Where I work in Newham, east London, there are some acute challenges to delivering efficient and effective healthcare. We have a young local population with a high prevalence of diabetes […]
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Neville Goodman: Stemming the rising tide of epidemic proportions
Metaphor is useful. When Malcolm Gladwell wrote about an epidemic of Hush Puppies, no one thought that Hush Puppies were transmissible in anything more than the metaphorical sense. But as […]
The BMJ Today: When is a doctor a GMC doctor and when is a doctor a Robodoc?
Plans to move doctors’ full registration with the General Medical Council from the end of the first year of foundation training to the point of graduation from medical school was […]
James Buchanan: Genomics, the data revolution, and health economics—the 2015 Astellas Innovation Debate
It’s early days, but 2015 is already shaping up to be another exciting year for researchers in genomics. In his State of the Union address last month, Barack Obama launched […]
Vincent Iacopino: Health professionals have no role in Saudi blogger’s flogging case
The disturbing case of a Saudi blogger sentenced to flogging should serve as a reminder that health professionals should never participate in torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Raif […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—2 February 2015
NEJM 29 January 2015 Vol 372 407 A Canadian trial tells us a bit more about how to treat raised blood pressure in pregnancy. If women already have elevated BP […]
The BMJ Today: Will the mitochondrial horse fall at the last hurdle?
Suddenly last week, the Church of England and the Catholic Church weighed into the debate about mitochondrial replacement—the use of the mitochondria from a healthy woman to replace the faulty […]
Richard Smith: Is the NHS being the top issue in the election a sign of a degenerate society?
Some polls suggest that the NHS is the number one issue for voters in Britain’s coming general election. That’s one reason that the Labour Party has put it at the […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Blogging on
What links blogs to logs (wooden ones)? The Sailor’s Word Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms (1867), compiled by Admiral W[illiam] H[enry] Smyth and revised for publication by Vice […]
Stuart Buck: Sharing data from past clinical trials
There was a time when academic and government researchers performed experiments that were clearly unethical—such as letting syphilis go untreated, or asking people to administer severe electric shocks to each […]