The recent meeting of the Cambridge Health Network on dementia swung between pessimism and optimism, reflecting perhaps the national feeling. Dementia, said several speakers, is where cancer was 30 years […]
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Gaurav Gulsin, Sachin Gupta, Mostafa El Dafrawi: Read it and weep
In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on keeping up to date with the current scientific literature. To practise evidence based medicine, we have to constantly read and […]
Martin Carroll: Time is running out to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
To many observers in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) seemed to herald a new era in efforts to improve the lives of those living with poverty, disease, and hunger. […]
Stephen Ginn: Living in emergency
The RSM’s Global health and human rights film club launched on 8 September 2011 with a screening of director Mark Hopkins’ Living in Emergency. Filmed in the war zones of […]
Bob Roehr: Methamphetamine use drives HIV infections among gay Thais
One in 10 gay and bisexual men aged 18 to 21 became infected with HIV during their first year of enrollment in a cohort study in Bangkok. The rate of […]
Richard Smith: Clinicians support a review of mammography
Five weeks ago I wrote about the difficulty I was having in finding somebody to speak in favour of mammography at a conference on controversies in breast cancer. I feared […]
David Pencheon: Climate change and health – let’s get professional
I am still proud to be a doctor. This used to be because I looked up to inspirational mentors, tutors, and role models. I still do, although my inspiration is […]
Tony Delamothe: The spoken word
I spent Friday afternoon at three sessions on The Spoken Word at King’s Place, London. The first featured the editor of the New Statesman and a stand in for the […]
Peter Lapsley: Misleading media
Surveys regularly show that whereas (approximately) 80% of people who have not used the NHS in the previous five years believe it to be dreadful, 80% of those who have […]
Bob Roehr: The road to Bangkok
The lot of an ink stained wretch of a journalist, even one who writes for as illustrious a publication as the BMJ, is not filled with travel and expense accounts. […]