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Roger Taylor on how to use data to improve healthcare
Don Berwick’s report on patient safety in the NHS, published last week, adds another viewpoint to the question of how we tackle poor quality in health services. It supplements the […]
Paul J Rosch: Cholesterol, cancer, and statins
Numerous studies of healthy people show that a low cholesterol concentration that has persisted for a decade or more is associated with an increased risk of cancer, and that elevated […]
Kailash Chand: How can we resource a 24/7 NHS?
The secretary of state for health in England Jeremy Hunt, has on numerous occasions expressed that he would like to see a seven day a week NHS, where patients get […]
Jonathan Leo and Jeffrey R Lacasse: A troubling definition of cognitive enhancement
Whenever studies documenting the rising use of stimulants for children in the Western world make headlines, the medical community goes through a significant amount of word twisting to address the […]
Liz Wager: Show us the data (part 2)
My last blog started with the observation that it’s impossible to investigate research fraud unless you have the raw data. While that may seem obvious, it leads logically onto another, […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—12 August 2013
NEJM 8 Aug 2013 Vol 369 507 A phase 1 study of a drug for an arcane cancer gets first place in the NEJM this week, and I think it […]
Mo Roshan: Raising awareness of type 2 diabetes
I often groan at the media’s handling of health issues. Often alarmist, it simply succeeds in raising concern levels enough to translate into unnecessary demands on my already overbooked clinical […]
Jonny Martell: Surviving burnout
Nothing much sprung to mind. A friend had just asked me an odd question, paraphrasing the mystical scholar Andrew Harvey, “what breaks your heart the most?” Was this an early […]
William Cayley: Resistance is futile (?)
Recent years have seen a lot of optimistic talk and writing about the “Patient Centered Medical Home”, the promise of population registries and electronic health records for preventing and managing […]