Earlier this year, The BMJ’s editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was one of 50 senior UK medical professionals to sign a letter in the Times newspaper about the health benefits […]
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Suchita Shah: Malaria in the Little Novels of Sicily and why we need literature in medicine
“And you feel you could touch it with your hand—as if it smoked up from the fat earth, there, everywhere, round about the mountains that shut it in, from Agnone […]
William Cayley: Facing uncertainty
The first case of Ebola in the United States, a cluster of cases of “acute neurologic illness with focal limb weakness of unknown etiology in children,” and ongoing concern over […]
Abdullah Aljoudi: Are you fit for the journey of a lifetime?
“Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to God by people who are able to undertake it.” Quran 2:97. On Friday 3 October, over three million Muslims from more […]
Wim Weber: EU seminar on access to trial data
On 29 September, more than 150 delegates showed up to attend the “Transparency and public health” seminar, organised by the European ombudsman and held at the European Parliament in Brussels, […]
The BMJ Today: A new era in transparency
A new era in openness and transparency—and arguments over data—has begun with the publication of the first tranche of data made available under the US’s Sunshine Act. The act makes all […]
John Middleton: The “Hospital of the Future” comes to the West Midlands
On 14 July this year, the chancellor of the exchequer announced the go ahead for the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital (MMH) in Smethwick, serving the people of West Birmingham and […]
The BMJ Today: Conflicting interests
As politicians enjoy a glass or two of the hard stuff during this week’s Conservative Party conference, they may like to find time to read a BMJ research paper on […]
Gavin Yamey et al: Our hunches on how to tackle humanitarian disasters can cause harm
It seemed, on the face of it, to make a lot of sense. It seemed intuitively the right thing to do. When the Indian Ocean tsunami struck on 26 December […]
Anne Forshaw and Rowena Merritt: How can we increase primary care access for patients from disadvantaged groups?
Disadvantaged groups of the population tend to have low rates of access to primary care, yet have a greater incidence of chronic diseases. Earlier and more frequent visits to a healthcare […]