All of us have a survivorship bias in regard to how we were trained in medicine
The change precipitated by covid-19 has shown us that just because it’s “always been done this way”, doesn’t mean it should be, or has to be […]
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Alex Nowbar’s journal reviews—27 November 2020
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
Keerti Gedela: Who is valuable in academia? Reassessing priorities and purpose
The covid-19 pandemic has made all working people reassess their priorities and purpose, and for many these have now changed. This is particularly true for people in caring roles, and […]
Roger Wilson: Patients should be involved from the outset in creating plain English summaries of research papers
I am a writer and journalist. I explain things. I listen, I question, I check. I have been involved with cancer research as a patient for 20 years now. One […]
NICE’s guideline on the management of people with an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: an unexplained U turn
In March 2020, as the covid-19 pandemic was escalating in the UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its delayed National Guideline (NG156) on the management […]
Peter Doshi: Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% effective” vaccines—let’s be cautious and first see the full data
Only full transparency and rigorous scrutiny of the data will allow for informed decision making, argues Peter Doshi […]
Welcome back to global health, America: An open letter to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
The pandemic is deepening existing inequalities, including gender inequality, say Roopa Dhatt, Samira Ouedraogo, Sarah Hillware, and Ann Keeling, but the US can help build a more equal world […]
The government’s spending review is an opportunity to commit funding to improve early diagnosis of cancer
Every day in the UK, around 450 people die from cancer. This number doesn’t appear on daily news bulletins. This number is not inevitable. We started volunteering for Cancer Research […]
Speaking up against bullying in the patient community
Patients are not alone—bullying happens in all areas of life Many of us are aware of school campaigns against bullying, protecting school aged children from harmful experiences that pose life-long […]
Ann Robinson’s research reviews—20 November 2020
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals […]