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 […]
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David Pencheon: Yes, we care.
There is a comforting logic in informing people before encouraging them to act. Take smoking. We may need to reframe the message depending on the person and what we suspect […]
Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos turns the light on for donors and non-communicable diseases in developing countries
Last week two very important persons from a big donor agency came to visit me in my office in Dhaka. These men have vast experience in global health, and the agency […]
Harry Brown: Online security and safety
It is amazing that in a relatively short period of time, many of us have come to rely so much, on the online world for some of our standard services. […]
Emily Spry: Doctors and Nurses on Strike
Here in Freetown, both the doctors’ and nurses’ associations have decided to go on strike with immediate effect. The strike has been precipitated by the Free Healthcare Initiative, which is […]
Georg Röggla: Intensive care and emergency medicine in Brussels
More than 5000 participants from about 90 countries all around the world took part at the 30th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels, Belgium from March […]
Patrick Basham: The DoH is wrong about cessation
I’m very disappointed in the section on cessation contained within the UK Department of Health’s new tobacco control strategy. There are several problems with the DoH’s ideas on cessation (and […]
Richard Smith: Should drug companies be free to give information to patients?
If a patient rings a drug company asking for information about one of the company’s drugs that he or she is taking, the company cannot answer. Companies are forbidden to […]
Julian Sheather on banned words
I know not whether to laugh or cry. Into my inbox has just popped an index prohibitorum, a list of words drawn up by the Local Government Association that must […]
Martin McShane: Control
Have some fun with Google. Type in “British Medical Association says yes.” It will give you about 650,000 results. Typing in “British Medical Association says no” gives you nearly 12 […]