Every three years or so I am lucky enough to attend our webhost HighWire’s spring publisher’s meeting at Stanford University in sunny California. This year was no exception—the meeting was […]
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Tiago Villanueva: Why does Brazil want to recruit doctors from Spain and Portugal?
I recently met up with a Portuguese friend who works as a researcher and doctor in New York. She has an immense passion for Brazil and told me she would […]
Readers’ editor: International research
The BMJ wants its research papers to help doctors make better decisions, which is why they are open access and free to view. But to deliver on the pledge our […]
Trish Groves: What does Tamiflu do, and how will we know?
Jonathan Nguyen-Van-Tam, virologist and researcher from the University of Nottingham, told a group of triallists and virologists last week “we must remember why we’re here—because of the controversies. The clinical […]
Trish Groves: Data sharing—making it real
The evidence base for current treatments has been built largely on aggregated results published in journal articles—articles that report trials initiated and sponsored by industry in order to get marketing […]
Jaana Ahlblad and Päivi Hietanen: Finnish baby boxes—could this joy be reproduced?
How can a cardboard box be a symbol of equality and express the importance of children? Easily, if it’s filled with soft cotton clothes for newborns and […]
Richard Smith: The BMA and homosexuality
I was once responsible for Family Doctor Publications, which were a series of booklets owned by the BMA, had titles like You and Your Bowels, and sold in huge numbers […]
Richard Lehman’s journal blog—24 June 2013
JAMA 19 June 2013 Vol 309 2449 If you give live attenuated measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who are on immune suppressing treatment, are […]
Richard Smith: Health and social care: lots of activity, little value
My mother is a wonderful woman but has no short term memory and drinks too much alcohol. When she’s sober her language is complex and her sense of humour magnificent. […]
Paul Laffin: Is men’s health the forgotten inequality?
The discussion of health inequalities can sometimes appear ubiquitous at local, national, or European level. We all know the massive impact that socio-economic factors can have on a person’s health […]