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K M Venkat Narayan: India’s Emerging Demography: A Tale of Two Health Challenges
Given the sheer size and complexity of the country, it is always impossible to talk of India in any singular or modest sense. India has the largest population of young […]
Tony Waterston and Jean Bowyer on doughnut rounds, children’s rights and house evictions
Ten years after the inception of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories, the third 2 year cycle is about to start. […]
What we’re reading – 26 February 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 […]
Georg Röggla: on the new European Research Council president
The European Research Council (ERC) unanimously elected Prof. Helga Nowotny, an eminent social scientist, as the new ERC President on February 19th, 2010. Helga Nowotny is currently the ERC’s vice-President. […]
Douglas Noble on checklists
I remember as a medical student when the Rockall score for GI bleeding came into common practice. As with all checklists and tick box style scoring systems, well thumbed photocopies […]
Behrooz Astaneh: the culture of compliments
In a recent blog about guest authorship I mentioned that training plays a crucial role in persuading researchers to follow ethical guidelines in medical publishing. It is true that many researchers do […]
Birte Twisselmann: Learning to tweet
I have never thought of social networking tools as something that might be terribly relevant for me. I cancelled my Facebook account because the number of ensuing emails annoyed me. […]
Richard Smith: What to say to a food company
What should you say to a major food company if asked to speak to its senior managers? A friend of mine, a cardiovascular epidemiologist, received such an invitation and emailed […]
Olivia Roberts: Somaliland: no aid, no problem?
Somaliland doesn’t exist, officially. But a new paper suggests that there is still a lot for the international development community to learn. Somaliland has been unrecognised under international law since its […]