The provisional guidance from NICE on drugs for Alzheimers’ disease – donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine, and memantine – marks a dramatic shift from restricting access to those with moderate disease to […]
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Research highlights – 22 October 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 […]
Annabel Ferriman: Of magnetricity, hand dryers, and levitating frogs
It is not often you get to swig champagne with a swarm of superior British scientists at the Science Museum but on Tuesday I did just that. I was substituting […]
Ike Anya on awakening Nigeria’s sleeping giant
A major milestone passed in October this year, when Nigerians marked 50 years of independence. While our government celebrated, most Nigerians reflected on why the country had not fulfilled the […]
Tony Waterston: A Turkish tale of children’s rights
Istanbul by train sounds a long way, but it offers a much lower carbon footprint than flying and was also a richer experience. Not quite the Orient Express, and the […]
Richard Smith: Important study points towards a different future
In what I think is a very important BMJ paper, John Ioannidis and Fotini Karassa have shown that systematic reviews, the highest level of evidence, may be highly deceptive. We did, […]
Charlotte Wirl: Ageing and disease prevention
At the recent European Health Forum Gastein, a group of “young Gasteiners” blogged live from the talks. A selection of the blogs are on the BMJ blogsite. Tessa Richards, assistant […]
Jeremy Sare on Khat
There is no more baffled and frustrated group of law enforcers than the customs officers who oversee the massive and legal importation of khat into Britain. Although the plant’s […]
Joe Collier: Help to allow terminally ill patients to die
In the UK surveys show that the public at large believe that, within carefully delineated safeguards, doctors should be allowed to assist intellectually competent adults with terminal illness to die […]
Ana Rita Pedro on health literacy in Europe
At the recent European Health Forum Gastein, a group of “young Gasteiners” blogged live from the talks. A selection of the blogs are on the BMJ blogsite. Tessa Richards, assistant […]