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Liz Wager: Can we immunise Brazilian science against fraud?
I’m in Sao Jose dos Campos, near Sao Paulo, Brazil, on the last leg of BRISPE 1 – the First Brazilian meeting on Research Integrity, Science & Publication Ethics, which […]
Julian Sheather: On spouses and the right to self-determination
I recently attended a seminar concerned with human rights violations of women forced or coerced into sterilisation, a joint undertaking by the Open Society Institute and the International Federation of […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 20 December 2010
JAMA 8 Dec 2010 Vol 304 2494 When cardiac troponin measurements came into use about a decade ago, it was immediately clear that they would change clinical practice and redefine […]
Martin McShane: Transition and the operating framework
I have a weekly teleconference with GPs from our emergent consortia. We set this up a while back to try and keep up with events, nix rumours and misconceptions and, […]
Helen Macdonald: Light reading over the festive season for the e-portfolio
I was considering what I might learn (if anything) over the Christmas period on a chilly cycle home last night. It has been an intermittent and nagging thought for some […]
Vasiliy Vlassov: In the name of Pirogov
Recently Russia celebrated the 200th birthday of Nikolay Pirogov. He is one of Russia’s most esteemed physicians, famous for his surgical skills and teaching, research in clinical anatomy, and especially […]
Des O’Neill: Christmas, South Park, health, and pluralism
When the largest teaching hospital in Dublin removed the Christmas crib from its atrium a few years ago, the response to the resulting public outcry suggested a timorous confusion about […]
Trish Groves: IDEAL innovation in surgery
No two operations are the same, not least because the surgeon starts each new one with some additional experience and knowledge gained during the previous one. But what counts as […]
Tony Delamothe: Illustrating the Christmas issue
Articles almost select themselves for the Christmas issue. The ones with any chance of publication get externally peer reviewed, and the survivors get discussed by our five person editorial committee. […]