Recently an article was published in Science claiming that it is easy to re-identify credit card transaction data that has been anonymized. While this is not health data, the authors […]
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Penny Pereira: What does it really take to improve patient safety?
How confident are you that the risk management processes in your organisation enable you to predict and manage all the risks your patients are likely to face? If you have […]
The BMJ Today: Food everywhere
I visited an old friend recently and we realised that we’d spent two hours of the evening watching a television channel devoted to cookery programmes, while eating. Food is everywhere […]
The BMJ Today: The FDA and CDC’s disagreement over Tamiflu, and the spy who isn’t
If you remain uncertain about the benefits or otherwise of oseltamivir (Tamiflu), you may not be much helped by consulting and comparing the pronouncements and statements issued by the two […]
Paul Roblin on Dobson et al’s Lancet Tamiflu re-analysis: an independent review group. Really?
On 30 January 2015 the Lancet published a re-analysis of oseltamivir effects in symptomatic influenza like illness “Oseltamivir treatment for influenza in adults: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.” This was authored […]
The challenges China faces as it stops using organs from executed prisoners
From 1 January 2015, China stopped using organs from executed prisoners for transplants. This was announced by Jiefu Huang, China’s former vice minister of health and current head of the Organ […]
Samir Dawlatly: Healthcare in 2065
I looked down at my left leg. It had been aching for a day or two. Thanks to the laser eye surgery that I had had the previous month, I […]
Kate Adlington: Mitochondrial donation—the person at the centre of “three person IVF”
A vote was held yesterday in the House of Commons to decide whether to allow mitochondrial donation to be used in clinical practice. The vote marked the culmination of a […]
Pritpal S Tamber: Interview with Jonathan Stead on transforming disadvantaged communities
It’s pretty well understood that people from disadvantaged communities have more important things to worry about than their health. However, one general practitioner (primary care physician) in the southwest of […]
The BMJ Today: Torture, training, and role models
Unsettlingly recent media coverage seems to be full of articles and images of torture which raises the questions for our profession of “What is the role of doctors when faced […]