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Helen Jaques: Exposing junior doctors’ working hours

March 26, 2013

Back when Christian Jessen of Embarrassing Bodies fame was training as a junior doctor, he regularly worked dangerously long hours. But then in August 2009 the European Working Time Directive […]

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Helen Jaques: Expect fireworks over the new GP contract

October 25, 2012

As a seasoned hack, it’s not often that I’m shocked by medical workforce news. The pensions ballot and industrial action by doctors earlier this year was one point—I genuinely didn’t […]

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Helen Jaques: Industrial action live blog

June 21, 2012

Welcome to the BMJ’s industrial action live blog. Today doctors across the UK will be taking industrial action for the first time in nearly 40 years to protest against changes […]

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Helen Jaques: NHS pensions: the saga continues

December 21, 2011

One story has dominated my first year as news reporter for BMJ Careers: pensions. And what a compelling story it has been.  The issue kicked off way back in March […]

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Helen Jaques: Radiation – good or bad?

November 17, 2010

Radiation has received a mixed press since the discovery of x rays 115 years ago. Wilhelm Roentgen’s exciting new finding was initially thought to be beneficial for health and was […]

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Helen Jaques: Evidence and policy making in public health

October 22, 2010

“Should evidence always dictate policy?” This was the key question at a recent debate at the Royal Society of Medicine organised as part of the Battle of Ideas, a festival […]

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Helen Jaques: Reporting from the front line of research

June 9, 2010

Monday morning. Wake up, drag yourself into town . . . and spend 45 minutes or so in a magnetic resonance imaging machine. That’s how I spent my Monday morning […]

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Helen Jaques: To BSc or not to BSc?

April 14, 2010

As a profession, doctors seem very fond of adding letters after their name: MB BS, BChir, MRCP, FRCS, MRCOG… the list goes on. So you’d think medical students would be […]

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Helen Jaques: Measuring the health of science journalism

April 8, 2010

Last week I attended an event on the state of science journalism called “Science in the media: rude or ailing health?”  Rather than a discussion on how science is being […]

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Helen Jaques: New publishing models at the BMJ Editors’ seminar

March 12, 2010

This week at the BMJ Editors’ seminar I heard about two innovative new publishing models: Nature Communications from Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and PLoS Currents from Public Library of Science. Nature […]

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