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Pressure on critical care facilities in covid-19 patients in India
The covid-19 pandemic has presented multiple challenges to healthcare systems around the world. We want to highlight the difficulties in Kerala, India, of providing palliative care for patients with pre-existing […]
NICE’s guideline on the management of people with an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: an unexplained U turn
In March 2020, as the covid-19 pandemic was escalating in the UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its delayed National Guideline (NG156) on the management […]
Trudi Seneviratne: Collaborative support from healthcare professionals is vital in helping parents with the early years
New report highlights importance of early years for children’s physical and mental wellbeing—we must listen We’ve all heard it before—being a parent can be the most rewarding, not to mention […]
Coping with medicines after hospital discharge—the “belt and braces” approach
We must support our patients to plan what they will do with their medicines after they leave the hospital, writes Justine Tomlinson […]
Covid-19 could prompt an end to our continued betrayal of childhood
Many children in wealthy countries such as the UK face huge yet avoidable adversities, risk factors for toxic stress and lifelong physical and mental health problems. Al Aynsley-Green notes how […]
Peter Doshi: Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines—let’s be cautious and first see the full data
Only full transparency and rigorous scrutiny of the data will allow for informed decision making, argues Peter Doshi […]
America’s public health experts must engage communities in the covid-19 response
The incoming administration has to help Americans understand that their survival—both economic and physical—depends on individual actions, write Krutika Kuppalli and colleagues […]
Welcome back to global health, America: An open letter to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
The pandemic is deepening existing inequalities, including gender inequality, say Roopa Dhatt, Samira Ouedraogo, Sarah Hillware, and Ann Keeling, but the US can help build a more equal world […]
Chris Thomas: It’s time to save our medical research charities
The prime minister has made clear that the life sciences are at the heart of his vision for the country. In his manifesto, he said he’d make the “UK a […]