At first glance, three articles published this week in The BMJ appear to have limited relevance to medicine. One, written by an economist, discusses the challenges faced by demographers when […]
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Neal Maskrey: Tipping the balance towards individualised care
I don’t really get the horror genre. Even as a young boy, the flaky plots and a world working to different rules than the one I was becoming more familiar […]
The BMJ Today: Working as a GP is often a tall order
Any GP around the world who’s been in the game long enough is aware that one of the big challenges of the job is to manage patients’ daunting and often […]
James Raftery: Sofosbuvir for hepatitis C—moving to country specific prices
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has provisionally approved sofosbuvir (brand name Sovaldi) for the treatment of hepatitis C, a decision that has surprised some commentators given its high […]
The BMJ Today: In search of goodness
Mark Clarfield, an Israeli doctor, writes to his imagined Palestinian colleague. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a real Palestinian doctor living in Canada, writes back. As both yearn for peace, and attempt to […]
Samir Dawlatly: The slippery slope of general practice
I live at the top of a hill. One winter it snowed after a hard frost, just a thin layer of snow on top of the existing ice. The morning […]
Desmond O’Neill: Elective Dreams
With every elective student that joins our unit, I get a vivid flashback of my own electives. No matter how much water has flowed under the bridge since then, something […]
The BMJ Today: Tranexamic acid and inferring significance of treatment effects
Tranexamic acid is a synthetic analog of the amino acid lysine. It is used to treat or prevent excessive blood loss during surgery and in various other medical conditions. An […]
Aser Garcia Rada and Laura Reques Sastre: Fever after a trip to the Caribbean? Think of chikungunya
In Spain we are beginning to attend to a growing number of suspected cases of chikungunya—a disease most of us have never faced before—among patients coming from the Caribbean region. […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 August 2014
NEJM 14 August 2014 Vol 371 601 The usual wisdom about sodium chloride is that the more you take, the higher your blood pressure and hence your cardiovascular risk. We’ll […]