Martin McKee: Theresa May is right. “No deal is better than a bad deal” …. for the European Union
The impact of a “no deal” on the NHS and medical research will be immediate […]
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Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The geniousness of Doug Altman
As the whole world knows, Doug Altman died this week. The news provoked a Twitter storm of large proportions, over 200 messages in five days, plus innumerable retweets. The significant […]
Aser García Rada: Migrant access to healthcare in Spain
After two and a half years, Mariano Rajoy´s conservative People´s Party (PP) government in Spain has partially amended their irrational decision to exclude undocumented migrants and other groups from public […]
David Oliver: Minding our language around care for older people and why it matters
I love to plough through the newspapers, with radio or TV news on in the background. My enjoyment can be punctured by annoyances. Recurring candidates for this personal “room 101” […]
Elizabeth Loder: Has the American Board of Internal Medicine lost its way?
Elizabeth Loder examines the emergence of organized US physician opposition to revalidation requirements. Something remarkable is happening right now in American medicine. A unified physician movement has emerged that cuts […]
Richard Smith: Loneliness—the “disease” that medicine has promoted but cannot help
According to the Canadian psychologist Ami Rokach who has long studied it, “acute loneliness is a terrorising pain, an agonising and frightening experience that leaves a person vulnerable, shaken, and […]
The BMJ Today: Taking a global view of health
Listening to the news here in the UK this past week, you would find it easy to forget that there is a world outside this small island. But visit bmj.com […]
Jane Parry: Heads: Hong Kong babies lose. Tails: the formula companies win
It’s been a busy couple of years in Hong Kong for the international baby formula companies. As soon as the Department of Health announced it had set up a Taskforce […]
Richard Lehman’s journal blog—24 June 2013
JAMA 19 June 2013 Vol 309 2449 If you give live attenuated measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who are on immune suppressing treatment, are […]
Richard Lehman’s journal review—28 May 2013
JAMA 22 May 2013 Vol 309 2105 Viewpoints carry with them an offer of agreement or disagreement, and everything I write in these columns is based on that. I hope […]