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Deborah Cohen: Update on antibiotic susceptibility test discs investigation
Last week a BMJ investigation reported that one of the world’s leading producers of diagnostic tests has been falsely marketing one of their products. Oxoid, owned by US diagnostics giant […]
Krishnan Ganapathy: Homo mobilicus – the homo sapiens of tomorrow
When Marty Cooper (whom I had the privilege of meeting) invented the cell phone in 1973, he could not have foreseen that he would be disproving Charles Darwin’s hypothesis. According […]
Richard Smith: Will entrepreneurs save the NHS?
All the political parties and those at the top of the NHS see an important role for entrepreneurs in the latest version of the health service. Those labouring within the […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Politics, health checks, and well meant good intentions
When a politician speaks with passion and commitment about social inequality, I listen. When it is the chairperson of the Committee for Health, Social Services, and Public Safety, I listen […]
Partha Kar: The consultant of the future
Type “define an NHS consultant” into Google and you’ll get more than 5 million results—none of which actually crystallises what the role involves. It’s a term that’s ever more shrouded […]
Desmond O’Neill: Lessons of the Francis Report are not just confined to the NHS
One of the most striking theatre productions I have ever witnessed was a riotous Polish play called Birthrate, the highlight of the 1981 Dublin Theatre Festival. Starting with a stage […]
Katy Cooper: NCDs, MDGs, and SDGs – latest update
This is an update of an earlier blog (15 November 2012 – here), which described what is happening around the global framework on non-communicable diseases, and how NCDs link into […]
Marge Berer: Depo Provera
The recent news that Ethiopian Jewish women had been given the injectable contraceptive Depo Provera without their knowledge or consent awakened a strong feeling of déjà vu for me. When I […]
Penny Campling: How will shame play out in the wake of the Francis report?
One word that keeps being used in response to the Francis report into failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is “shame.” Interestingly, it seems to be used more than “guilt” and […]