I’m about to spend two weeks in Nigeria and need antimalarial tablets, but it seems that the NHS cannot help me. If I come back with malaria, no doubt it […]
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Richard Lehman’s journal review – 4 July 2011
NEJM 30 June 2011 Vol 364 2483 The world of African emergency medicine is one which many noble British GPs have visited, but I alas am not of their number. […]
K M Venkat Narayan: Smoking Jordanian doctors
During a recent trip to Jordan a waiter at the international chain hotel I was staying at seated me at a table in the midst of several smokers. When I asked for a […]
Richard Smith: More on the United Nations meeting on NCDs
In September the United Nations will hold a high level meeting on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This is only the second such meeting that the UN […]
David Kerr: The mystery shopper
Working in supermarkets over the summer holidays can be an education for many an aspiring medical student as, to quote Henry James (and the News of the World newspaper), “all […]
Kirsten Patrick on the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP)
On 29 June 2011 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) collected a group of journal editors to introduce to us to, and get our views on, their fairly recently launched European […]
Tiago Villanueva: Barbara Starfield’s legacy
Primary healthcare gurus can’t compete with the ranks of top film or sports stars in terms of global notoriety, but Barbara Starfield, who died earlier this month in California aged 78, was one […]
Yasir Hameed: Power, fuel, food, and water shortages in Yemen
Nearly two weeks have passed since my last update here, and the situation in Yemen is still deteriorating rapidly. One of the most shocking reports I have come across said that power […]
James Raftery: Avastin, Lucentis, and NICE
A useful update was provided at a meeting this week sponsored by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) and Patients Involved in NICE (the National Institute for Health […]
David Pencheon: Future-proof hospitals? Go straight for future-proof systems…
Chris Ham’s article in last week’s Observer newspaper (“Politicians have ducked hard decisions on the NHS for far too long” Sunday 19 June 2011), and a news story in this week’s BMJ […]