The announcement on Monday of a covid-19 vaccine candidate feels as if it has changed the game in dealing with covid-19. According to a press release of the Phase III study, […]
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We must stop being polite about Test and Trace—there comes a point where it becomes culpable
Test and Trace is a disaster and doctors should voice outrage, not remain silent, argue these authors […]
Screening the healthy population for covid-19 is of unknown value, but is being introduced nationwide
On 9 September The BMJ reported leaked plans, called “Operation Moonshot,” to regularly screen households, cities, and then the entire UK population for SARS-CoV-2, at a reported cost of over […]
Modelling the pandemic—time is of the essence
Is the right kind of modelling guiding time-sensitive policy decisions on covid-19? […]
Tinaye Mapako: Medical students should not publish and perish
The pressure to publish during medical school encourages bad science, writes Tinaye Mapako, and fails to nurture research skills among students […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Nobel prizes in pharmacology—James Black
The biomedical words whose earliest recorded written instances are dated 1974 in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) are listed in Table 1; as before, pharmacological words contribute the single largest […]
Alex Nowbar’s journal review—6 November 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]
We all have a right to dignity in public health emergencies
Living through a public health emergency while avoiding breaches of human rights, requires a government to protect individuals regardless of their personal characteristics. Yet, this has not been the case […]
Billy Boland: How has New Zealand been so successful in managing covid-19?
Jacinda Ardern won the New Zealand elections by a “historic landslide.” The result in part has been credited to the success of her management of coronavirus in the country. The […]
Implications of the covid-19 pandemic on chronic care: global perspectives from people with type 1 diabetes
An international group of patient advocates living with type 1 diabetes share their perspectives about the impact of the pandemic on their countries, communities and personal health. […]