Sport, medicine and royalty- what an eclectic mix, or maybe not. With some timely encouragement from HRH the Princess Royal, introducing the BMA conference Excellence in Health The Olympic ideal, mainstream […]
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Fiona Godlee: Where are all the women?
It’s only since taking on this job that I’ve noticed how few women speak at medical conferences. It seems to me that half the time I’m the only woman on […]
Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday’s person
Web 2.0—the social web—has the potential to improve global health greatly and to solve complex problems in health science—as it has already done in particle physics. I heard this message […]
Anne Caley: Patient consent
The first press event I attended as a BMJ Clegg Scholar was the launch of the General Medical Council’s new guidance for doctors ‘Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together,’ at the National Theatre, […]
Anne Caley: The Clegg Scholarship
This blog is about my time as a BMJ Clegg Scholar. The Clegg Scholarship gives medical students from around the world the opportunity to learn about medical journalism in a […]
Domhnall MacAuley: Big in Japan
Arriving in Tokyo, the signs and maps impenetrable, and rush hour a torrential flood of determined faces in swirls and eddies through the halls of the seven level central station. […]
Anna Donald: Why cancer is humbling
I’ve promised to explain why advanced cancer is humbling. There are many reasons. […]
Liz Wager: Would you review a paper by your ex-husband?
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the revelation (from recently released official papers) that the UK Government wanted to suppress findings about the dangers of smoking because it was worried […]
Anna Donald: Science, a wonderful, slow tortoise
A few days ago, my scans came back. My liver looked like a Jackson Pollock painting. Blobs, blotches, lines everywhere. Three weeks ago, it had looked quite neat. No longer. […]
Harvey Marcovitch: Saving polar bears and children
I had no idea of what it meant when I was asked to put myself up for election as a director of the Council of Science Editors . Since this […]