To date there have been nearly 150,000 deaths in the UK with covid-19 listed on the death certificate. We have all been touched with the loss of a loved one […]
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Driven by good intentions: why widening the diagnostic criteria for polycystic ovary syndrome may be harming women
The 2018 International Guidelines for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) were intended to standardise diagnosis and improve care, but they also endorsed the controversial Rotterdam diagnostic criteria. These include a larger […]
Covid-19 vaccine passports and vaccine hesitancy: freedom or control?
Recent debates around “vaccine passports,” or formal/mandatory certification of vaccination, point towards a potential widening societal divide between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. Those with certification […]
Covid-19 vaccine passports will harm sustainable development
Vaccine passports create a structural barrier to sustainable development, benefiting only the few at the expense of so many, say these authors […]
The F word—talking about failure in medicine
The F-word is a taboo within medicine that causes shock among medical students and doctors—and we are not talking about the profanity here, but instead the word “failure.” Institutionally, medical schools […]
Medicine under fire in Myanmar—now is the time for solidarity
On the first of February this year, Myanmar’s slow creep towards democracy came to a halt. The brittle scaffold of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s government was brushed aside. Refusing […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Self-experimentation
Self-experimentation, or autoexperimentation, is as old as experiments themselves. I have previously mentioned the case of Daniel Alcides Carrión, a medical student, who in 1885 had himself inoculated with an […]
You cannot practice public health without engaging in politics
We are living in extraordinary times. 2021 brings the covid-19 mortality to >2 million deaths worldwide and to >100,000 deaths in the UK. Steely eyed scientists are finding themselves the […]
Bicycles for the post-covid era—an opportunity India shouldn’t miss
Bicycles are a healthy, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly mode of transport that India should invest in, say Sucharita Panigrahi and Soumyadeep Bhaumik […]
Chris Ham: There are harsh lessons from covid-19 that need to be addressed
The scale of the challenges facing the NHS in England is revealed in planning guidance published last week by NHS England. A large number of priorities are identified related to […]