Yathukulan Maheswaran: Medical professionals must remain vigilant to the dangers of misinformation
Misinformation is a threat to everyone and we all have a role in challenging it at work and beyond, says Yathukulan Maheswaran […]
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Paul Garner: For 7 weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion
Paul Garner, professor of infectious diseases at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, discusses his experience of having covid-19 […]
An exit strategy for relaxing physical distancing measures to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2
Governmental officials worldwide are currently evaluating exit strategies to end or reduce present restrictions on social interactions limiting the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19. Governments must balance […]
Now is not the time to undermine the World Health Organization
Let’s find a solution rather than a culprit, particularly when it comes to the WHO and the coronavirus crisis, say Jose Martin-Moreno and John Middleton […]
Clinicians should consider the evidence in difficult decisions about resuscitation
The covid-19 pandemic has led the General Medical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council to remind clinicians that decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation—and by implication, other resuscitation procedures—should be based […]
Women’s safety must be a priority for IVF in the post lockdown era
The current outbreak of covid-19 has affected every aspect of our lives, particularly health and social care services. When the lockdown was announced, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) […]
Adeline Goss: When it’s dangerous to become a doctor
The physicians introduced into hospitals this spring and summer will have more asked of them than any newly graduated doctors in a generation. Let’s make sure we support them, says […]
A novel coronavirus, a novel disease, and a novel approach to intensive care medicine
Dan Martin reflects on his experience of working in ICU during the covid-19 pandemic […]
Tara Lamont: Learning from social sciences at a time of crisis
I remember being at an academic gathering of healthcare social scientists a few years back. A lot of withering talk of the dominant paradigm of biomedical research and the limitations […]
William Cayley: The new normal
It is beginning to sink in that this societal upheaval is not just a temporary “time out,” writes William Cayley […]