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Sandra Lako: The challenges of identifying and isolating Ebola cases in Sierra Leone
Although the situation in Sierra Leone with respect to Ebola has improved considerably since November, there are still cases in Freetown every day. With Ebola still present, it is important […]
Praveenkumar Aivalli on the status of AYUSH doctors in the government healthcare delivery system in India
AYUSH—an acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy—is a system of medicine that has been integrated into the Indian national healthcare delivery system to strengthen public health in rural […]
The BMJ Today: Smoking outdoors, substandard drugs in trials, and managing lower gastrointestinal symptoms
Here is my personal selection of what is new on The BMJ today: Head to Head • Is a smoking ban in UK parks and outdoor spaces a good idea? […]
Richard Graham: Child and adolescent mental health in the 21st century
The Duchess of Cambridge’s support for children’s mental health at the beginning of the first Children’s Mental Health Week was welcome, necessary, and urgent. At a time when austerity measures […]
Samir Dawlatly: Burnt out or boiled alive
The cleaner popped his head round the door, “You nearly finished, doc? Or are you happy to lock up?” The GP glanced at the bottom right corner of the glowing […]
Emma Rourke on why we need to GULP
Last week, Food Active, based in Liverpool and funded by the North West Directors of Public Health, launched a campaign encouraging people to Give Up Loving Pop—or GULP. To gulp […]
The BMJ Today: The perils of whistleblowing and the Russian roulette of NHS management
Here’s a flavour of what’s new on thebmj.com today. Features • Why would a hospital consultant go into management? Taking the job of NHS trust chief executive requires a doctor to […]
David Zigmond: The extinction of care by treatment—our healthcare’s heart failure
At the end of last year, the media had a brief frisson over another dark story from our NHS: seven recent suicides and one homicide involving people who were acutely […]
Richard Smith: A global university for healthcare workers
WHO estimates that the world is short of 12.9 million healthcare workers, and Devi Shetty, the cardiac surgeon and chairman and founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals, thinks that radical steps […]