Another request for “urgent” reporting pinged into my inbox today. It is the third or fourth in as many days. At least two were asking for identical information from different […]
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Nataly Kelly: The value of a single word
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a word worth? It seems difficult to quantify. Yet, 30 years ago, a Florida hospital was faced with that […]
Julian Sheather: I want to be bipolar
Slouching around the internet recently I happened upon an article with a title that intrigued me – and one that I have shamelessly stolen for this blog. Where once the […]
Karyn Moshal on CHIVA Africa
In 2004, when the South African antiretroviral programme to tackle the HIV pandemic finally began, the concern turned to the management of children – the group that is always left […]
Alexander Romain on NHS sponsored homeopathy
NHS sponsored homeopathy is being financially strangled amidst the baying cries of clinicians. In the ritualistic chanting of “placebo” and “evidence based medicine” they gleefully recapitulate the paucity of evidence […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review – 13 September 2010
JAMA 8 Sep 2010 Vol 304 1073 “Adenocarcinoma of the pancreas is arguably the most challenging of human malignancies”, as the commentary on this study of adjuvant chemotherapy points out. […]
Research highlights – 10 September 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 […]
Neil Snowise: Medical breakthroughs…what would you choose?
If you had to choose the major medical breakthroughs of the last century, how easy would this be and what would you select? This was the challenge for the Royal […]
Richard Smith on banks and vulnerable people
Banks are probably now our most unpopular institutions, more so than estate agents, local authorities, and the Press Complaints Commission. So perhaps I shouldn’t kick them when they are down, […]
Olivia Roberts: UK public prefers WHO to Dr Who
You would think that Matt Smith and David Tennant, of popular television programme Dr Who, would have a few more fans in the UK than Dr Margaret Chan, director general […]