This International Women’s Day, Global Health 50/50 launches a new report which, together with a year of tracking sex-disaggregated data on covid-19, has forced us to return to a basic […]
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Claudia Paoloni: Trends towards less than full time working must be embraced to ensure a sustainable medical workforce
The findings of the long awaited Dacre review into the gender pay gap in medicine came as no surprise to me. Nor did confirmation that the gender pay gap in […]
Clare Wenham: Let’s recognise all women who have been caregivers during this last year
Let’s push governments to recognise the additional labour being undertaken, and to create meaningful gender mainstreamed policy change, says Clare Wenham […]
International Women’s Day: It’s not who we are, but what we bring that should make the difference
This International Women’s Day comes at a unique and stressful time for all healthcare workers. Many may be thinking of leaving the profession and those who remain will need strong […]
John Ashton: covid-19 and public accountability—lessons from history
In his recent hard hitting editorial, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor at The BMJ, raises a series of important questions about the failure of the covid-19 pandemic response, not least in […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . N-of-1 studies and adverse drug reactions
Lovastatin is one of the words whose earliest citations in the Oxford English Dictionary are from 1986 (Table 1). Table 1. Biomedical words (n=17) in the OED for which the […]
Build back better? This budget was about business as usual…
On Wednesday 3rd March, Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave his second budget. From a health and social care perspective, Sunak’s two budgets as chancellor could not have […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—5 March 2021
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
School closures have had a huge impact on children’s futures
As schools across Europe are starting to reopen, these authors consider the longer term impact that schools closures have had on children’s wellbeing. […]
Understanding the spectrum of vaccine efficacy measures
Phase III covid-19 vaccine efficacy trials have returned encouraging results, exceeding the 50% efficacy threshold specified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Multiple […]