The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has now released the final version of its policy on the prospective release of clinical reports of trials, which are submitted by sponsors to support marketing authorisation applications […]
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The BMJ Today: Climate change and conflicts of interest: the sound and the fury
“Fury as top medical journal joins the green bandwagon” fumed the Daily Mail last week, which took exception to The BMJ’s publication of an article that, in the words of […]
Desmond O’Neill: Sky disc and the marvel of ageing
One of the great challenges of hospital medicine is retaining a sense of the marvel of ageing after a busy night on general take. The sheer complexity of the frail, […]
Tony Waterston and Jean Bowyer: Teaching and learning about disability in the West Bank
“We want to improve the attitudes of nurses towards their patients.” This call from senior nurses at an Educating of Educators course in Ramallah (a Palestinian city in the central […]
Sharon Lewin: The challenge of infectious diseases
It was not so long ago that there was a broadly held belief that modern society had defeated the worst of the world’s most lethal infectious diseases, and that the […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—6 October 2014
NEJM 2 October 2014 Vol 371 1285 Here is a trial which had me taking my glasses off and scratching my bald patch. Why on earth should a drug company—in this […]
The BMJ Today: Neoliberalism and The BMJ
Has The BMJ fallen for neoliberalism? A rapid response to the latest opinion piece by our regular columnist Nigel Hawkes suggests that “the discredited Neoliberal Economic theories that are found throughout […]
Lucien Engelen: Flipping the coin from “for patients” to “by patients”
Although I still suspect my wife may have paid extra for a non-connected holiday home in the French Ardèche, it turned out pretty well to be honest. The first two days […]
Richard Smith: Improving health through the community in Tunisia
Tunisia, like all low and middle income countries, is having to respond to non-communicable disease after making good progress in reducing infectious disease and improving child and maternal health. Premature deaths […]
Juliet Dobson: Probably Nothing
Probably Nothing is a comic by Matilda Tristram about discovering that she had colon cancer when she was 17 weeks pregnant. The comic, initially published online and now as a […]