• Can Gurinder Singh Grewal, the new president of the Punjab Medical Council, clean up medicine in Punjab? He is being praised for his anticorruption stance by the media, and his […]
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Tom Jefferson: EMA confidential—the EMA continues consultation on its 0070 policy and concerns appear
Following on from its recent webinar I blogged about, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) held a consultation meeting with industry and selected stakeholders to discuss specific aspects of its policy […]
Veena Rao: India’s welfare woes
There’s been a huge amount of criticism in India following budgetary cuts imposed on social sector programmes in this year’s budget, the most prominent being the 50% cut in the […]
Shiva Raj Mishra and Dinesh Neupane: How small local NGOs responded to Nepal’s earthquake
Nepal’s earthquake affected 30 of its 75 districts taking the lives of nearly 8,604 people. 16,808 people were injured. About 3 million were displaced during two major earthquakes less than […]
The BMJ Today: The safety of SSRIs during pregnancy, controversial trade deals, and bow legs and knock knees
• Specific SSRIs and birth defects The association between maternal use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), during pregnancy and birth defects has been the topic of much discussion […]
John Middleton: Cement—Gaza’s forgotten public health need
A delegation of public health professors and specialists from the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) visited Gaza from 5-7 June 2015, and took part […]
The BMJ Today: Money and medicine
• A report by the Kings Fund finds that “clinicians can do more to deliver better health outcomes at a lower cost.” The report points out examples of successful cost-savings and efficiency, […]
William Cayley: Diagnosis—what it’s not . . .
“Phew! At least you don’t have something bad.” “I know doc, but what is it?” I’m afraid that in medicine, we too often focus on the former, and not enough […]
Anna Mead-Robson: Welfare cuts and suicide risk
Pity the politician tasked with addressing over a thousand psychiatrists on the state of mental health services. At last week’s International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, such a […]
David Lock: Who has a legal duty to fund post-trial treatment?
If someone has been in a clinical trial, do they have a legal right to ongoing treatment for as long as treatment is clinically appropriate where the clinical trial was […]