Back in my early days as a radical medical student (a small, select group in the Belfast of the early 1970s) one of the international figures I admired greatly was […]
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Paul Glasziou: Should we abandon the term “hypertension?”
Disease labels have an aura of authority and permanence. But definitions can drift considerably over time changing who is and is not classified as “diseased.” For hypertension, Greene [1] has […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—5 November 2012
NEJM 1 Nov 2012 Vol 367 1677 Cancer screening campaigns—getting past uninformative persuasion is a topical subject on both sides of the Atlantic. Nobody writes better about it than Steven […]
Khalid Ali: Amour—an award winning film talks candidly about life after a stroke
A new film, Amour, which deservedly won the Palme d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, throws a new light into the harsh realities of the lives of stroke patients […]
Tiago Villanueva: What’s new in European primary care research?
The University of Antwerp, Belgium, recently hosted the 75th meeting of the European General Practice Research Network. Paul Van Royen, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at […]
Pat Hughes: Non communicable disease and the first 1000 days of life
The links between the global challenge of non communicable disease (NCD) and what happens to people in the first 1000 days of their lives are not new but are gaining […]
Anna Allan: Acclimatisation to the NHS
My fellow FY1s and I have been flying solo for over three months now. It has been filled with “firsts.” First day of work, first night shift… first pay cheque. […]
Muir Gray: Setting objectives for systems of care
Read the rest of this series of blogs about designing and planning population based systems of care here. Step 3: Setting objectives Having defined the scope of the system and […]
Gabriel Scally: If it isn’t controversial it isn’t important
A standing ovation greeted every paper delivered at one of the sessions I attended at the American Public Health Association annual meeting in San Francisco. I thought the first paper […]
Nicola While: Time is running out for EU health legislation
The end of 2012 is the unofficial deadline for all legislative proposals to be published if EU decision makers stand any chance of finalising debate on the issue before the […]