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Tracey Koehlmoos: Can developing country health systems prepare for complex disasters (the “zombie apocalypse”)?
In light of the recent blog by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that focused on household emergency preparedness for the zombie apocalypse and other disasters like […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Wayne Rooney’s hair transplant
Not anterior cruciate ligaments, metatarsals, or dodgy ankles – the sports medicine story of the week is Wayne Rooney’s hair transplant. Brave guy. Can you imagine the potential for abuse. Not […]
Martin McShane: Appeasement
The changes the government is proposing in response to the NHS Future Forum might satisfy most of the people for some of the time but their implementation immediately struck me […]
Guy Rughani: Thou Art therapeutic
“My parents called the police and had me sectioned. I thought: ‘I’m going to paint.’” David is a participant in “Thou Art,” a project which explores the effects of community-based […]
Andrew Burd on 21st century catches
A few weeks ago I received a parcel in the post. I unwrapped it with care and found it was a book. A very interesting book actually, entitled Oculoplasty – […]
A blog from a Shia doctor in Bahrain
When I went to the court room for a pre-trial hearing I was shocked by the state of the detained doctors. All of them looked the same. They were in […]
Guy Rughani: New hospital gallery honours Britain’s first female doctor
Tasteful up-lighting, shiny touch screens, and slick videos are what we now expect of the modern museum. Actually, they’re not museums any more – that’s far too stuffy. They’re “galleries.” […]
Sandra Lako: Why do children come to the hospital so late?
One night, not too long ago, four children died in the emergency room at the Children’s Hospital. Two of them had been sick for more than two weeks before coming […]
Richard Smith: Prevention of diabetes – from impossible to widely available in 30 years
In the 1980s it was conventional wisdom that type 2 diabetes couldn’t be prevented, said Michael Engelgau of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when I chatted to […]