Senior citizens and first year textile undergraduates getting together to make material flowers is not something that you would associate with the BMJ. Much more Craft magazine, surely? This was […]
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Tracey Koehlmoss on being policy makers in our own lives
I am writing to you not from Bangladesh but rather from the Institute of Medicine’s workshop on country-level decision making for control of chronic diseases being held from 19-21 July […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 25 July 2011
JAMA 20 July 2011 Vol 306 277 As I try to write, much of America lies torpid in a heat wave approaching 40 degrees centigrade. This issue of JAMA, like […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Waste, uncertainty, post publication peer review and the unintended consequences of asking a question
Irrelevant, misdirected, inappropriate, or unnecessary. Reading the list of contents in some lesser known journals or abstracts at a conference, you wonder what some studies really add. Sir Iain Chalmers […]
Desmond O’Neill: First night of the Proms
It is a sure sign of the ever diminishing pool of memorable acronyms that even the most treasured of ceremonial events can be hijacked for the basest of clinical motives. […]
Deborah Cohen on improving health reporting
There are a few ways to improve health reporting. One is doing as some science commentators do: lumping all journalists together in a totally “unscientific” way sniping and sneering to […]
Research highlights – 22 July 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 […]
Richard Smith: In the goldfish bowl with GPs—part 2
In my last blog I described my time in a goldfish bowl with some 35 GPs on a leadership course—how the process worked, and what I learnt about myself, and […]
Grania Brigden: Capreomycin shortage – symptom of a bigger problem in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Of the 9.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases diagnosed each year, approximately 5% are multidrug resistant (MDR). MDR-TB treatment is demanding for patients, requiring a complex treatment course lasting 18–24 […]
Behrooz Astaneh: Authorship criteria – use or abuse
A recent post on WAME forum about authorship criteria shows that it is still a challenge, even though standard guidelines were released a few years ago by the International Committee of Medical […]