Few would disagree that organ donation and transplant surgery is a remarkable achievement. It is a selfless gift that unlocks the potential to cure disease or allay symptoms. But if […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review—3 December 2012
JAMA 28 Nov 2012 Vol 308 2097 Heart failure is a common process of dying which mostly affects people over the age of 75. Living with heart failure can be […]
Qian Li, Raoul Bermejo III, Kopano Mabaso: Young researcher’s perspectives on health systems research
Qian Li, West China Centre for Rural Health Research & Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. While we young researchers come from diverse backgrounds and careers, we share a common […]
Desmond O’Neill: Shaken and stirred
A key challenge of teaching gerontology in health sciences is to liberate ageing from the confines of later life and to view it as a continuous process across the life […]
Robin Gorna: Is an HIV free generation an achievable aim?
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day and this year all the talk is of tipping points and “ending AIDS.” On both sides of the Atlantic lobby groups are calling on their […]
Gitau Mburu: How communities have helped transform the global HIV response
As World AIDS Day approaches, let’s pause for a second to pay tribute to the tremendous efforts around the globe which have resulted in more than eight million people having […]
Paul Glasziou: How many journals do you need to read?
Do you regularly read Chronobiology International? No, me neither. But that was the source journal for the article we read at a recent GP journal club I attended in Perth […]
Grania Brigden: Children with TB—global interest at last
At last, tackling tuberculosis (TB) in children is on the international agenda. This year, for the first time, an estimate of the extent of TB in children was included in […]
Desmond O’Neill: The age friendly university
All innovation is characterised by many false starts, but occasionally an event feels like the real deal, a sure sense of a phase shift in our world. This was the […]
Muir Gray: Defining the pathway for population systems of care
Read the rest of this series of blogs about designing and planning population based systems of care here. Step 7: Defining the pathway The pathway is the route the patient […]