JAMA 24-31 July 2013 Vol 310 It’s possible that you want to read about US physicians’ views on their role in cost containment, and about rates of breast cancer survival […]
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Most Europeans support organ donation, but there is still a need for more organ donors, according to several experts at a recent international meeting on donation and transplantation, organized in […]
Michael Barry: Aligning incentives to support shared decision making in the United States
Shared decision making (SDM) between clinicians and patients is riding high in clinical and health policy circles in the United States. SDM is featured in several sections of the Affordable […]
Chandni Maheshwari on volunteering for “Doctors for You” in the Uttarakhand flood affected areas
When television channels started beaming images of the Uttarakhand flash floods the magnitude of nature took me by a surprise. Thousands were displaced, and infrastructure worth millions was damaged. The […]
Jane Parry: Why are we so resistant to calling sugar the enemy?
Sparing developing countries the fate of obesity associated diseases that plague the developed world is currently one of the most pressing global public health issues. Before we export wholesale the […]
William Cayley: Continuity—in and out of hospital in the US
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Mary E Black: Do we really need to have so many meetings?
It’s my fourth month working for public health in the local authority and I’ve had yet another request to join a stakeholder meeting. This time it’s from NHS England to […]
Jen Gunter: The great Kate wait is a lesson for maternal health providers and pregnant women alike
The press and much of the world, or so it seems, has been on edge waiting for the Duchess of Cambridge to go into labor and finally that day has […]
From the BMJ archive: Medical implications of the Taser
On 8 July it was reported that a man died in Manchester after police hit him with a Taser shot. According to the BBC, this death is “the tenth to […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—22 July 2013
JAMA 17 July 2013 Vol 310 270 There are three papers in this week’s JAMA which would make good teaching material for a course on critical reading. The first is […]