Last week’s riots took place across different nights in multiple cities and involved no one ethnic group. The reasons behind them are complex and a unifying theory is likely to […]
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Douglas Noble on the riots
The recent riots in London and across the UK have been an awakening for many to realise the deep seated social problems in post modern British society. The right look […]
Richard Smith: Zero based healthcare
You may have heard of zero based budgeting where an organisation starts from the assumption that nothing that was in last year’s budget will automatically be in next year’s and […]
Domhnall MacAuley: The silence next door
The sun streams in my surgery window overlooking the garden next door. For years our neighbours were older and the garden neatly manicured. The only sounds of summer were the […]
Peter Lapsley: Effecting behavioural change
It seems unlikely that many of the BMJ’s readers are able to listen to Radio 4 between 8.30 and 9.00 am on a weekday, and even less likely that they […]
Vasiliy Vlassov: Russian women’s reproductive rights in grave danger
According to current Russian law, women can ask for an elective abortion up until 12 weeks of pregnancy. Between 12 and 22 weeks, an abortion can only be made on the basis […]
David Kerr: The dark side of insulin
It has been a strange few weeks for insulin. This year is the 90th anniversary of its discovery and in everyday clinical practice, insulin still remains “a force of magical […]
Andrew Burd on Chinese medicine and Chinese trains
A few weeks ago I took the family on a trip to Wuhan. We went with another family and a family friend, so it was a jolly party that crossed […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 15 August 2011
Arch Intern Med 8/22 Aug 2011 Vol 171 The order in which I place these journals does not reflect merit, but dates back to 1998 when I first made some […]
Research highlights – 12 August 2011
“Research highlights” is a weekly round-up of research papers appearing in the print BMJ. We start off with this week’s research questions, before providing more detail on some individual research […]