{"id":34195,"date":"2015-05-13T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=34195"},"modified":"2015-05-13T11:50:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:50:29","slug":"the-bmj-today-should-medical-journals-avoid-discussing-political-issues-that-have-a-bearing-on-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/05\/13\/the-bmj-today-should-medical-journals-avoid-discussing-political-issues-that-have-a-bearing-on-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMJ Today: Should medical journals avoid discussing political issues that have a bearing on health?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/05\/gaza_city.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34196\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/05\/gaza_city-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"gaza_city\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2377\">\u2022 Politics, medical journals, the medical profession, and the Israel lobby<\/a><\/strong>\u2013In July 2014, <em>The Lancet<\/em> published an \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(14)61044-8\/fulltext\">Open letter for the people in Gaza<\/a>\u201d from a group of doctors and scientists, decrying what was in their view Israeli military aggression against civilians in Gaza. Earlier this year, Reed Elsevier, publishers of <em>The Lancet<\/em> received a complaint signed by 396 physicians and scientists arguing that the journal was being used for \u201cpublication of deliberately false material which deepens polarization between Israelis and Palestinians.\u201d In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2377\">newly published editorial John Yudkin<\/a>, emeritus professor of medicine at University College London, explores the issues raised by these events. Is it inappropriate for medical journals to discuss political issues, even when these issues have a direct impact on civilian health? And is there a wider problem of coverage of the conflict in Gaza being stifled?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2575\">\u2022 NEJM reconsiders relationship with industry<\/a><\/strong>\u2013Mike McCarthy reports news that the <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> has begun exploring the relationship between industry and healthcare in a series of articles. In an editorial accompanying the series, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Drazen asks whether medical journals have made it too hard for researchers to write review articles and editorials. <em>NEJM<\/em>, along with many other medical journals including <em>The BMJ<\/em>, have introduced competing interests policies for authors which aim to mitigate the effects of possible industry bias. Reflecting on recent collaborations between pharma and academia to produce the Ebola vaccine, Drazen wonders whether the divide encouraged by journals between academic researchers and industry is in healthcare\u2019s best interests.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/05\/toomuchmed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/05\/toomuchmed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"toomuchmed\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2308\">\u2022 Choosing Wisely campaign comes to the UK<\/a><\/strong>\u2013\u201cThe idea that some medical procedures are unnecessary and can do more harm than good is as old as medicine itself.\u201d As Aseem Malhotra and colleagues discuss\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2308\">in an Analysis article published today<\/a>, the Choosing Wisely initiative was launched in the USA in 2012 to encourage conversations between doctors and patients about avoiding unnecessary medical tests, procedures, and treatments. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges have now launched Choosing Wisely in the UK, with partners including <em>The BMJ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/too-much-medicine\">\u2022 The BMJ\u2019s Too Much Medicine campaign<\/a>\u00a0will also continue to highlight the harms of medical overuse. In September, we will once again partner in the international scientific conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net\/\">Preventing Overdiagnosis<\/a>, this year hosted by the National institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Navjoyt Ladher<\/strong> is a clinical editor, <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Politics, medical journals, the medical profession, and the Israel lobby\u2013In July 2014, The Lancet published an \u201cOpen letter for the people in Gaza\u201d from a group of doctors and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/05\/13\/the-bmj-today-should-medical-journals-avoid-discussing-political-issues-that-have-a-bearing-on-health\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bmj-today"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The BMJ Today: Should medical journals avoid discussing political issues that have a bearing on health? 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