This year’s BMA Medical Book Awards were a great success, portraying the high standard and wide-range of medical literature available and recognising the talent of the individual winners. 641 excellent […]
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Simon Chapman: Publishing horror stories: Time to euthanase paper based journals?
Every researcher has exasperating stories of the glacial pace of research publication. But as a former research journal editor of 17 years, I know that researchers’ ideas on what constitutes […]
Nell Crowden: More bravery needed among academics
The Clean Med Europe 2013 conference, , organised by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and Healthcare Without Harm, was much what I expected: buzzy conversation with brilliant contacts, inspiring speakers […]
Jane Parry: Heads: Hong Kong babies lose. Tails: the formula companies win
It’s been a busy couple of years in Hong Kong for the international baby formula companies. As soon as the Department of Health announced it had set up a Taskforce […]
Edward Davies: Health and politics: time to end the filibuster
The machinations behind the current attempt to defund Obamacare are politically complicated and have a prelude several years long. The evolving story on the federal budget and the rights and […]
Desmond O’Neill: Striking doctors and a cruel cut
The strike was so much more straightforward in 1987. I was then a trainee member of the Council of the Irish Medical Organization and our task was to change an […]
Isabella Laws: Innovative teaching—why hasn’t it come further?
Medical education has long seen the need for reform. The aged style of listening to a lecturer impart hours worth of highly technical scientific information at a rate which sees […]
Unni Karunakara: Médecins Sans Frontières’s decision to pull out of Somalia
Médecins Sans Frontières’s announcement on 14 August that we were closing all our medical programmes in Somalia sent shockwaves through political and humanitarian communities. It came at a time when world […]
Hazim Sadideen: Are surgical experts born or made?
There have been increasing levels of research around the concept of surgical expertise and its development. It’s an intriguing debate, a greater understanding of which will help to drive professional […]
Richard Smith: Medical journals: “a colossal problem of quality”
We knew that we had “a colossal problem of quality” when we began the peer review congresses in 1989, said Drummond Rennie, creator of the congresses, at the seventh congress […]