing equal healthcare for all. I became aware of gender discrimination through […]
Turning the tide: The Obesity Health Alliance’s healthy weight strategy
Tides are notoriously difficult to turn. But, when the time is right, even the strongest tides will turn—and now is one of those critical moments in relation to overweight and […]
Julian Sheather: Perilous medicine
Sarajevo on the morning of 29 May1992. The Serbian forces have surrounded the city. A Bosnian field commander reassures Esma Zecevic, the city’s chief paediatrician that the hospital will likely […]
Climate action: demanding economic systems that safeguard life
“As health and social inequalities widen, and we learn more about the power held over human lives by an ever-diminishing number of individuals and corporations, I predict that more doctors […]