As everyone settles into the new year and tries to keep to their resolutions, the reflective nature of the period is hard to ignore. If you’re revisiting the previous year’s […]
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Luca De Fiore and Tom Jefferson: Pills from the world
European regulatory agencies frequently inform doctors and pharmacists about their activities, paying particular attention to pharmacovigilance. The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) started a new information feed on 3 April 2012: […]
The death debate: a response from Richard Smith
I’m sorry that I’ve upset many people who have cancer or who have had a bad experience of somebody dying of cancer [see previous blog]. That wasn’t my intention. I […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 January 2015
JAMA 24-31 December 2014 Vol 312 2659 The effects of extreme heat on older adults: what a great topic for this cold gloomy time of the year. “Heat wave periods […]
The BMJ Today: Meta-analyses and meta-meta-analyses
Meta-analyses can be dull reads, but, when done properly, they are the best summaries of available evidence for doctors to base their decisions on. Today we see two new meta-analyses […]
Margaret Cooter: Suffering for art
It is a truth generally acknowledged that artists must suffer for their art. Also, it is widely believed (in the art community at least) that good art has its basis […]
Billy Boland: Some New Year’s resolutions
Earlier this week, I saw someone put up their New Year’s resolutions from last year (NYE 2013) on social media to evaluate what they had achieved. It was, in fact, rather […]
Ted Willis: Can the NHS meet the challenges of the next 20 years?
Expenditure on our health services in the UK has been rising consistently at around 4% per year in real terms for the last 30 years. It has doubled in real terms […]
The BMJ Today: Baby doctors refuse to be babied
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on home births attracted a flurry of media attention when it was first published at the end of last year, […]
Aoife Molloy: Where your baby is born—informing mothers about the choices they face
This is not a birth story blog, hear ye! However, as a doctor and a mum who’s gone through the whole process of childbirth twice in the last two years, coupled […]