Having been sacked from his position as the chief UK government drugs advisor Professor David Nutt may today be reflecting on the precarious position of anyone who seeks to advise […]
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Richard Smith: The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals
Something has just happened that will almost certainly end the tyranny of impact factors and may well mark another step towards the extinction of most scientific journals. Did you notice […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Exercise is medicine
Fergie lost it with the referee. The Manchester United manager’s public criticism of the referee’s fitness in their recent match against Sunderland made headlines. Although subsequently making a personal apology […]
David Pencheon: We face a SSTEEEP learning curve
If the health service takes environmental, social and economic sustainability seriously, it is amazing how many co-benefits there are – for the health of individuals, for the health of the […]
Tom Nolan on what every doctor should know about the swine flu vaccine
The H1N1 vaccination programme is underway in the UK and many other countries across the globe. In Sweden a million people have already been vaccinated. One swine flu vaccine manufacturer, […]
David Payne: Open access and the editor’s choice
A management consultant friend confessed last week that despite advising many media company clients about their digital strategy, he had little interest in Web 2:0 and social networking, shunned the […]
Siddhartha Yadav: My first conference as a speaker
The adrenaline rush was unbearable. I could feel my palms sweating. When I tried to clip the microphone on to my coat, my hands were trembling. Eager looking eyes of […]
Richard Smith: We don’t know what to eat
WHO is currently setting priorities for research in chronic or non-communicable disease, and generally the first research question is “Will what has worked in rich countries work in low and […]
Harvey Marcovitch: a flea-market hunter-gatherer
BMJ bloggers are in the habit of going to exotic places to listen to exciting lectures. In my time I’ve done my share of all that but a few weeks […]
John Coggon: Can a conscience dictate?
If I asked a physiologist to show me where her conscience is, I’m fairly sure she’d not be able to. Yet, it seems, a great many doctors appeal directly to […]