Telomeres are getting a lot of attention at the moment. At the 64th Nobel laureate meeting in Lindau two weeks ago, Elizabeth Blackburn (who won the 2009 Nobel prize in […]
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Chatting to fellow parents about summer holiday plans at a recent school event, I was asked by a mother whether I was worried about radiation levels in Japan. Both her […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—14 July 2014
NEJM 10 July 2014 Vol 371 107 I was very confused by this paper. It describes two trials of three drugs for premenopausal breast cancer with various permutations, and the […]
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Halima Khan: People powered health—one year on
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Liz Wager: The wrong sort of equality
A few years ago, I mused on Frank Wells’ observation that he’d never come across a female research fraudster. But now the RIKEN Institute in Japan has found Haruko Obokata […]
The BMJ Today: BMJ editor wins award, plus research on alcohol and heart disease
The office is abuzz today with news that The BMJ‘s editor in chief Fiona Godlee was named the Editor of the Year last night at the PPA (Professional Publishers Association) […]
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Jane Feinmann: Advancing forensic evidence one smartphone at a time
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