A couple of weeks ago my year-group had to plan and carry out an experiment as part of our teaching. I won’t bother going into details, but this experiment involved […]
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Wim Weber on the future of scientific publishing
On 28 and 29 May a small, but highly engaged audience appeared in Leiden for the 3rd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine. The printing press made […]
Peter Lapsley: 20/20 hindsight
It is a pity that I did not see Mark Haran and colleagues recent BMJ research paper, “Single lens distance glasses reduce falls in active older people” before my wife, Liza, and I […]
Richard Smith: Break the English NHS into regions?
“If a minister from England asked you about breaking the English NHS into regions, what would you say?” I asked this of a senior official in the Andalucian ministry of […]
Emily Spry on crowd control in Sierra Leone.
I haven’t written for a month, but that is certainly not because there hasn’t been anything going on at the children’s hospital in Freetown. Rather, it is the opposite. It is […]
What we are reading: 28 May 2010
In the BMJ editorial office, we often come across interesting articles, blogs, and web pages. We thought we would share these with you. Some are medical, some techie, and some […]
James Raftery: NICE – the beginning of the end—or a new beginning?
The coalition programme for government states: “We will create a cancer drugs fund to enable patients to access the cancer drugs their doctors think will help them, paid for using […]
Julian Sheather: Politics, genital mutilation, and the slow death of serious debate
Asked his opinion on the political issues of the day, Saul Bellow, the American novelist, would sometimes say that he was in favour of all the good things and opposed […]
Domhnall MacAuley on WONCA Part II
The picture screamed at me. It was of a ragged traveller child playing by a caravan at a halting site strewn with rubbish. It could have been from our practice. […]
Andrew Burd on burns research
I have just returned from Balikpapan in Indonesia, where I was speaking at the 14th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Indonesian Association of Plastic Surgeons. Indonesia is an amazing country […]