JAMA 24 Nov 2010 Vol 304 2245 It’s a pleasure to start the week with a first class well-conducted study with a clear outcome that will benefit patients. The benefit […]
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Julian Sheather: What’s wrong with addiction?
Middle-aged; mid-life; mid-career. Party to the blessings – and the curses – of a young family. A sense that some things have been achieved, some are still to be achieved, […]
Research highlights – 26 November 2010
“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 […]
Daniel Palazuelos: Whose community is it anyway?
There is no magic formula for how to work with communities in a way that perfectly balances power sharing with meaningful change.[1] Many of the experiences that I have had […]
Richard Smith: The moment is coming for chronic disease
After years in obscurity, those of us concerned about chronic disease are about to have our moment in the spotlight—at the United Nations High Level Meeting in New York next […]
Louise Kenny: Thanksgiving
It is a joy to be back in Guatemala amongst staff and friends at the hospital and in the town of Santiago. I have fallen straight back into old habits of […]
Tracey Koehlmoos: Murmur of methodological tension at the Symposium
The First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research ended on a crescendo of upbeat promise on the 19th of November, but amid all of the excellence of organisation, content, energy […]
Domhnall MacAuley on sports medicine’s top ten
Sports medicine’s top ten. The keynote speaker had to drop out – could I give a talk about the top papers in 2010 at the UK sports and exercise medicine meeting […]
Jeffrey Aronson: 6/60 Vision: Celebrating the BNF and BNFC
Thursday 18 November. To BMA House to celebrate the publication of the 60th issue of the British National Formulary (BNF) and the 6th issue of its paediatric counterpart, the BNF […]
Richard Smith: We need more Tweeters
Far too few people Tweet. I’ve just been teaching a class on getting published in Buenos Aires, and only one of 60 researchers Tweeted. “Writing and publishing the paper,” I […]