• The WHO and World Bank have released a report showing as many as 400 million people around the world do not have access to essential health services. The report, published […]
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Jocalyn Clark: The surprising links between child marriage, climate change, and health
It seems obvious that child marriage—marriage before 18 years of age—would be bad for girls’ health. It risks injury and death due to early pregnancy and abuse, and usually means […]
Richard Smith: “Diagnose, treat, and cure” is largely dead
I don’t suppose that the people who taught me at medical school thought that they were promoting particular mental models. They were trying (and sadly failing) to make me the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—15 June 2015
NEJM 11 June 2015 Vol 372 2307 Here at last is a study that shows some benefit from out of hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It’s not a randomised trial, since that […]
The BMJ Today: Cervical screening, pyoderma gangrenosum, and pay for performance
• Cervical screening programmes often stop at around the age of 65 and focus on younger women. In their analysis article, Susan Sherman and colleagues argue that, with an ageing population, […]
Salil Patel: Why you should know about global surgery
More people die from a lack of surgical care than from HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. Half of the world’s population face catastrophic financial expenditure due to surgery. With over […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Medical logos
“Grapheme” is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “The class of letters and other visual symbols that represent a phoneme or cluster of phonemes” and “in a given writing […]
The BMJ Today: The many problems of the research enterprise
Here’s what is new on thebmj.com today. • Selective reporting in trials of high risk cardiovascular devices Do regulators trust the medical literature as a source of unbiased knowledge? I would […]
Neel Sharma: We need to improve feedback to medical students
The other day I made a point of observing the number of people walking whilst using their mobile phones. I am sure we have all made a similar observation of […]
The BMJ Today: How many patients is the private sector treating for the NHS?
• Paid for by the NHS, treated privately In one of his regular data briefings, John Appleby, chief economist at the King’s Fund, looks at how much non-NHS providers contribute to […]